George Osborne's legacy is a fourfold increase in malnutrition in England
Monday, July 10th, 2023The Times has reported today that: Almost 11,000 people in England were hospitalised with malnutrition last year, as doctors warned that the cost of living
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It's no wonder that I have a huge deficit of trust in Labour politics
Monday, July 10th, 2023Wes Streeting – Labour’s shadow health secretary – wrote this in the Observer yesterday: Friday in my constituency summed up for me the state of
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It’s time the politicians opposed to our well-being stopped condemning Just Stop Oil protests.
Sunday, July 9th, 2023I put this on Twitter last night: All those years of austerity. The NHS in ruins as a result. The absence of any effective climate
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Newsnight missed the point on the NHS
Wednesday, June 28th, 2023Newsnight produced an asinine programme on the 75th anniversary of the NHS last night. It was bland, hyperbolic, and undemanding. It ended with a weird
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Critical: Why the NHS is being betrayed and how we can fight for it
Sunday, June 25th, 2023Some readers of this blog will be familiar with the work of Dr Julia Grace Patterson and the Every Doctor UK organisation she leads. It
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It's what George Osborne did to the NHS that lays bare the falsehoods in the claims he made yesterday
Wednesday, June 21st, 2023I thought this Tweet and the comment from Sir Michael Marmot a fascinating summary of yesterday’s evidence at the Covid inquiry, and especially the view
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David Cameron revealed his ignorance yesterday
Tuesday, June 20th, 2023As the BBC noted yesterday, former Prime Minister David Cameron appeared before the Covid inquiry yesterday. As they noted: Mr Cameron …. defended the austerity
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How to fund Labour’s £28 billion spending plan, and more
Tuesday, June 13th, 2023My Green New Deal Group and Finance for the Future colleague, Colin Hines, has this letter in the Guardian this morning: Your editorial (9 June)
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Our universities are just a part of Broken Britain
Thursday, June 1st, 2023This is from the Guardian this morning: University Vice Chancellors (who, as a group, are by far the biggest winners from the current system of
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