With Christmas now four weeks behind us a moment to catch breath perhaps. or maybe not.
We won't embark on yet another Trump commentary other than to note that he was elected by the US' system of democracy (all those electoral colleges) and it is therefore entirely out of place,and irrelevant, for the disappointed in both the US and more especially abroad, to demonstrate and shreik foul. People voting for someone or something you don't like doesn't invalidate their eligibility to do so, whatever the so called liberal (but actually highly illiberal and intolerant) left may think. For opponents it is much more productive to accept the setback,figure out what they failed to do to avoid it and set about making sure by thought word and deeds they get their prospectus right next time. The same goes for Brexit and the Bremoaners. Like it or not,rightly or wrongly, the electorate has spoken.there is nothing to be gained by not energetically getting on with the new task. The same goes for the moribund European Commission. Where's the new plan , the new proposition to keep the UK in? Currently the grey men (there don't seem to be many women there) of Brussels show no sign of coming up with one and their mindset makes it unlikely that they will. To the Brexiteers another good reason for leaving.
The media is in a febrile state, its needs for 24/7 Breaking New headlines not being fed at home by a canny Theresa may who they continually slag off for not revealing her innermost or even outermost thoughts or by anything good they can say about "the Donald". That leaves just the NHS, now going,like most other northern European health services going through its annual seasonal crisis. Shouts for more money cone from every side but hardly a word on what it's for. The NHS needs root and branch flow analysis to establish what's getting in its way, clogging up processes, causing delays and stopping the patient getting swift ad successful treatment. Clinically it is usually good to excellent, It's the processes and some mindsets that get in the way, - and ultimately cause too many unnecessary premature deaths.
We will also skip over Davos, the once useful exclusive gathering but now, post populism, seriously dated spectacle of too much Dad dancing and money making grandstanding by failed politicians and others, charging absurd amounts to share their "wisdom" with other no-hopers. Time the resort went back to concentrating on real skiers.
Back to the headline. With 22 days of January gone and winterwise just 28 days of February to contend with, the very first tentative green shoots of Spring can't come soon enough. And hopefully with them some more positive thinking about making changed circumstances work. Enough of "looking into" " Further studies" and the rest ,some real delivery would be good now. We must do better than spending 40 years figuring out how to get a national trunk road past Stonehenge.
We won't embark on yet another Trump commentary other than to note that he was elected by the US' system of democracy (all those electoral colleges) and it is therefore entirely out of place,and irrelevant, for the disappointed in both the US and more especially abroad, to demonstrate and shreik foul. People voting for someone or something you don't like doesn't invalidate their eligibility to do so, whatever the so called liberal (but actually highly illiberal and intolerant) left may think. For opponents it is much more productive to accept the setback,figure out what they failed to do to avoid it and set about making sure by thought word and deeds they get their prospectus right next time. The same goes for Brexit and the Bremoaners. Like it or not,rightly or wrongly, the electorate has spoken.there is nothing to be gained by not energetically getting on with the new task. The same goes for the moribund European Commission. Where's the new plan , the new proposition to keep the UK in? Currently the grey men (there don't seem to be many women there) of Brussels show no sign of coming up with one and their mindset makes it unlikely that they will. To the Brexiteers another good reason for leaving.
The media is in a febrile state, its needs for 24/7 Breaking New headlines not being fed at home by a canny Theresa may who they continually slag off for not revealing her innermost or even outermost thoughts or by anything good they can say about "the Donald". That leaves just the NHS, now going,like most other northern European health services going through its annual seasonal crisis. Shouts for more money cone from every side but hardly a word on what it's for. The NHS needs root and branch flow analysis to establish what's getting in its way, clogging up processes, causing delays and stopping the patient getting swift ad successful treatment. Clinically it is usually good to excellent, It's the processes and some mindsets that get in the way, - and ultimately cause too many unnecessary premature deaths.
We will also skip over Davos, the once useful exclusive gathering but now, post populism, seriously dated spectacle of too much Dad dancing and money making grandstanding by failed politicians and others, charging absurd amounts to share their "wisdom" with other no-hopers. Time the resort went back to concentrating on real skiers.
Back to the headline. With 22 days of January gone and winterwise just 28 days of February to contend with, the very first tentative green shoots of Spring can't come soon enough. And hopefully with them some more positive thinking about making changed circumstances work. Enough of "looking into" " Further studies" and the rest ,some real delivery would be good now. We must do better than spending 40 years figuring out how to get a national trunk road past Stonehenge.
