May
24
Cowper’s Cut 429: “Honesty is the best thing”
7 min read
Mr Andy Cowper
May
18
Why you should subscribe to ‘Cowper’s Cut’
This is my intermittent marketing push to ask registered users to subscribe to Health Policy Insight: home of 'Cowper&
4 min read
May
17
Cowper’s Cut 428: The misfiring timing and inevitable exit of Young Master Wesley Streeting
‘Oh the Grand Old Duke of Ilford North,
He had eighty-one men:
He marched them up to the top
11 min read
May
10
Cowper’s Cut 427: Predictions about the future
It’s delightful to discover that the widely-attributed quote “I’ve never made predictions about the future, and I
3 min read
May
03
Cowper’s Cut 426: A Streeting named desire
Like nostalgia, the gift of prophecy isn’t what it used to be. Still, it seems clear from opinion polling
6 min read
Apr
26
Cowper’s Cut 425: The monkey and the organ-grinder
It’s almost a pleasure to be writing this week about Alan ‘Bouncer’ Milburn, the organ-grinder of Team Milburn-
7 min read
Apr
19
Cowper’s Cut 424: Health Secretary Wes Streeting to fight the power of Health Secretary Wes Streeting
Wes Streeting, the rail replacement bus service of Health Secretaries, has been all over The Discourse this week.
It takes
7 min read
Apr
12
Cowper’s Cut 423: The ‘W1A’ification of the NHS
Health But Social Care Secretary Young Master Wesley Streeting has excelled himself. This is as scant an achievement as it
10 min read
Apr
05
Cowper’s Cut 422: Let their members vote on a deal? The BMA Resident Doctors Committee would prefer not to
The BMA Resident Doctors 2008 Pay Differential Historical Re-Enactment Society, perhaps more widely known as the British Medical Association’
10 min read
Mar
29
Cowper’s Cut 421: Make Young Master Wesley Streeting Grate Again!
The latest set of health questions in the 2025 edition of the long-running British Social Attitudes survey find a
11 min read