Paul Roberts
@paulrobertsnhs.bsky.social
Long-serving NHS Trust CEO, recently retired, but still active in and around the NHS. Interested in healthcare, equality, news, politics, Ukraine, cricket (Somerset), rugby (Exeter), football (Bristol City) and life.
Have to admit I thought Mrs Miniver was a documentary.
December 5, 2025 at 2:08 PM
Have to admit I thought Mrs Miniver was a documentary.
He lulled Green into a false sense of security at the cost of 50 runs!
December 5, 2025 at 11:02 AM
He lulled Green into a false sense of security at the cost of 50 runs!
As we speak Reform is probably scrabbling to deselect Alf Garnet as its council candidate for East Ham!
December 4, 2025 at 9:07 PM
As we speak Reform is probably scrabbling to deselect Alf Garnet as its council candidate for East Ham!
Bring back Chris Tavaré!
December 4, 2025 at 9:36 AM
Bring back Chris Tavaré!
The old chaps a bit tired now. I hope! 🫣😰😉
December 4, 2025 at 9:34 AM
The old chaps a bit tired now. I hope! 🫣😰😉
It’s the editorialising on the “news” pages that annoys me the most. Comment is fine, it is basically a right wing newspaper, but news used to be reported with greater integrity!
December 3, 2025 at 10:40 AM
It’s the editorialising on the “news” pages that annoys me the most. Comment is fine, it is basically a right wing newspaper, but news used to be reported with greater integrity!
A classic example of which is Melanie Phillips’s piece in The Times today in which she describes the verdict in the Colston toppling trial as a symbol of the death of civilisation (more or less) and the reason modern juries are dodgy - they don’t always share her prejudices apparently. Shocking.
December 2, 2025 at 10:08 AM
A classic example of which is Melanie Phillips’s piece in The Times today in which she describes the verdict in the Colston toppling trial as a symbol of the death of civilisation (more or less) and the reason modern juries are dodgy - they don’t always share her prejudices apparently. Shocking.
The reduction in the role of juries concerns me too.
At the end of her piece Phillips rants about the liberal values which have risen in recent decades influencing juries. Like Trump, Jenrick & Reform, presumably she’s like judges appointed for their conservative ideological purity. Chilling!
At the end of her piece Phillips rants about the liberal values which have risen in recent decades influencing juries. Like Trump, Jenrick & Reform, presumably she’s like judges appointed for their conservative ideological purity. Chilling!
December 2, 2025 at 9:59 AM
The reduction in the role of juries concerns me too.
At the end of her piece Phillips rants about the liberal values which have risen in recent decades influencing juries. Like Trump, Jenrick & Reform, presumably she’s like judges appointed for their conservative ideological purity. Chilling!
At the end of her piece Phillips rants about the liberal values which have risen in recent decades influencing juries. Like Trump, Jenrick & Reform, presumably she’s like judges appointed for their conservative ideological purity. Chilling!
“And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin lamprey?”
December 1, 2025 at 11:15 AM
“And finally, monsieur, a wafer-thin lamprey?”
To be fair (and pedantic) the Crucifixion happened before early Christian times, which started three days later with the resurrection, a miracle that, by coincidence, Reeves and Starmer are also hoping for.
November 28, 2025 at 3:33 PM
To be fair (and pedantic) the Crucifixion happened before early Christian times, which started three days later with the resurrection, a miracle that, by coincidence, Reeves and Starmer are also hoping for.
Get the chairman of the Conservative Party to tell them!
November 28, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Get the chairman of the Conservative Party to tell them!