https://www.theguardian.com/politic...hallenge-by-97-year-old-ww2-veteran?CMP=fb_gu Following with interest as an Englishman living in the Netherlands. I wanted to vote as did many others in a similar situation.
Spot on...I'm proud of our ingenuity, tolerance (generally), compassion (NHS), humour and massive contribution to science, sport and the arts worldwide, i'm not so proud of our imperialistic past, arms dealing and getting involved in disputes and areas of the World that don't concern us (sometimes), Island mentality and misguided National superiority complex.
I only have the misguided National superiority complex when it comes to football. It’s our game, we should be up there at the top. We’ve caused a lot of this grief ourselves (although the others haven’t helped by being better than us for years), but that’s ok now.... because it’s coming home. #ich
I see the Android is trying to ride the back of national euphoria by congratulating them today and wishing them luck in the Commons... Expect a snap election if England actually win it.....
BBC News is broadcasting about the NHS not having enough money (yadda, yadda) and celebrating 70 years of the NHS (good thing.) They are broadcasting from a London hospital that has its own massive indoor "water garden" that makes Kew look normal. How much did that cost (and maintain.)
Features like that are fairly common in NHS hospitals and are in my view fully justified. When I started in the NHS in the 1970’s hospitals were dark and grim, not full of light and colour like most of them are nowadays. Patients and visitors do not need to feel oppressed by their surroundings and it would be tragic if the alt-right had their way and took health care back to the dark ages.
I was in a horendously grim 60/70s hospital the other day (The Western General in Edinburgh. There were 2 MND suffers in the waiting corridor. These patients will also have check-ups at the natty glass prism which is the Anne Rowling Pavillion (funding by JK Rowling) at the Edinburgh General across town. Its like two different worlds, at different times. I think what Imp is getting at, is less showpieces, and more of an overall standard. There's a vast dichomy of patients experiences in terms of the environments they endure or suffer, to ones which are pleasant/therapeutic.
Yeah, lots of people basically live in hospitals and can't leave for large periods so having recreational spaces with a change of scenery is pretty much a requirement for mental health. These things are also often sponsored so not even using NHS money.
People who completely exaggerate the minuscule part of the NHS budget spent on making places look and feel good.
Quite agree. Hospitals are very scary places. No-one goes to a hospital feeling good, whether you are the patient or a relative, anything to help relax you is good. Watering a few plants is not a major expense!
and yet Imps, as you have said, you are quite happy to accept money from the NHS for your children, which doesn't help them, and bank it?
And here is a nice article with some scientific and statistical evidence behind it: https://www.scientificamerican.com/article/nature-that-nurtures/
Agreed, I liked the Lance Armstrong analogy: nobody said to all the other competitors “prove you would have won if he hadn’t cheated”.
