My best hope is that Wes Streeting is incompetent, because every other option is worse given his hatred of the NHS
Monday, May 27th, 2024I guess I had to talk about Wes Streeting at some time during the course of this damp squib of an election campaign, because it
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Putting the N back into the NHS
Sunday, May 26th, 2024I posted this video on YouTube this morning. In it I argue that the NHS is a mess, created by meddling politicians who have broken it
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Rachel Reeves' crass claims on growth
Saturday, May 25th, 2024Rachel Reeves has said in the Daily Mail today that: Economic growth only comes from businesses: big, medium and small. Government’s role is to give
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Indy2024
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024Mike Parr is a regular commentator on this blog. Over recent weeks, he has been writing about setting up a support network for independent candidates
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Questions to ask politcians in this election
Thursday, May 23rd, 2024The most useful thing I think I can do this morning is suggest questions to ask politicians in this election. A thread. The following list
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The waiting is over
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024Sunak has cut and is running. The fact that he is heading for certain defeat does not seem to be a factor in his decision-making
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The real crisis facing Labour
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024As I have noted in another post this morning. Labour apparently thinks that the biggest crises that it will face that will have the power
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There's one simple solution to every crisis that Labour thinks it will face. All it has to do is tax the wealthy more.
Wednesday, May 22nd, 2024As the FT noted yesterday, Labour’s chief executive, Sue Gray, has drawn up a short list of crises that might hit a new Labour government.
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The cost of compensating victims of the contaminated blood scandal needn't require cuts in government spending
Monday, May 20th, 2024I posted this very short thread to Twitter last night: This story is going to be everywhere in the news over the next couple of
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