Dec
07
Cowper’s Cut 405: What’s the difference between Wes Streeting and Matt Hancock?
8 min read
Mr Andy Cowper
Nov
30
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?
“In Whitehall we were very worried about the promises they (Labour) made before the election on not raising taxes because
13 min read
Nov
16
Cowper’s Cut 402: Can’t they both lose?
On the one hand, we have the BMA resident doctors committee pursuing the chimera of the Dolphin “principle” of The
10 min read
Nov
09
Cowper’s Cut 401: ‘Resident doctors revolting? Try this one weird trick: petulance!’
Petulance is never a great quality in a person: nor is it in Secretary Of State For Health But Social
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
“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
“We need reform of the state, reform of our public services, reform of the economy, and only by doing those
8 min read
Oct
19
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
“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
It’s hard to see what the Government’s NHS theory of change is. This may be because they haven’
7 min read