What the Elphicke

The week’s you-couldn’t-make-it-up stories… Here’s the latest edition of Salix Insight with some observations on the week’s you-couldn’t-make-it-ups from the worlds of health, social care and reputational management. And, what a week to return. Let’s start with Sperm Whales. Or at least with the scientists who claim to be making great progress in understanding their…

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Metaphorically speaking…

It’s been a veritable land of milk and honey for metaphor lovers recently. Simile-philes will have been like kids in a sweet shop come to that.  It’s all thanks to Deputy Chief Medical Officer, Professor Jonathan Van Tam who has had the unenviable task of appearing on the telly to advise us all to stay…

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There’s a lot of it about

So what do you reckon? Will Matt “’Apless” Hancock be, at this moment, begging for mercy as he gets a damn good thrashing from Dominic Cummings? It’s not entirely implausible. Comms people know the value of key messages and keeping their people on song. Consequently, we live in a world in which just about every…

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Terrorism by another name

Terrorism comes in many formsBad news, it’s said, travels fast. Although manifestly not fast enough in some instances. Being a resident of Streatham, police helicopters and sirens are about as newsworthy as rain in Manchester. It’s an oddly comforting urban white noise.Sitting in the garden last Sunday however, there were noticeably more helicopters buzzing around.…

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The importance of a good lunch

Rejoice in this election and Prince Andrew-free zone.Instead, I have to pass on a snippet of conversation that might amuse and delight you as much as it did me. My 16 month old nephew came over from France where he lives with English mum and French dad.He attends a nursery and, this being France, is already…

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You have to be Skidding me

It’s hard to feel any sort of sympathy for politicians at the best of times. These days, being so far removed from anything remotely resembling the best of times, even the most compassionate hearts are hardening towards the people who are supposed to represent us. So, just when you thought your flabber could not be…

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40 years on

If the 1960’s was something of a sex, drugs and rock ‘n roll-fuelled party, the 1970’s was the head splitting hangover. It was not a happy decade. Hard to believe now that we had to go shopping with a lighted candle or torchlight because of the sudden and unscheduled power cuts. Worse, all TV broadcasting…

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