Bush takes his bike on diplomatic trips and on his recent trip to China, went up against their Olympic team.
He’s not bad either, according to The Guardian’s cycling correspondent [hat-tip: Norm]:
the real give-away here is that his wristwatch is not a watch at all – it’s a heartrate monitor (HRM). Now that’s a real bike [...]
Well, some might be sisters.
Seven hundred nurses and other health workers plan to form their own company and sell their services to the NHS.
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The group – which includes dieticians and physiotherapists – hope to start Central Surrey Health by next April.
They would retain NHS conditions of employment, including pension rights, and continue working [...]
Ken Livingstone in an interview in somethingjewish.co.uk:
“I became an atheist by the time I was 11, I rejected all this mumbo-jumbo in favour of rational science.“
Ken Livingstone on MMR vaccine:
“It seems to me that a child of those months, just 14 months, is incredibly vulnerable,”
“I remember having all these jabs separately – often you had [...]
More dreadful news from Libya concerning the Benghazi AIDS case (via Mick Hartley):
Libyan medical experts for the prosecution claimed the infections resulted from intentional injections of the AIDS virus by the Bulgarian and Palestinian medical workers. The prosecution claims the defendants confessed to their crime.
Four of the foreign health workers told Human Rights Watch that [...]
On the 9th of November 2005 I bought The Daily Express because of the MMR story it led with. Normally, I’d cut out the interesting bits for my files, but this time I’ve put the whole paper in the file, next to the Private Eye MMR Special. It’s a classic of its type. [...]
Here’s a rather excellent letter to Private Eye (via the Drink-Soaked Trotskyite Popinjays for War):
In the Observer of 23 October, I mentioned gently and in passing your role in fuelling the great MMR mania. I opened the next issue and saw you had denounced me for drunken ranting. I re-read the piece and noticed you [...]
I am very jealous of this photograph of Snowdon.
Via Jo Salmon.
There are a number of good letters in The Guardian all concerned with Melanie Phillips’ article about MMR. Ben Goldacre’s has the best quote:
Melanie Phillips of the Daily Mail has misrepresented and attacked me personally: and so whatever the future may bring, I can die a rounded and happy human being.
More on Melanie Phillips [...]
One of the posts on this blog is going to be in a forthcoming book by Tim Worstall, called 2005: Blogged. Obviously I’m not going to tell you which post is in the book, since it would spoil the surprise and ruin a potential book sale for Tim.
One advantage this book has over my last [...]