Mar 15 Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan? Mar 15, 2026 7 min read
Feb 01 Cowper’s Cut 412: Letting down the Treasury Munchkins is a niche move Dave West of Health Service Journal has this cracking exclusive about a secret funding deal between HM Treasury and the Feb 1, 2026 7 min read
Jan 25 Cowper’s Cut 411: “I don’t think we’re centralising at all!” After 26 years of writing about the politics, policy and management of the English NHS, I’m surprised that I Jan 25, 2026 9 min read
Jan 18 Cowper’s Cut 410: The age of miracles “This excuses culture does the centre-left no favours. If we tell the public that we can’t make anything work, Jan 18, 2026 10 min read
Jan 11 Cowper’s Cut 409: People who need people The appointment of Danny Mortimer as the Department For Health But Social Care’s and NHS England’s new director-general Jan 11, 2026 7 min read