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Having difficulty figuring out who should get your vote this May? I don't blame you!

Guardian article on Tories' plan to further privatise the NHS



Exposed: UKIP's NHS Privatisation Agenda



Lies, damned lies and politcal parties' policies

Paul Nuttall's deleted post: Why isn’t anyone discussing the NHS?

Paul Nuttall's deleted post: NHS Reform

I'd like to help him out:-

Russell Brand gets a figurative and well-deserved slap.



I have a sneaking admiration for John Lydon.



"Anarchists can't get anywhere without motorways."

How much feeling can a man pack into a song? More than I thought possible.

On the day that I heard Leonard Nimoy died, I feel it is fitting to record this famous Blade Runner moment, which is worthwhile in any case.

As removed from our regular lives as sci-fi tries to be, and is, the good sci-fi is nevertheless relevant to us, because it deals with the human condition. People are people in the twenty-first century, the eighteenth century or the twenty-fourth century. And people deal with largely the same issues in any of these time frames.

Today was, apparently, Nimoy's time to die. Despite his having given up smoking thirty years ago, the effects caught up with him and he died of a lung problem caused by this habit. You could say that smoking is illogical, as Spock surely would. I understand that Nimoy would have agreed.

Here in the clip below we get a wonderful and poignant treatment of mortality, life experience, regret and - perhaps - respect for life, that we should take in and cherish.