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
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-
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
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
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’
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
Cowper’s Cut 420: Singing the Higgs Boson Blues with the Department Of Implausible Solutions
In English health policy and politics as in life, there are less important weeks. This one just past has been
Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan?
It doesn’t seem remarkable that the Health Foundation’s newly-released interviews with integrated care system leaders found a
Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars
The politics and policy of the NHS in England may not actually be dead, but they do seem quite dead-
Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel
The interim report of the ‘Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England’ chaired by Labour peer Baroness Valerie
