Later this year my younger brother will complete his degree in medicine. At the same time, in a wonderful moment of symmetry, our father will retire from the NHS after 35 years. ...Read More
Energised by a dose of caffeine, the promise of a politically-galvanised crowd and a speakers list including Ed Balls, Chuka Umunna and Ken Livingstone, I set off on Saturday morning to attend the Annual Fabian Conference, titled The Economic Alternative. ...Read More
Yesterday’s reports that a recently proposed amendment to the Health & Social Care Bill could see National Health Service foundation hospitals allowed to raise nearly half of their funding through private work have generated predictably stormy responses....Read More
I was born in 1983. This was the year that Michael Foot’s Labour Party published a manifesto that would come to be known as the ‘longest suicide note in history.’...Read More
Despite the drama of Liam Fox’s resignation, which will soon be a forgotten story (a week is a long time in politics), I think it is fair to say that David Cameron and his Team will be happy with the outcome from the Party Conference season. ...Read More
The dust has settled, quite literally, on the English cities that experienced rioting over the last week. However, we are now once again seeing clashes of a different kind, and it’s back to business as usual in the perpetual struggle of Opposition vs. Government. ...Read More
Despite promises to “fix our broken political system” in the wake of the expenses scandal, the conduct of the respective AV campaigns has shown that for all the fine words, little progress has been made....Read More
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