I'm back! With a filthy cold, but newly cleansed ears, having had a doctor with a little machine suck out great gobbets of Beijing ear-shit yesterday. The world is a surprisingly noisy place. Should any of you have missed me...

Thanks to the wonders of medical science and an uncharacteristically prompt service from the NHS, I can now hear properly out of my right ear. Mrs Sane has nagged me for a long time about my bad hearing so a few months ago I went to see my GP about it.  A nice student doctor

In recent years, a perception has sprung up suggesting that those forced to claim benefits to survive, regardless of whether they may be living with a disability that prevents them working or are unable to obtain one of the few jobs available nowadays, must be no good lazy ‘scroungers’. I recall, whilst a junior doctor, hearing the somewhat unpleasant conversations of a couple of my co...

With his profane and aggressive manner, it had widely been assumed that Alastair Campbell was the inspiration for The Thick Of It's fearsome spin doctor Malcolm Tucker.

Is we all supposed to be equal or not? Like most gender differences in outcomes, there only ever seems to be concern when women are under-represented in fields like politics, and never any concern when men are under-represented for outcomes like bachelor’s degrees, master’s degrees, doctor’s degrees, graduate school enrollment, biology degrees, veterinary degrees, optometry

From Paul Mason’s Why it’s Kicking off Everywhere: When I meet Shafiq in April, he’s hosting a delegation of British trade unionists, sweating into their Tahrir souvenir t-shirts in the garden of the Doctor’s Union… ‘…My colleague favours an immediate...

The future of the NHS is at risk because private health care providers are failing to fulfil their duty of care to patients, a doctor has warned.

Doctor Who fans were given a spectacular early Christmas present yesterday, when a surprise screening at the BFI revealed that there were two more episodes in existence than everyone had thought there were. For all of us born after the ’60s, this is the first time we can see these performances from William Hartnell in Galaxy 4 and Patrick Troughton in The Underwater Menace – an excitin...

Casually perusing through a newspaper in the house of a friend, a piece about an erstwhile world renowned footballer caught my eye. Socrates Brasileiro Sampaio de Souza Vieira de Oliveira, concisely and universally known as Socrates, the former Brazilian soccer international, had died at the age of 57. In 1982 Socrates was the gifted player who captained the finest Brazilian team not to lift ...

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