Last Friday evening, 24 May 2024, Rev. Ivan Foster (rtd) addressed the monthly meeting of the Sovereign Grace Advent Testimony.
His subject was “The Righteousness of Faith.”
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The following is a summary of a BBC article on the publishing of the report of ‘The Infected Blood Inquiry’.
* The infected blood scandal inquiry has published its final report – concluding that the treatment disaster could and should have been largely avoided
* The report says that patients were knowingly exposed to “unacceptable risks”
* The five-year investigation also accuses doctors, the government and NHS of trying to cover-up what happened
* “Now the country knows, and the world knows, there was a deliberate attempt to lie and conceal”, campaigner Clive Smith says at a media briefing
* More than 30,000 people were infected with HIV and hepatitis C from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions – about 3,000 have since died
* Prime Minister Rishi Sunak is expected to issue an apology later on today.
Under the headline:
the BBC coverage of the scandal contained these words:
“Authorities covered up the infected blood scandal after knowingly exposing victims to unacceptable risks, a long-awaited report, external says.
The five-year investigation accused doctors, government and the NHS of letting patients catch HIV and hepatitis.
More than 30,000 people were infected from 1970 to 1991 by contaminated blood products and transfusions.
About 3,000 have since died and more deaths will follow.
The Infected Blood Inquiry said victims had been failed “not once but repeatedly” by doctors, the NHS, government and others responsible for their safety. (more…)
Two articles from the ‘Belfast Newsletter of Monday, 20th May. 2024.
The following two articles reminded me of the famous response of Lord Nelson to the signal from his commander in chief, Admiral Sir Hyde Parker, to ‘disengage’ during the battle of Copenhagen. Nelson’s response was to say to his flag captain, who had reported the Admiral’s signal, ’You know, Foley, having only one eye it’s my right to be blind sometimes.’ Then he put his telescope to his blind right eye, said, ‘I really do not see the signal,’ and carried on fighting with his own signal, ‘Engage the enemy more closely flying.
His deliberate act of ‘blind disobedience’ to a coward signal, resulted in a most admirable victory.
The present ‘self-inflicted blindness’ of the DUP to that which is plain to everyone else, friend and for — that their arrangement with the British Government to end the Irish Sea border has always been a sham and they have been taken for fools by London! No admirable victory will come of this ‘blindness’. The next election in Ulster I feel may well prove this to be so!
Read the two articles carefully.
Owen Polley: The DUP’s interpretation of the deal over the Irish Sea border is being shown up repeatedly in the most embarrassing ways
It was a week of contrasts last week for the DUP.
Writing in today’s News Letter, DUP deputy leader Gavin Robinson says his party’s agreement with the government ‘goes further than ever before to undo the damage of the NI Protocol’. He adds: ‘The arrangements we have secured not only restore but safeguard Northern Ireland’s place in the United Kingdom and its internal market’ (more…)