A Freefolk plant nursery has been given a grand send-off by the leading lights of the horticultural world as it retires from the Chelsea Flower Show. Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants announced earlier this year that it would no longer compete at the show after the date was moved from May to September, as there would not be time to grow all the plants required. Instead, the garden has been built at their nursery, and was opened today (Monday, May 17) as celebrities including Gardeners World presenter Adam Frost and BBC Breakfast presenter Mike Bushell looked on. Rosy Hardy said: “It’s really great to know that so many people have loved our shows over the years and this is our way of saying thank you very much for everybody who has come and seen our planting, taken delight in it and maybe even copied it, which is a really great compliment for anyone who puts something on display.
Single-Payer Reform and Rural Health in the United States: Lessons from Our Northern Neighbor
Abstract
Single-payer health reform has secured its place in the mainstream American health policy debate, yet its implications for particular subpopulations or sectors of care remain understudied. Amidst many unanswered questions from policymakers and political pundits, rural health has emerged as one such area. This article explores rural Canada’s five-decade-long experience with a national publicly funded health insurance program as a valuable opportunity for cross-national learning. During March 2020, I conducted 13 semi-structured, elite stakeholder interviews with government officials, academic researchers, rural hospital executives, public health association leaders, rural health administrators, and representatives from provincial medical, hospital, and physician associations in Ontario. I found that a single-payer model confers notable advantages over a market-based model, includ
An award-winning Freefolk plant nursery has been forced to forego its chance at a final hurrah at the Chelsea Flower Show after the event was rescheduled. Hardy’s Cottage Garden Plants has said it will not be able to go for a 25th gold medal at the flower show after it was rescheduled from May to September as there is not enough time to grow the hundreds of flowers required for the event in time. Instead, the nursery is planning to use the flowers it had grown in preparation of May for a special celebration which is soon to be announced.
A collective led by author and Living Architecture founder Alain de Botton has attacked the dispiriting, chaotic and distasteful architecture of urban environments in an essay titled Why is the Modern World So Ugly?
The article published on The School of Life organisation s website states that our ancestors would be shocked at the horrors of modern architecture. One of the great generalisations we can make about the modern world is that it is, to an extraordinary degree, an ugly world, said the essay, which was anonymously written by a member of De Botton s The School of Life collective. If we were to show an ancestor from 250 years ago around our cities and suburbs, they would be amazed at our technology, impressed by our wealth, stunned by our medical advances – and shocked and disbelieving at the horrors we had managed to build, continued the article.