Welcome to Litsy!

Warning: this book may make you exceptionally angry.

Credit to the author for continuing to stick with the campaign in the face of years of government denials (and worse).

This book is terribly serious, and I am reading it getting angry at the UK government(s).

However, the author does like her tabloid-speak. She meets David Owen in his "immaculate" town house. An infected woman has a "heart of gold". Another victim is a "high-flying graduate" It's a bit jarring.??‍♀️

...the harrowing tombstone and iceberg TV adverts voiced by the actor John Hurt. The campaign was undoubtedly effective....

'I have heard it said that the advert was so scary it put a whole generation off having sex,' Fowler [former health secretary] told me. 'Well, I don't think there is any evidence that it actually did! What I do know is that I get letters from time to time from people who say thank you - that it saved their life...'

[Prof John] Cash also questioned whether the aspiration for the UK to become self-sufficient by producing enough home-grown factor concentrates was achievable on current spending plans. His intervention would prove prophetic. But, once again, he was ignored by the powers that be.

The intransigence of the UK Government is difficult to understand. Perversely, commercial imports were more expensive than UK products...😡🤬😤😱🤯