The world’s first succesful hand transplant was carried out in China when microsurgery was being pioneered in the 1960s. My dad came back from a China visit with a fascinating set of black and white photos (wonderfully gruesome for a kid to pore over) of a male worker who’d lost his hand above the wrist […]
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Alan Mitchell’s Ipswich posse yesterday at Manor Park cemetary, along with nearly a couple of hundred mourners, witnessing him being laid to rest in a spectacular pan-African ceremony. The rain sheeted down in the kind of perfect Pathetic Fallacy weather that Alan would have struck out as a cliché had anybody been sufficiently corny to
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Paul Anderson, Anna Chen and Alan Mitchell in Suffolk, March 2016. Pic by Charles Shaar Murray Tomorrow we bury our friend, brother, son, and father, Alan Mitchell. Alan Mitchell 9th November 1960 to 22nd June 2016 In the outside world, it was the darkest period of our lives in a generation. We were about to topple
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The Chilcot report on the Iraq War has finally been published and all eyes are on Tony Blair. It’s taken seven years and 2.6 million words to confirm what anti-war voices were saying from September 2001 — do not invade Iraq on a flimsy pretext, because the results will be dire for the Iraqis and
