The great Covid 19 crisis, however bad it gets, will one day pass. It is a serious medical emergency; yet it masks an equally great one- our utter deficiency in new antibiotics. Without them, all surgical interventions become terrifyingly hazardous-whether it is routine surgery, childbirth,or major interventions like cancer surgery.

A few years ago, a great man called Professor Colin Gardiner set up a charity called antibiotics research UK. Their aim is to promote new research, and to encourage best practice . To help him, Professor Gardiner has worked with some of the finest minds in the country, including Dame Sally Davies and Lord Jim O’Neill. In the coming months, I will be covering more of the work of this most timely charity. As soon as possible, I will post a link to their website, which I cannot reach now for technical reasons

http://www.antibioticresearch.org.uk

My first day as a blogger, Wednesday 1st April 2020. At the height of the Coronavirus crisis, in what TS Elliott called “April, the cruellest month.” My aim is to gather together interesting information on developments in science, economics, and the we way people behave. It’s stuff that has caught my eye, or that of my friends. It will be non political in nature; bitter experience has shown me that the most unexpected people can save your life. No side has a monopoly on wisdom or virtue.

I will also be trying to speak in English. Which means the use of relative pronouns such as which and that. More on this in due course

Thanks for joining me!

Good company in a journey makes the way seem shorter. — Izaak Walton