The NHS does not require a hypothecated tax: it needs additional spending
Wednesday, January 10th, 2018The FT says this morning that: The latest winter crisis to hit the NHS – and the knowledge that an ageing population will only intensify
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‘Please let me continue with my privatisation of the NHS Theresa, please’
Tuesday, January 9th, 2018Jeremy Hunt pleaded for his job as Health Secretary yesterday, and kept it. Why did he plead? For those on trolleys in A&E? I don’t
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Open letter re KPMG and the Grenfell Tower inquiry
Sunday, January 7th, 2018I have co-signed the following letter, which has been reported by the Guardian: We the undersigned, call upon the Cabinet Office and Prime Minister Theresa
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The FT admits it: Corbyn is coming
Friday, January 5th, 2018The FT is running a most amusing feature today: It’s amusing because of the hysteria that lies just below the surface within it. It’s amusing
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The threat to the NHS
Wednesday, January 3rd, 2018We have another NHS crisis. It will cost lives, unnecessarily. It will cause untold long term harm as staff give up, voluntarily or otherwise, under
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The 2018 quiz of the year
Friday, December 29th, 2017I am not sure I have the energy to do a review of 2017. Let’s just say May blew it, with Trump running her a
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When May fails this week we'll be searching hard for reasons to be cheerful
Monday, December 4th, 2017Theresa May has taken personal responsibility for Brexit negotiations. And has failed to make a breakthrough, so far. Whatever has been agreed on money and
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Austerity has succeeded in its aim: the lives of a few have been enriched at cost to hundreds of thousands more now living in poverty
Monday, December 4th, 2017The Guardian reports this morning that: Hundreds of thousands of children and older people have been plunged into poverty in the past four years, according
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A budget for padding and missing the point
Wednesday, November 22nd, 2017What a budget: Philip Hammond said he would consider measures to tackle the growth in the use of plastics during the budget and yet this
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