Straws in the Wind*

It’s the poor that gets the blameI have just been talking, by telephone, to the wife of an old friend of mine, in Oxford. He is very ill; among other things, a prostate which should have been taken out years ago, but for which he was first booked in last November. His operation has been announced, then cancelled quite a number of times, and has just been deferred again, until the end of July. No beds: this is England’s National Health Service (NHS). Meantime he has been having to wear a catheter…

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