I've commented on the
way Britain's National Health Service is cynically used as a
political football. Yesterday I read this Private Eye account of how
the Labour party is trying to leverage their perceived electoral edge
in this are:- A reader tells us he signed up for an app on
Facebook which offered to find out how many people had the same name
as him on the electoral register. He mischievously asked how many
were called Harold Shipman [a doctor and notorious serial killer who
knocked off at least 35 of his aged patients]. The site replied there
were 5 and he thought no more of it. Then he began to be bombarded
with unsolicited emails from the Labour party. The political
propaganda was all directed to Harold Shipman and contained messages
from [various Labour bigwigs]. Our favourite was from the shadow
Health Secretary: "Harold. Young or old, rich or poor, man or
woman - no one's life in Britain would be the same without our
incredible [sic!] health service. Harold: Click here to see the story
of you and our NHS". Some story this would be!
Here are a few fotos of
Lisbon, a city which - in early April - is already teeming with
tourists. Not least in the barrio of Belém, where what used to be a
small pastry shop-cum-café has become an obligatory stop for the
millions of Japanese visitors who need to be snapped having a cup of
tea and a cake there.
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| The city's rather central prison |
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| Belém church |
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| Tower of Belém |
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| Luxury flats in what used to be the House of the English (Jesuits) |
Off to Sintra and Evora today.
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