I do love The Week! The perfect combination of news, illuminating comment (not just from our little sceptered isle but from around the world), reviews – and humour. Not always as biting or as potentially offensive as Charlie Hebdo, but none the less telling. For example, from …
Obscure intolerances poorly served – and don’t we know it!
From a salicylate-intolerant site visitor who has been batted backwards and forwards between allergy and dermatology departments, neither of whom will give her the time of day because they have tested her for the full gamut of IgE mediated 'proper' allergies – and she does not …
Charlie Hebdo – by Dave Brown
Anyone who did not see the Independent's wonderful front page this morning (entirely taken over by Dave Brown's cartoon below) should definitely check in to his blog post today. As he says, 'we are privileged to live in a country where cartoonists don't get locked up, or …
2014 round up
I am afraid that round ups of the last year's events are not my forte so, thank goodness, Alex has come to the rescue again! If you want to know what happened in 2014 in the coeliac, allergy and intolerance world, check in to Food Allergy and Intolerance Ink for his …
Christmas culture – from the panto to My Promised Land
OK – so when did you last go to a panto?..... So many decades ago in my case that it feels like millennia! Which is why, when one of my favourite neighbourhood theatres, the Park in Finsbury Park, flagged up Jack in the Beanstalk with rave reviews from everyone from Sir Ian …