Oh well. We all make mistakes in life. Theirs was to fall in love with the people and culture of a foreign land. And it will likely cost them their lives. At least they had many years together, and did what they wanted to do for most of those years. That may be a small comfort to their family.
I can't believe this latest Junior Doctors' strike is going ahead. I supported their action during the last knockings of the Sunak Government, because that Government would not even talk to the BMA. This Government has awarded junior doctors 22% - far more than nurses or any other public sector workers. Sadly it seems junior doctors have fallen into that old militant trap, of thinking their earlier strikes won them that 22%, and they now have a green light to strike again until they get everything they want. Well I'm 100% against their action this time. Go back to work.
I don’t believe that doctors have the same loyalty to the NHS as they had when they didn't have to pay their own tuition fees. I have been reliably told that there is a national crisis of them not wanting to see patients, and this tallies with the experience of my family and myself.
The foreign policy decisions of other democratic Countries have nothing to do with Donald Trump. Yet he threatens to scupper a trade deal with Canada if it recognises a Palestinian State. Will Trump now threaten the UK in the same manner? If so, I hope our Prime Minister has the backbone to stand up to him. It is our elected Government that decides UK foreign policy. Not a bully from beyond these shores. Vladimir Putin has learned that lesson, thanks to the steadfastness of Prime Ministers from Boris Johnson through to Keir Starmer. Now Donald Trump needs to learn it as well.
What a stunning, monumental waste of money. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/cj6yz77nlw4o A third runway at Heathrow. Estimated cost £49 billion. Surely a whole new two runway airport could be built in a good location for London, for that kind of money. And remember, this is the estimated cost before one spade has gone into the ground. By the time the project is completed the cost will have trebled to around £150 billion. That's almost guaranteed. It will make the cost of HS2 look like pocket money. For one extra runway. For £150 billion an entire National Care Service could be created. Or we could build four or five new generation compact Nuclear power plants. This Heathrow farce is something the Country cannot afford. The benefits will be negligible next to the unspeakable cost.
Or invest in my local unused airport - Manston , a mere hour away from London , problem being it now deals with people arriving in dinghies rather than planes
