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Nov
16
Cowper’s Cut 402: Can’t they both lose?

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
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Nov
09
Cowper’s Cut 401: ‘Resident doctors revolting? Try this one weird trick: petulance!’

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
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Nov
02
Cowper’s Cut 400: When is a choice not a choice? When it’s another vintage week for Team Milburn-Streeting

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
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Oct
26
Cowper’s Cut 399: Now we rise, and we are everywhere

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
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Oct
19
Cowper’s Cut 398: Only really bad ideas can save us now

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
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Oct
12
Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections

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
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Oct
05
Cowper’s Cut 396: Buying time for Wes Streeting’s Imaginary NHS Friend

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’
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Sep
28
Cowper’s Cut 395: The first virtual NHS redisorganisation is going so well

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

For the first time in what feels like a long time, we have the luxury of starting with genuinely good
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Sep
21
Cowper’s Cut 394: The future isn’t what it used to be for Cosplay New Labour

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
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Sep
14
Cowper’s Cut 393: English health policy enters its Skibidi Era

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
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