Casting off the cobwebs in The Red Knob Coal Bunker and dusting ourselves down, it’s not often that we post a missive on the Red Knob blog in these days of The Catastrophe brought to us by the current overlords at UK Plc – if you stick your helmet (oo’er) above the parapet too many [...]
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Worth a read. Eviscerating the NHS by  Dr John Lister, Senior Lecturer in Health Journalism at Coventry University. The implications for the delivery of sexual health and reducing health inequalities are clear: in a competetive free-for-all market run by private companies and third sector organisations where is the quality control? Dr Lister’s article can be accessed here: [...]
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We’ve finally got around to judging the ‘Buster Says’ competition that we ran at the recent boys and young men conference in Plymouth. All in the name of fun of course! After all we’re informed that humour is one way of engaging with young men – young men whose language and culture is steeped in [...]
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Well, next week is sexual health week – an invention of those arbiters of sexual health, the fpa? Whilst it would be boorish (who, us?) to knock the earnestness of the fpa and sexual health week – and any of the other campaigns that are run pre-Christmas, St Valentine’s Day and whenever the whim takes [...]
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Hope… In the news this week – at last ’a breakthrough’ with regard to treatment for prostate cancer. Hailed in a BBC News article as ‘the most significant advance in the field for 70 years’, and cautiously applauded in other news articles, it is claimed that the drug Abiraterone, which works by blocking the hormones which cause the [...]
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I watched a programme tonight about pensioners and their hardships in relation to keeping themselves warm on a State pension in Britain – given that fuel prices have risen by 73 percent since 1970. Last week’s news covered how much petroleum companies had made in profit… Coincidence? I think not. The real money is in [...]
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Dear Gordon Brown – a message, a request, a plea … “Ask not what your country can do for you, but what you can do for your country”. We hear this call to arms on a daily basis. We respond with creating something – something we feel will help our country, its people – and [...]
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