"More fundamentally, we must ask why so much of official Britain, and especially its security establishment, keeps clinging for dear life to the United States, behaving for all the world like someone stuck in an abusive personal relationship"
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/mar/21/britain-us-special-relationship-trump-starmer
As you know, Simon, we have skin in that particular ‘over the pond’ game.
The fear and despair is real. Not least because the US is a currently a country that is perfectly content to kill off its own citizens with its insurance based health system.
Allow me to relate a case here:
A fully insured citizen with known cardiac issues is blue lighted to cardiac unit following an automated SOS alerted event. fully insured citizen with known cardiac issues is blue lighted to cardiac unit following an automated SOS alerted event.
This is the patient’s usual hospital where they are normally treated. Patient is tested multiple times/ways and discharged after 2 nights stay in the hospital.
@simon_brooke -2 edited correctly, apologies
A fully insured citizen with known cardiac issues is blue lighted to cardiac unit following an automated SOS alerted event.
This is the patient’s usual hospital where they are normally treated. Patient is tested multiple times/ways and discharged after 2 nights stay in the hospital.
Simon Brooke
Maggie Gordon