The NHS is failing and the only people to blame are the Tories
Monday, April 11th, 2022The Guardian reports an interview with Dr Katherine Henderson, the president of the Royal College of Emergency Medicine this morning. As she has noted, pressure
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The Tories are the enemy of the survival of human life here on earth
Monday, April 11th, 2022The Sunak story (on which I am still broadcasting this morning, suggesting that it is not going away as yet) has distracted me from other
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Sunak needs to be sacked, and be free to leave
Friday, April 8th, 2022I spent yesterday writing about the technicalities of domicile as they might impact Rishi Sunak’s wife. But that’s because her tax decisions cast doubt on
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Covid is all about the politics of denial now, for which we will pay a very high price
Thursday, March 31st, 2022This is the latest data on the number of patients in the UK in hospital with Covid: Thankfully fewer are needing ICU treatment: But it
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The economic and political consequences of Rishi Sunak's failure.
Saturday, March 26th, 2022I have posted this thread on Twitter today. I admit that even I think it’s a bit long for that medium, but equally think it
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In case you thought Covid had gone away, it most definitely has not
Tuesday, March 22nd, 2022Yesterday Sajid Javid, the Health Secretary, said we need not worry about Covid any more as we are ‘past its peak’. Dr Rachel Clarke has
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Rishi Sunak is the leader of the neoliberal pack when it comes to indifference towards the fate of ordinary people, whether in Ukraine or the UK
Friday, March 18th, 2022A theme emerged yesterday. It was of government and business indifference to real people. P&O, backed by Dubai – which is a key government ally
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The NHS is not safe with the Tories. Not only do they want to undermine it, they're also succeeding in doing so.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2022The House of Commons Public Accounts Committee has published a new report this morning that is damning of Tory NHS management. Remember that this is
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The absence of any sort of strategic thinking within the government is why we're in a mess now
Monday, March 14th, 2022This morning’s newspapers, mixed with some comment from Sunday’s, reveal a continued confusion at the heart of UK economic and political policy that suggests how
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