Wes Streeting is a disgrace
Monday, April 8th, 2024Labour’s Shadow Health Secretary, Wes Streeting, has been writing in The Sun and winning its support for his diagnosis for NHS reform. As they note:
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The Taxing Wealth Report 2024 - the launch video
Friday, April 5th, 2024This video, made by me and my son, Thomas, is an introduction to the Taxing Wealth Report 2024: The transcript is as follows: I wrote
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Jeremy Hunt's desperate appeal for money
Thursday, March 28th, 2024This is from what seems to be a genuine JustGiving appeals page: Yes, that is Jeremy Hunt, our Chancellor of the Exchequer. Rather than provide
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The NHS could be and should be, well funded so that it might deliver for the people of this country. That it does not do so is a result of Tory policy choice, not necessity
Wednesday, March 27th, 2024The NHS is under threat today, precisely because it is failing to deliver what the people of this country expect of it. A report in
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Evidence suggests that privatising healthcare services does not produce better health outcomes. So why is Labour so keen on doing this?
Tuesday, March 26th, 2024The medical journal, The Lancet has published a paper this month with the following heading: The Summary of the piece is as follows: Over the
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Will Hutton’s praise for Rachel Reeves’ Mais lecture is itself a pretty depressing foretaste of the disaster that Labour will be.
Sunday, March 24th, 2024Like many, I was confused by Will Hutton’s arguments in The Observer today, in which he argued that Rachael Reeves has given Britain “the plan for
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The UK does not have a national debt but does instead offer a range of national savings products
Thursday, March 14th, 2024My evidence to the House of Lords Economic Affairs committee on the sustainability of the UK’s national debt is now available on the parliamentary website;
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£10 million of private donations to a political party are corrupting
Wednesday, March 13th, 2024A person made rich by Tory NHS outsourcing contracts yesterday appeared to admit saying: It’s like trying not to be racist but you see Diane Abbott
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Why is everything so difficult for Rachel Reeves?
Monday, March 11th, 2024I watched some of Rachael Reeves’ interviews over the weekend. I have seen many before. One of the recurring themes is that she is not
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