There’s Nothing Free About It: A Lesson in Government Delusion
by Ram ben Ze'ev There’s Nothing Free About It: A Lesson in Government Delusion Today, I received a letter from the NHS—at first alarming, then simply aggravating. It wasn’t an invitation. It was a decree. I had been scheduled for an Abdominal Aortic Aneurysm Screening on 21 August 2025 at 9:30am. No consent requested. No conversation. Just a decision made somewhere in a bureaucratic maze that my body now belonged to their timetable. The letter itself—a three-page A4 missive, plus an NHS...
