The week started (and ended) really well, with a trip to London to appear on my friend Martin Daubney’s show from our Westminster studios.
I had become very exercised by the Prime Minister’s visit to Brussels for both NATO and EU matters. I was also very concerned by what Donald Trump had said and done about international trade and tariffs on Canada, Mexico and China, and the warning of tariffs on EU exports to the USA.
I felt the PM risked being on the wrong side of this row. And while he made the right noises about European countries increasing their contributions to NATO, flirting with the EU - who were in Trump’s sights - seemed to be dangerously inept.
I’ve also been closely following the fact that the Government had increased its interest in nuclear power and included even mini reactors in its dangerously undemocratic watering down of the right to object to planning applications.
I was thrilled to be joined in the GB News studios by an old friend, Mark Littlewood, who I have always liked and admired. He, like me, feels the Reeves Budget is the elephant in the room of economic policy. The governor of the Bank of England seemed to agree when he and his Monetary Policy Committee cut Interest Rates and slashed the growth forecast.. I fear rocky times ahead.
Two triumphs this week. I was fitted with my new hearing aids by my Polish NHS audiologist who is a fellow Rolling Stones fan with a Stones logo pencil case on her desk. She told me she'd seen them once in London and once in Warsaw. I think my total is now in double figures, so my heart was broken to read they don’t plan a European tour this year despite winning another Grammy this time for Hackney Diamonds as best rock album of the year.
Alastair Stewart delivers his damning verdict on the Prime Minister's trip to Brussels, a thrilling return to our broadcast studio and two triumphs on the health front in this week's Living With Dementia
GB NEWSThen, we finally got the magic letter from the Department of Work and Pensions about my dementia allowance, so we can now apply for help on council tax. It has all involved half a dozen helpful civil servants.
If all help and allowances were automatic upon NHS diagnosis, it would ease the stress on patients and save time and money for the civil service.
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