by Ian Gmail | Nov 22, 2019
The life and many deaths of Britain’s top forensic pathologist This is the extraordinary, honest, very human, fascinating, gruesome, real-life, macabre and compelling autobiography of Dr. Richard Shepherd, a name most of us wouldn’t recognise. Very well written, it...
by Ian Ferris | Nov 11, 2019
Migrants helped by rescuers arrive on the Greek island of Lesbos after crossing the Aegean Sea from Turkey (AFP/Getty) Here’s an article from The Independent that caught my eye recently: Quote: EU parliament votes against improving search and rescue for refugees...
by Ian Ferris | Jan 8, 2019
Back in the summer I wrote about an unusual Commons statement made by the then Health Secretary, Jeremy Hunt, that some 450,000 women over a near ten year period had not been properly invited for their final breast screening and this error had potentially led to...
by Ian Ferris | Aug 1, 2018
The US is a foreign country and just because they speak English it doesn’t mean they’re exactly like us. I have travelled, worked with and played with people from many different cultures all over the world but the people I often found the most difficult to understand...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 13, 2018
In early June Jeremy Hunt became the longest-serving Health Secretary in British political history. His Commons statements are often delivered strenuously with fixed-smile authority, gripping the despatch box with both hands whilst rocking forwards and glaring...
by Ian Ferris | Jun 1, 2018
The Aberfan Disaster was the single most appalling and shocking tragedy in modern Welsh history The tragic events at Aberfan on the morning of October 21 1966, when 116 children and 28 adults died in a sea of slurry following the collapse of a coal tip above the...
