In 1960, at the 902nd plenary meeting of the United Nation’s General Assembly, Nikita Khrushchev was so annoyed by something Harold Macmillan had said that he banged his shoe on the table. Some historians say that he just waved the shoe around a bit. Either way, it was a surprisingly ineffectual gesture from a man who had control of the world’s second largest arsenal of nuclear weapons.
This was my personal blog. In the beginning, it was mainly concerned with mental health, politics and music, but I ran out of steam in 2017. After a long hiatus, I resumed in the summer of 2021. I published a lot of blogs about my earlier life. These proved to be quite popular, but I have taken them down again. The reason for this is that I have started to use them as source material for a memoir which will be published in some form in due course. I no longer blog regularly.
The content of the blogs I am leaving up did not represent the views of my employers, any organisation in which I hold office, whether paid or honorary or even necessarily myself anymore. Nothing in this blog should be taken as advice to guide individual medical treatment. No financial decisions, including betting on horse races, should be made on the basis of my opinions.