Amanda Pritchard is the new chief executive officer of NHS England and first woman to lead organisation (doi:10.1136/bmj.n1930),1 joining female health service executives in Northern Ireland Scotland. an experienced senior manager, a success story graduate training scheme, admirer Elizabeth I, last Tudor monarch, whom she describes as “strong leader male world” (https://www.thetimes.co.uk/artic...

On New Year’s Eve 1959, Ferry to Hong Kong was screened at the Lee Theatre and Astor in Kong. Produced by Rank as its first CinemaScope feature, big-budget movie tells real-life tale of Steven Ragan (he also known Michael Patrick O’Brien), a stateless drifter who stuck for ten months on ferry sailing between Macau from September 18, 1952, July 30, 1953. The British film Rank’s major Anglo-Ameri...

An unquiet life. Memoirs of a physician and cardiologist. This book is of unusual interest. It is not a history of cardiology in Belfast in the last forty years, though that is touched on in some of its aspects. It is the self-revelation of the remarkable man and physician who revolutionised the practice of cardiology in Belfast, in Ulster, and ultimately the world. He may not have meant it, bu...

An unquiet life. Memoirs of a physician and cardiologist. This book is of unusual interest. It is not a history of cardiology in Belfast in the last forty years, though that is touched on in some of its aspects. It is the self-revelation of the remarkable man and physician who revolutionised the practice of cardiology in Belfast, in Ulster, and ultimately the world. He may not have meant it, bu...

An unquiet life. Memoirs of a physician and cardiologist. This book is of unusual interest. It is not a history of cardiology in Belfast in the last forty years, though that is touched on in some of its aspects. It is the self-revelation of the remarkable man and physician who revolutionised the practice of cardiology in Belfast, in Ulster, and ultimately the world. He may not have meant it, bu...

Having been an ʿAbbāsid Caliph in such a period when the Caliphate office lost its political authority and symbolically serviced as religious power, al-Nāṣir li-Dīn Allāh desired to reset of Islamic world. For doing so he did notable military, political, intellectual social reforms. One reforms that dates back earlier times was improve concept position idea futuwwa under his authority. Term “fu...

H.G. Wells called the first decade of the twentieth century ‘a period of badly-strained optimism.’ Britain was just emerging from the Boer War. The war — which had gone badly at first — was partly about the rights of non-Boers in the Boer Republics but even more, perhaps, about the diamond fields of the Rand. When the British eventually won, Life magazine summed up international opinion: ‘a sma...