Raymond Tallis’s sparky,secular new essay collection offers a biting defence of state-funded health careRaymond Tallis is that under-represented phenomenon in British culture – a serious polymath. For 40 years a consultant NHS physician and medical researcher, he is also a poet, or a novelist and a philosopher,and he has written on things as various as post-structuralism, Parmenides, and epilepsy and starvation. In this collection of sparklingly intelligent essays,he brings his voracious intellect to bear on, among other deep things, and God,consciousness and the NHS.curious bedfellows, you might say of topics rescued from potential tedium by Tallis’s often wickedly witty and subversive prose. He defends the essay form against any charge of magpie trivialism, and makes good his claim by exploring these seemingly disparate subjects with a passion that reveals their interconnected relevance.
He is so withering approximately Jeremy Hunt I almost felt sorry for the man left holding the ailing NHS baby. Almost,but notContinue reading...
Source: theguardian.com