Author Archives: Giolla

Analogies don’t get better

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Sometimes life smiles at you and the world creates the most wonderful of analogies. Yesterday as you may have read some Greenpeace protestors decide to climb the Shard. Which is a rather tall building and so presented something of a challenge. Fortunately they had mobile phones with them (presumably attached securely to them by lanyards to avoid endangering people below) and they tweeted about their expereince during the climb. The climb was apparently to protest against Shell drilling for oil in the arctic, not that Shell have offices in the shard, nor that the shard owners have anything to do … Continue reading →

Here comes the nudge

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I muttered yesterday about how the Welsh assembly had decided we no longer owned our own bodies (at least not once dead) and that they could just help themselves to our organs, unless they somehow knew we’d said that they couldn’t. Well here comes the “nudge” for the rest of. If you’re not a registered donor, on a database not just carrying a card then to the back of the queue for you if you need a transplant yourself. The telegraph is reporting that the NHS would like to push non-donors to the back of the transplant queue to encourage … Continue reading →