concrete labyrinths of the new social work depart-ments?where the central heating automatically goes on on October 1st and automatically goes off on April 1st, whatever the weather?the filing clerks excitedly cried: 'Isn't it amazing to have the windows open in February!' Nervous daffodils appeared on the typists' desks. It was a mild winter. Of course there were one or two contretemps. During ...

By the time these words appear in print, I understand that we shall have taken one more step, whatever that is, towards joining the European Community whatever that is. (We have trouble enough defining what we mean by a community even within Britain; I can't imagine it's going to be any easier, in European terms, even to perceive the community, let alone define it.) Anyway, before very long, pe...

I have recently been renewing my acquaintance with Rudyard Kipling Rudyard Kipling the poet, that is, as distinct from Rudyard Kipling the short-story writer and part-time novelist. R.K. the poet is very much out of favour at present, and has been these twenty years. I suppose this disfavour springs from his identification with the spirit of Empire, with the Raj, with the Great White Sahib, wit...

A personal view of the social services.

One of the most notable phenomena of the last two years has been the sudden growth of what might be called the 'ecological movement'. I think myself that 'ecology' is a bad word to use in this context; I take the word to mean the systematic and dispassionate analysis of interrelationships between various kinds of life-forms and their physical environment?and the movement is not yet very systema...

The local authority Social Services Departments are going to get a bad press during the next year or two This seems quite certain, because of the attitudes and activities of certain Members of Parliament. There appears to be quite a vogue nowadays for Members to open debates, ask questions and make speeches not so much for their impact on the floor of the House as for the amount of press covera...

the relationship between qt dispersion and myocardial ischemia is still controversial. therefore, we aimed to investigate the relationship between qtd and the severity and extent of myocardial ischemia. in this cross-sectional study, 141 patients having symptoms of cad who referred to our medical center during 2009-2010, and were examined with myocardial isotope scan and ecg, were enrolled. bas...