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Random Thoughts for 8th September 2012
No comments on Random Thoughts for 8th September 2012This is the latest in my series of Random Thoughts posts with links, things found on the web and other stuff that has occured to me this week: Mark Thompson: An appeal for the NHS Some say that as a result of the coalition government the NHS is being “abolished” or “destroyed”. Mark is calling for evidence — “I am appealing for someone to prove to me that these claims about the NHS being destroyed…
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BBC gives unqualified praise to a Liberal politician
…just a shame the politician in question has been dead since 1898. Yes, this is BBC Two’s fabulous ‘The Great British Bake Off‘ whose mini in-programme historical documentary — which gives viewers a little break from the egg, flour, caramel, tears, competitiveness, and vanilla essence — this week highlighted the role of sweet-toothed W. E. Gladstone in lifting the Sugar Tax in 1874 and making good cheap sugar affordable to the working classes. This was an application of…
