Argument for the day - the real cause of the NHS crisis
Monday, January 9th, 2023This is an experiment. The content is real enough. The sound may not be good enough – I forgot the ‘furry’ hood for the microphone
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Why Labour is wrong about reforming the GP contract at a time when the NHS is in crisis
Monday, January 9th, 2023I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I criticised Labour, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting for their comments on GPs and their financing
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Blogging in 2023
Sunday, January 8th, 2023I am grateful for all the comments on this blog at present. They are considerably outnumbering the number of words I have to offer. That
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Labour should not be attacking GPs unless they too are in the business of undermining the NHS
Sunday, January 8th, 2023A couple of days ago Wes Streeting, Labour’s shadow health secretary, attacked GPs, saying their finances are murky, in the process obviously seeking to blame
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Sunak and Starmer: the two sides of failing first-part-the post politics
Friday, January 6th, 2023I commented on Keir Starmer’s ‘vision’ speech a number of times yesterday, mainly by reproducing tweets I had posted during and after its delivery. The
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Labour's plans for localism make no sense without radical reforms in the NHS and education, and without a lot more money, none of which were promised
Thursday, January 5th, 2023Sometimes my Twitter timeline is me thinking out loud. These posts were me thinking about how Labour’s ‘big idea’ on localism might impact the way
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Sunak is failing
Thursday, January 5th, 2023Rishi Sunak clearly thinks that people in the UK are more worried about the 40,000 or so people a year trying to get here in
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We need more anger: change depends upon it
Wednesday, January 4th, 2023I shared this thread on Twitter this morning: I wrote a blog post yesterday that was surprisingly popular. Based on observation of behaviour witnessed during
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Never has the compliance of a generation been so effectively and disastrously bought
Tuesday, January 3rd, 2023I was out birdwatching yesterday afternoon as the holiday drew to a close. Not wishing to venture far I went to Welney, a local reserve
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