The Mushroom – crafter of fine rants about all manner of subjects, but mostly Walsall politics – has played a blinder. I just had to share this touching, very human post about the future of the National Health Service, those who work for it in the care of others and the vandals who are working to destroy it. This is a moving, warm piece. If you don’t read anything else today, please do read this.
My sister has one of the most demanding jobs in the world. She’s a nurse. Not a general nurse but a forensic, psychiatric nurse. Her patients range from the suicidal and self harming, to extremely violent individuals who have committed crimes which we, the public, have a dread of and puerile fascination with, but only at a distance…