A press release by Simon Foster, the Police and Crime Commissioner for the West Midlands was drawn to my attention yesterday regarding the Right Care, Right Person programme. It follows on from media coverage the scheme received by Times journalist Fiona Hamilton in September 2025 (with a subsequent follow-up piece in early November).  The PR […]

Every New Year’s day I think about the birthday I will have NEXT year – ie, 2027.  I’m born quite late in the year, so it always makes me realise how old I’m getting to have to contemplate the sentence “Next year I’m X-yrs old!”  Not that’s it’s any of your business, but it’s fifty-three, […]

I just wanted to wish you a “Merry Kweenuz!“, as Baldrick said in Blackadder’s Christmas Carol. That’s it really – just an expressed hope you find time and space to enjoy the week ahead – switch off from whatever you normally have to do and enjoy doing whatever it is you’d prefer to do instead, […]