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AN OLD MAN’S DISEASE?

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Prostate cancer is the most common cancer in the UK, with over 63,000 cases and 12,300 deaths annually. 34 men in the UK die from the disease every day. Like most cancers, early detection, an early diagnosis is extremely…

Toponium

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Physicists have detected ‘Toponium’—an exotic particle so incomprehensibly tiny that it redefines our understanding of “small.” To put this in perspective: if a toponium particle were the size of a grain of sand, an atom would span wider than…

“Diagnostic Tests”

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death Hi John, I hope you are keeping well. We shared your video “diagnostic tests” at the most recent Cheshire and Merseyside Cancer Alliance Diagnostic Delivery Board and the team wanted to pass on their sincere thanks to you for…

Hegel’s Dialectic

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death “Small boats” is not an inherent or standard example of Hegel’s dialectic in philosophical studies. Hegel’s dialectic is a formal philosophical method, not a term for a contemporary political issue.  However, the political and social issues surrounding “small boats”…

NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death In 2025, the focus for cancer vaccines is on continued clinical trials, particularly for personalised mRNA vaccines and therapeutic vaccines. The NHS Cancer Vaccine Launch Pad is fast-tracking patients with head and neck cancer into an mRNA vaccine trial using technology to train the…

“Department of War”

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death IN 1964, A GROUP OF Chinese officials gave the nations of the world a simple challenge: You say your nuclear weapons are for defence, not for attack? So we’ll sign here to show we are serious, and you do…

Doomsday

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death.  An epic analysis of 5,000 years of civilisation argues that a global collapse is coming unless inequality is vanquished. The Guardian, 2nd August 2025,Damian Carrington reviewed, ‘Self-Termination is most likely’ : the history and future of societal collapse. We…

Holly Butcher (1990 – 2018)

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. I recently read a blog by a young woman, Holly Butcher, who has now died aged 27 from cancer. She was offering her ‘final piece of life advice’ — written the day before she died. It caused me to…

Glastonbury 2025

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. My, fourteenth, Glastonbury I have been a Glasto Junky for just shy of 20 years (2007-2025). In what seems like the blink of an eye, another, amazing, Glastonbury Festival is over. As always, I experienced SO much yet, missed,…

Sick Note Me

Life – Terror. Ecstasy. Fight. Denial. Flight. Failure. PAIN. Forgiveness. Reconciliation. Hope. Love. Peace – Death. [As] my cancer has spread (metastasised) to 5 other areas, including my lungs, I completed a month, 4 weeks, 20 days (with weekends off), Radiation Therapy. At the same time commencing, for the first time, Hormone Treatment. After an…

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