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Dec
07
Cowper’s Cut 405: What’s the difference between Wes Streeting and Matt Hancock?

Cowper’s Cut 405: What’s the difference between Wes Streeting and Matt Hancock?

What’s the difference between Wes Streeting and Matt Hancock? This might just be the health policy and politics version
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Nov
30
Cowper’s Cut 404: 2025’s Catch-22 of English health policy and politics - action on fiscal balance, or the RTT backlog?

Cowper’s Cut 404: 2025’s Catch-22 of English health policy and politics - action on fiscal balance, or the RTT backlog?

“After last year’s general election was called, one hedge fund commissioned detailed research on Labour … who Labour’s MPs
10 min read
Nov
23
Cowper’s Cut 403: It’s a big mess, you say?

Cowper’s Cut 403: It’s a big mess, you say?

13 min read
Nov
16
Cowper’s Cut 402: Can’t they both lose?

Cowper’s Cut 402: Can’t they both lose?

10 min read
Nov
09
Cowper’s Cut 401: ‘Resident doctors revolting? Try this one weird trick: petulance!’

Cowper’s Cut 401: ‘Resident doctors revolting? Try this one weird trick: petulance!’

7 min read
Nov
02
Cowper’s Cut 400: When is a choice not a choice? When it’s another vintage week for Team Milburn-Streeting

Cowper’s Cut 400: When is a choice not a choice? When it’s another vintage week for Team Milburn-Streeting

“When the PM and Secretary of State for Health and Social Care published the NHS 10-Year Plan on 3 July
6 min read
Oct
26
Cowper’s Cut 399: Now we rise, and we are everywhere

Cowper’s Cut 399: Now we rise, and we are everywhere

8 min read
Oct
19
Cowper’s Cut 398: Only really bad ideas can save us now

Cowper’s Cut 398: Only really bad ideas can save us now

My variations on the theme of Labour’s clue-deficit on health policy and politics are, alas, with us yet again
9 min read
Oct
12
Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections

Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections

“And thus do we of wisdom and of reach, With windlasses and with assays of bias, By indirections find directions
9 min read
Oct
05
Cowper’s Cut 396: Buying time for Wes Streeting’s Imaginary NHS Friend

Cowper’s Cut 396: Buying time for Wes Streeting’s Imaginary NHS Friend

It’s hard to see what the Government’s NHS theory of change is. This may be because they haven’
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