Wise people are urging caution. Our ministers are responding with reckless indifference to the people of this country.
Sunday, November 28th, 2021It is rare that the difference between politics and the scientific method is so starkly seen as it is this weekend. I read a great
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If you thought Covid was all over now might be the time too think again
Saturday, November 27th, 2021I think it fair to say that I have never been a Covid optimist. Since February 2020 I have felt that those believing that Covid
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Cos you can’t trust the Tories with the NHS
Saturday, November 27th, 2021This is so good: New poem on my blog – 'TRUST' https://t.co/9W6EszKwrK @MichaelRosenYes #JohnsonOut #BooTheBill #NHSPrivatisation pic.twitter.com/WgvXM4aKWT — Joshua Seigal – 'YAPPING AWAY' out now!
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As the Prime Minister waffles on about Peppa Pig the NHS is being dismantled. It is entirely possible that his behaviour is designed to distract from that fact.
Tuesday, November 23rd, 2021As the BBC notes, this is the measure that Tory MPs voted for last night: As I have previously noted, this graphic representation is of
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We are heading for a massive healthcare crisis by ministerial choice
Monday, November 15th, 2021According to the Guardian, a report that they have seen suggests: People are dying in the back of ambulances and up to 160,000 more a
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The Green New Deal is about unification around a new vision of society
Saturday, November 13th, 2021This letter from my fellow Green New FDeal Group members, Caroline Lucas MP and Clive Lewis MP, was in the Guardian today, referring to the
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Sunday morning differences
Sunday, October 31st, 2021Sunday morning differences of opinion on LBC. The link does not include all my counter-arguments on the NHS market and on nurses pay. The one
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The problem with water companies - and how to solve it
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021I was asked yesterday by a friend who is an accountant what I thought about the problems in water companies. This was my reply: What
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Sunak’s badly misread the cards he’s been dealt. We’re not entering an era of optimism, at least with this government in charge
Wednesday, October 27th, 2021This is going to be a weird Budget Day. After seven days of pre-Budget announcements from the Treasury Politico has summarised the announcements made: HMT
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