I couldn’t help thinking about Mary Poppins when I saw the headlines regarding the Royal Wedding this week, particularly the song “A spoon full of sugar helps the medicine go down”!

I opened and spoke at a UNISON Organising Stewards course last week which London Ambulance UNISON Branch ran in-house. As Branch Secretary this is one of my responsibilities and we try to organise these courses on a regular basis. Mark Belkin, Branch Education Officer, works hard in arranging these and I…