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UK Cost of Living Increases: Who Should The New Chancellor Support…and How ?

  The new occupant of No 11 has a thorny problem on his hands…it's a significant one, and not one he or his new boss can ignore.... We’re all feeling the pinch as a result of the most recent economic shock – Trump’s ill-advised Iran War, and this comes on top of a succession of shocks from Covid onwards. We all knew the economic pain the hostilities would cause; even before they started, a large slice of our population, on low wages but not entitled to benefits were really not able to make ends meet without taking out additional high-interest loans or cutting their outgoings to the bone. For some of them, yet another economic shock could well bring them to the brink of bankruptcy. The excessive electricity and gas price rises imposed by the supplier ‘cartel’ to maintain their profit margins, and sanctioned by a compliant OFGEM, have been particularly injurious. This trend was apparent well before the start of the Iran war, so cannot be blamed on higher world prices as the...
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Statins – The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

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  Many of us find ourselves prescribed one or other of the statins by our GPs nowadays, often as a result of a routine health check. But are they really necessary, and what are the risks of taking them ? In this article, we’ll try to explain exactly what the statins are, how they work, and why the medical profession are so keen on prescribing them for us ‘en masse’. I’ll start with the ‘why’, to try to put the need for these drugs into context…. Our modern diet is rich in carbohydrates and fats, and often takes the form of highly processed ready meals, which also contain a lot of salt. The problem is that this type of ‘challenge’ to our digestive systems on a continuous basis is an issue – our guts, brains and metabolism simply weren’t designed for it. The explanation for this mismatch is relatively simple. For the vast majority of our evolutionary history, food was scarce, and whatever came along had to be pounced upon and used to the full…otherwise we simply starved...
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