Nov 01 Cowper’s Cut 455: Capital cuts, consultant strikes and honest conversations Nov 1, 2026 6 min read
Oct 18 Cowper’s Cut 453: Dashing off an incredible, confused analysis of the state of the English NHS Oct 18, 2026 13 min read
Oct 04 Cowper’s Cut 451: The Madame Tussaudsification of national NHS leadership Prime Minister Andy Burnham’s passionately-delivered speech to the Labour Party conference was striking because of its content. As Oct 4, 2026 11 min read
Sep 27 Cowper’s Cut 450: Only post-election social care reform can save us now Sep 27, 2026 9 min read
Sep 20 Cowper’s Cut 448: Public inquiry fatigue hits the Thirlwall The Thirlwall Public Inquiry Report into the neonatal deaths currently regarded as murders by nurse Lucy Letby at the Countess Sep 20, 2026 8 min read
Sep 13 Cowper’s Cut 447: Is it all not going terribly well, then? Don’t look now, but people in and around The Mascara Administration might finally be starting to notice that median Sep 13, 2026 8 min read
Sep 06 Cowper’s Cut 446: Millyexit, or “human kind cannot bear very much reality” Let’s start with a rare bit of good news: Alan ‘Milly’ Milburn is on his way out of the Sep 6, 2026 7 min read