More From Stepping Hill Hospital.

You may remember that back in July of 2011 just before my grandmother went into hospital for the first time and the News of the World phone hacking scandal was at it's fictional height there was much drama at the Stepping Hill hospital in greater Manchester. Someone had been killing elderly patients by adding insulin to their saline drips. Eventually a red headed nurse named Rebbecca was arrested but the authorities decided not to prosecute as the whole story sort of got swamped by the terror attacks in Norway.

Well in the last couple of days there has been another spate of patients at Stepping Hill hospital being given dangerous and incorrect doses of drugs. The police have arrested a 46 year old male nurse. To me it looks as though a second killer has been sent to the hospital in the hope that all the killings will be blamed on them rewriting the history books so they don't show that Britain killed a number of it's own subject's in order to wage a campaign to silence the news media. Of course it also puts the law relating to the falsification of medical records and administration of poisons into focus again. Incidentally campaigners are again calling for the legalisation of euthanasia. I don't know what they're getting so excited about though because at this rate not only will it be legal it will be compulsory.

In other news the shadow health minister Diane Abbott has found herself at the centre of a storm in a tea cup. In a Twitter argument in which a poster was attacking the black community in light of the Dobson/Norris verdict she said something about white people loving to play divide and rule. Conservatives and other right wingers have today (5/1/12) been queuing up to accuse her of racism and call for her resignation. Lead amongst them has been Conservative MP Rehman Chisti. In the space of two TV interviews he's managed to imply that only white people can be considered British and referred to the conviction of Dobson and Norris for the murder of Stephen Lawrence as a "tragedy." I don't think he intended to be racist but he really needs to know when to shut up.