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The Iran War: What are Trump’s Options and How Bad Could It Get ?

    Editor's Note: Please see recent update below the text... --------------------------------- Donald Trump has a problem on his hands…and the USA as a nation now has an even bigger one.... Having been persuaded by Netanyahu, and advised by his own White House advisors, that an all-out attack on the Iranian regime and its military wing, the IRGC, was the best solution to the ‘Iranian problem’, Trump was clearly expecting the war to be over in a matter of days. Somewhat surprisingly, this still seems to be his 'default' position for any campaign he starts, despite the lessons already provided by the Ukraine war and the continued attacks by all 3 of the Iranian proxies in the face of the massive bombing campaigns meted out to all 3 since the October 7th HAMAS attack. All this does beg the question of how closely he is really being kept informed, and who is actually driving US foreign policy... Despite the intense battering his military and the Israelis administered ove...
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Whither our UK NHS ?

The NHS is 75 years old, and one of our most prized institutions. As you'll see from the analysis below, it is now  sorely in need of medical assistance   itself . How can we save it from its terminal decline ? Editors note: This blog was first published in August 2022 - in view of the steady deterioration in the service since then, which has now reached crisis point, not least because of the ongoing industrial action, I've  updated it to reflect the changes. The Election result introduced some real soul-searching amongst politicians as to why the current organisational model of the NHS is failing...unfortunately this is likely to be a tough nut to crack without a radical change in its funding model, which is based entirely on taxation - any Labour government will find it difficult to square such a change with its ideology. We shouldn't therefore expect much progress in this direction, despite Labour's large majority. Indeed, despite claims that waiting lists are fallin...
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