Observations on the world and its inhabitants
The NHS does not simply experience isolated organisational failures. When patterns recur across trusts, regions and decades, failure ceases to be an incident and becomes a structural feature of the system itself. Reviews, inquiries and investigations have become the NHS’s primary mechanism of self‑reflection. Yet these rituals rarely alter the underlying dynamics that created the ...
You need to thank one man for your current existence – a Russian. On September 26, 1983, Stanislav Petrov was the duty officer at Serpukhov-15, the Soviet command bunker for early warning satellites. Just weeks after serious NATO actions, his Oko satellite system reported that the United States had launched five intercontinental ballistic missiles from ...
Three hours into the Artemis 2 mission, the four bravest people on the planet found themselves staring at an amber fault light on a $30 million toilet. While NASA’s PR machine was busy broadcasting high-definition feeds of Earth’s crescent, mission specialist Christina Koch was reportedly being promoted to “Space Plumber” to deal with a “controller ...
Knowledge is supposed to be power as ‘they say’. Should uncomfortable knowledge be avoided? All women should read this article carefully. If you’re pregnant, particularly if you’re over 30 and expecting your first baby, there’s something crucial all such pregnant women in the UK need to know. A major investigation by The Sunday Times 09/11/2025 ...
Gather ’round, my fellow inhabitants of reality, for a tale from the land where medical logic apparently took a sabbatical. As someone who spends their days trying to untangle actual human brains, the recent shenanigans in Indian healthcare have left my own cerebrum feeling rather scrambled. It’s a masterclass in how, when it comes to ...
The topic is a very big one. It is about how people repeat actions that lead to futility. If you don’t know what futility means find a dictionary and read up. If you can’t read, what are you doing here? Futility But what is futility? It is not just a hopeless situation. My classic example ...
