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The Iran War: What are Trump’s Options ?

  Donald Trump has a problem on his hands…the USA as a nation has an even bigger one. Having been persuaded by his advisors and Netanyahu 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 expecting the war to be over in a matter of days. This was despite the lesson already provided by the Ukraine war and the continued attacks by the 3 Iranian proxies in the face of massive bombing campaigns. However, despite the intense battering he and the Israelis have administered over a wide area of their country in the last fortnight, and the decapitation of the old leadership, the IRGC are still managing to bombard their arab neighbours with missiles and drones. More importantly for the West generally, they have effectively closed the Strait of Hormuz, and with it blocked supplies of oil and gas from the middle east oilfields to the rest of the world.This in turn has threatened worldwide economic disru...
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Could Your Site’s Google Search Entry Suddenly Disappear ? A Salutary Tale for the Unwary...

The short answer to what might be quite a disturbing question for many, sadly, is: Quite possibly..... Let me explain why. First, a bit of background. In common with many others, I first started posting to the net back in 2021 when the pandemic was still periodically keeping us legally under house arrest for up to 23 hours a day. Amongst other things, as someone with experience in the immunology field, I wanted to create a widely-available platform to share ideas on possible strategies for vaccine development that bypassed the conventional formal publication procedure. Since funding was an issue, I decided to use Google’s Sites offering which had been recently upgraded, and I knew could be used free of charge to set up a website. To cut a long story short, having set up a site successfully, and even written a manual to explain how others could do it, it took 1 year and 3 months to get my site indexed – you can see a history of this ridiculously long wait, and what I did t...
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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 has finally introduced some real soul-searching amongst politicians as to why the current funding and 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 any Labour government will find difficult to square 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 falling, patients are ' go...
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