I hope that is not directed at me. But in general if I read you right - yes!

Really! He is lauded as the nicer one.

Yeah - but this will not reach the people who need to know. And it would make no difference if it did. “Because all politicians are the same you know!” Sadly these concerted attacks by the rightwing agents in this country has shifted the political dial significantly however imbalanced and unjust.

I will give you a tick if I am proved wrong. 😝

I thought antibiotics only become available to civilians in the UK after the war.

Antibiotics are not established in general medicine for the pubic until the 1950s. But were fast tracked in the 40s as war medicine/

These authoritarians keep showing us their true stripes.

What I find quite suprising is that maternal mortality does not start dropping until the mid 1930s. That seems very late. Significant medical advances start in the 19th century - but no change for such a long time.

I think you might be right.