Nov

02

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

Nov 2, 2025

6 min read

Oct

26

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

Oct 26, 2025

8 min read

Oct

19

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

Oct 19, 2025

9 min read

Oct

12

Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections

Oct 12, 2025

9 min read

Oct

05

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

Oct 5, 2025

7 min read

Sep

28

Cowper’s Cut 395: The first virtual NHS redisorganisation is going so well

Sep 28, 2025

9 min read

Sep

21

Cowper’s Cut 394: The future isn’t what it used to be for Cosplay New Labour

I’ve been writing for a fair while now about my sense that (barring the current top priority of restoring

Sep 21, 2025

6 min read

Sep

14

Cowper’s Cut 393: English health policy enters its Skibidi Era

Writing accurately about English health policy and politics isn’t easy. Probably, nor should it be. The English NHS is

Sep 14, 2025

9 min read

Sep

07

Cowper’s Cut 392: Exit Music

Lyons made for the exit This week started so well for Sir Keir Starmer’s 10 Downing Street operation that

Sep 7, 2025

7 min read

Aug

31

Cowper’s Cut 391: The phony war of NHS reform

You won’t catch me pretending that this past week has been one of the more consequential or event-filled ones

Aug 31, 2025

7 min read