The Return of Fear - as a result of destroying the NHS
Saturday, September 3rd, 2011Please watch the video with the above title available here this weekend And realise just why we have to defeat the Health and Social Care
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Twenty years of private pensions have only made the rich richer - and NHS reform will do the same
Friday, September 2nd, 2011Phillip Inman noted in the Guardian yesterday that it was entirely possible for someone to have saved for twenty years in a personal pension using
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Just deliberate red herrings?
Thursday, September 1st, 2011The government has done another U turn. First it supports the Field / Dorries abortion amendment. Now it does not. There was a highly effective
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Why not spend a bit more on the NHS - then GPs would make fewer mistakes?
Saturday, July 30th, 2011The attck on the NHS took a subtle new turn today – in the Guardian, of all places. First the was the suggestion that GPs
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The corruption at the core of modern capitalism
Monday, July 11th, 2011From the Guardian this morning: One of America’s biggest healthcare providers, McKesson, gave its chief executive, John Hammergren, a 190% pay rise last year to $150m. Welcome to
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Standing up with a Tory against the far right
Thursday, July 7th, 2011I spoke at the All Party Parliamentary Group on Economics, Money and Banking yesterday afternoon. I often prepare a speech for such events and then
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My new book - 'The Courageous State: Rethinking economics and the role of government'
Monday, July 4th, 2011Having just put up a blog saying I’m the forthcoming author of a book with the above title I really think it time to mention
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Doctors vote for industrial action for first time in 36 years
Thursday, June 30th, 2011As the Guardian reports: Doctors have voted overwhelmingly to ballot the profession on industrial action to protest against the coalition’s plans to overhaul the NHS pension scheme. Delegates
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Why the NHS reforms are massively inefficient
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011The evidence is mounting, from the Kings Fund, the Nuffield Foundation and others that the revised NHS bill adds massive more admin complexity at considerable extra
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