How much for cash?
Blogger of the Year PETER RHODES on tax-dodging, the dangers of cannabis and the right way to sing the National Anthem.
ON the same day as a £30 million campaign is launched against dementia, it is reported that a quarter of new psychosis cases are caused by cannabis. So thousands of patients are coping as best they can with a brain disorder caused by age and bad luck while another group are cheerfully inflicting brain disorder on themselves with a daily dose of wacky backy. So who's first in the queue for NHS treatment?
MONDAY'S item on fire crews training to swim in floodwater reminds me that a couple of years ago I was part of a focus group looking at the future of fire fighting. The number of Brits dying in fires is astonishingly low and steadily falling. In 2013-14 there were 322 fire-related deaths, a fraction of the 967 fire deaths recorded in 1985. You might imagine, with the risk declining, that Joe Public would want to see fire-brigade budgets cut. Not a bit of it. No-one in that focus group begrudged a penny.
