The strength of feeling among operational ambulance staff that has been made evident by the Edmund Daly case has been polarising. It is painfully clear that the precedent the case sets applies further intolerable pressure on front line clinicians and Read more…
A year ago today, I watched my mother die. An otherwise healthy woman, she unexpectedly started to suffer a decline in health early last year and by March, she was immobile, confused and emotionally volatile. I, along with my two Read more…
It is painfully evident from the outcry caused by the case of Edmund Daly, a beleaguered paramedic who could take no more and was thrown to the wolves for it, that things are horribly wrong within the practise of emergency Read more…
In this past week, many major news outlets have covered a story about a London Ambulance Service paramedic who refused to attend a 999 call on the grounds that he and his crewmate were dangerously tired after 11 hours overnight Read more…
At Fanfest 2013 – the last I attended – I idly speculated with CCP Guard at the press buffet about whether or not I would be attending the following year. I recall he laughed and said something along the lines Read more…
Oh, Cobra Mk. III, icon of my childhood and versatile chariot of the stars, why do you hate me so? An early goal I’d set myself was to get into the signature ship of the original Elite. In Elite: Dangerous Read more…
While I appreciate that Freebooted has historically been an EVE Online blog exclusively, my current love affair with Elite: Dangerous has left me considering expanding my content. After all, five years dedicated to a single game does seem a little… obsessive. Read more…
Something that has continued to impress me is Elite: Dangerous‘ astroscape (I’m not sure that’s a word, but if it isn’t, I’m coining it). From the 2001: A Space Odyssey-esque station approaches to the vast, undiscovered planetary systems which all Read more…
After cutting my teeth on the spry but limited Sidewinder, I wanted to try out other ships but lacked the capital to do it. The quick solution seemed to be to use what little I had earned to upgrade to Read more…
The thrum of my ship’s engines subsides as it drops out of warp and my viewscreen is filled with asteroids silently floating in the void beneath the silvery disc of a distant moon. A quick glance at my instruments warns Read more…