The week started (and ended) very well, with a trip to London to appear in the program of my friend Martin Daubney of our Westminster studios.
I had become very exercised by the Prime Minister’s visit to Brussels for the issues of NATO and the EU. I was also very concerned about what Donald Trump had said and does on international trade and prices on Canada, Mexico and China, and the warning of EU exports to the United States .
I felt that the PM was likely to be on the wrong side of this row. And although he made the right noises on European countries increasing their contributions to NATO, flirting with the EU – which were in view of Trump – seemed dangerously inept.
I also closely followed that the government had increased its interest in nuclear energy and even included mini reactors in its dangerously undemocratic watering of the right to oppose planning applications.
I was delighted to be joined in the GB News studios by an old friend, Mark Littlewood, whom I have always loved and admired. He, like me, believes that the Reeves budget is the elephant in the economic policy room. The governor of the Bank of England seemed to agree when he and his monetary policy committee reduced interest rates and reduced growth forecasts. I fear that Rocky Times to come.
Two triumphs this week. I was equipped with my new hearing aids by my Polisal NHS audiologist who is another fan of Rolling Stones with a Stones logo pencil case on his desk. She told me that she had seen them once in London and once in Warsaw. I think my total is now two figures, so my heart was broken to read that they do not plan a European tour this year despite another Grammy this time for Hackney Diamonds as the best rock album of the year .
Alastair Stewart pronounces his overwhelming verdict during the Prime Minister’s trip to Brussels, an exciting return to our distribution studio and two triumphs on the health front in the life of this week with demency
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Then, we finally received the magic letter from the Ministry of Labor and Pensions on my dementia allowance, so that we can now ask for help on the council tax. Everything involved half a dozen useful officials.
If all help and allowances were automatic when diagnosing the NHS, this would facilitate stress on patients and save time and money for the public service.