The failure of the NHS is not an accident - it was created by Tory design
Monday, January 2nd, 2023Those of us who fought hard against the Health and Social Care Act of 2012 (and I did, most especially on Twitter) always knew the
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Chaos, incompetence, inflation and long-Covid: 2022 in retrospect
Wednesday, December 28th, 20222022 was not a great year. It may go down as memorable because of war and all is consequences. But that’s not a reason to
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The government cannot win the NHS pay dispute
Wednesday, December 21st, 2022This chart comes from the FT: What is apparent is that the Covid crisis created a disconnect between public and private sector pay that it
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What brought us to this sorry state where almost everyone but politicians can see what needs to be done?
Monday, December 19th, 2022As many sources note this morning, strikes are continuing. The ambulance workers’ dispute this week will undoubtedly cause deaths, on which the right-wing media are
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The NHS is in urgent need of reform - to get rid of the legacy of the Tories
Friday, December 16th, 2022Sky News has reported that: Former health secretary Sajid Javid has warned that the NHS “won’t survive many more years” without “fundamental reforms”, urging the
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We need the return of the state
Tuesday, December 13th, 2022Neoliberalism is built on lies. For decades the deceit at its core has been ignored because it appeared to deliver prosperity. It does not any
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Sunak's talk of a £28bn cost of public sector pay rises is total CRAp
Saturday, December 10th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning: Rishi Sunak has claimed that to pay a 10% pay rise to all public sector employees will
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The Tories and Labour are united in seeking to promote boring politics
Tuesday, November 29th, 2022I took a week off from looking for things to write about here and during that time it seems that the strangest thing happened: politics
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£136 billion of wasted government spending when the NHS is being massively underfunded
Friday, November 18th, 2022I posted this thread on Twitter this morning, summarising this post in a more accessible way: The government is going to pay our commercial banks
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