A very Happy New Year and Good morning everyone.
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For most people, there are obviously better things to do at this time of year than to watch television. However, for some this could be the only company or enjoyment that they will have over the entire Christmas/New Year holiday period. Spare a though then that for the past 10 days or so the standard of television entertainment has if anything been even worse than for the rest of the year. Numerous repeats and an almost endless diet of American sit com / soap type fill ins seeking to dumb down the viewer and batter them into a state of docile submission. We "Brits" also must take blame for this appalling diet of dross coming from the corner of our sitting rooms.Regular readers will know my opinion of "Strictly" (but I understand that there are those who love it), through various attempts at "comedy" which fails to raise even a smile in our house. The latest programme to bring about just a shaking of the head in stunned disbelief, was the latest cop thriller, "Bancroft".
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A series spread over four nights containing contrived multi story lines, implausible set pieces and leaving space and enough "loose ends" to justify another series. It certainly needs one, if only to explain to the viewer what took place in the first.
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‘Like Victorian London’... child food poverty sparks comeback of rickets.
Rickets was virtually eradicated in the United Kingdom more than 50 years ago but has seen a resurgence over the past few years as living standards have fallen rapidly and child poverty has increased
Read the full comment at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/we-must-not-allow-return-to-bad-old-days.html
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Meanwhile, back in Jersey a new proposal for an inter Island seaplane service between St Helier and Peter Port could be ready for next spring.Benjamin Hill, founder of Clear Harbour Airways, has been working on his plans for the past year and has been in discussions with Ports of Jersey, Ports of Guernsey and Customs, airport and government officials in both islands. We must hope that the new service will be more reliable than the service provided by the current ferry operator.
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Hospital car park charges are no more than a tax on sickness as the companies running the car parking "facilities" at our hospitals make £174 million in 12 months.They state that the profits are "ploughed back" into car park improvements and maintenance or into "patient care".However, there is little evidence to support this claim as the standards of car parking facilities and availability in our hospitals continues to decline as parking charges increase.
Read the full comment at: http://new-agenda2012.blogspot.co.uk/2017/12/the-scandal-of-hospital-car-parking.html.
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Nick Clegg is knighted.
For services to sell out and betrayal. For services to self interest and double dealing. For services to the abandonment of principle and trust. For duplicity and insincerity.
Arise Sir Nick.
Arise Sir Nick.
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With thousands of homeless people on our streets, with more than one million people using Foodbanks, with the near collapse of our NHS, with the crisis in housing growing worse by the day and all the other problems with our society, why are we so concerned about the colour of our passports?
Storm Dylan for New Years Eve in Scotland, N Ireland and northern England, another as yet unnamed storm for southern England Wales and the West country for New Years Day. Still no snow down south but don't hold your breath.
Have a nice week
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