Tangential. One of the most public-spirited acts known to me was Banting, Best & McCleod who discovered insulin in ~1922 and were granted a US patent, which they then sold to the University of To… (View Post)

I've done it now, haven't I ? :smile: That started this morning as "Donald Schmuck" for a tweet about Mr Trump and his singularly self-collapsing defence witness. (View Post)

There's a good account of Craig McKinley's sepsis on the BBC. https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-politics-69037424 It came on really quickly. He is fortunate to be married to a pharmacist, who d… (View Post)

I think mine have a "guarantee" of 90% capacity after 20 years. Obvs redress would never happen, but it is an indication. (View Post)

To make the prisons population point further. The UK's not-on-remand prison population. Period Non-remand prison population 30/06/08 69754 30/06/09 70115 30/06/10 71998 30/06/11 72910 30/06/12 7… (View Post)