Tag: Obituary

It’s Hard Work Dying

This blog is being closed down soon. I don’t have the energy to maintain it. I have had a major kidney disease for about 50 years and after a transplant from my brother 30 years ago it’s now fading away so I have been on dialysis for 2 years. That is proving very tedious and tiresome so in the new year I will probably volunteer to stop it.

One advantage of kidney dialysis is that it gives you the ability to choose when to die. If I stop dialysis I may die within a couple of weeks. But it’s not quite as simple as that! There are lots of people who want to give me advice and forms to fill out re “End of Life Care”.

In addition I need to tidy up my financial affairs and ensure my executors know where to find things.

I am beginning to envy those people who drop dead from a stroke or heart attack.

Anyway as I shall reach the age of 80 in January and have achieved most things I wanted to in life, commiserations are unnecessary.

Roger Lawson (Twitter: https://x.com/RogerWLawson  )

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The Death of Lord Lawson

The media is awash with tributes on the death of Nigel Lawson. A tax cutting chancellor who reinvigorated the UK economy and was a bulwark of Thatcherism. He denationalised whole swathes of UK industry and was subsequently active in support of Britain leaving the EU. He also served as chairman of the Global Warming Policy Foundation think tank which opposed some of the extreme environmental measures now being pushed through by a Conservative Government.  

He also said about traffic conditions in London that changes have done more damage, and is doing more damage, to London than almost anything since the Blitz. He was referring to the “Mayor’s addiction to cycling” and the introduction of the Cycle Superhighways by Boris Johnson and Transport for London.

In summary a highly intelligent and influential politician.

Note: I am no relation to him but people regularly call me Nigel when they can’t recall my first name. Hopefully that will be less frequent in future.

Roger Lawson (Twitter: https://twitter.com/RogerWLawson )

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