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May
25

Editorial Tuesday 25 May 2021: The new 2021 lockdown trend

Excuse me? Actually announcing new lockdown restrictions? Out loud, in the real world? (Always fashionably too late, obvs.) Oh pur-lease,
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May
03

Editorial Thursday 29 April 2021: Sir Simon Stevens steps down as NHS Commissioning Board CE

It has been simultaneously an open secret, and a jealously guarded one (the date, that is, not the announcement). This
5 min read
Apr
30

Editorial Friday 30 April 2021: Who's next? Post-Stevensism, the Mencken Fallacy and the art of the impertinent question

Since yesterday's announcement of the abdication of The Sun King Of Skipton House, Sir Simon Stevens [https://www.
3 min read
Apr
30

Editorial Friday 5 February 2021: Exclusive - Key points and analysis of the Government's new Health White Paper

“The Health and Social Care Act 2012 put a regime in place which put competition as the organising principle for
6 min read
Apr
16

Editorial Thu 15 April 2021: 'Alan's Big Pocket': Hancock given 15% shareholding in sister's NHS £150K contract-winning company

Meet Emily Gilruth [https://www.badminton-horse.co.uk/biography/2017/emily-gilruth/]. She's a jockey. She had a significant
1 min read
Mar
31

Editorial Wednesday 31 March 2021: Why did Open Democracy misleadingly claim it won its Palantir court case against NHS England?

I'm a fan of the idea of crowdfunding, and of insurgent media organisations holding the powerful to account.
1 min read
Mar
26

Editorial Friday 26 March 2021: From The Sun King to a mere Prince of Wales - NHS 'England' comms boss Simon Enright is off

Simon's off. No, not that Simon: the other Simon. The demotion from being director of communications for The
1 min read
Mar
26

Editorial Thursday 25 March 2021: Weird Government: up-talking Matt and outsourcing accountability for TAT

My latest column for BMJ is here [https://blogs.bmj.com/bmj/2021/03/19/andy-cowper-an-aria-of-revenge-sung-by-dominic-cummings/] , and my latest for
3 min read
Mar
17

Editorial Wednesday 17 March 2021: Hancock's half-witted hopes to re-politicise top NHS appointments

There are only a limited number of new ideas in the world. There are also only a certain number of
2 min read
Mar
17

Editorial Tuesday 16 March 2021: The Government's Covid19 blame game - pattern recognition and kitchen sink surrealism

'Kitchen sink realism' [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kitchen_sink_realism] was the portmanteau term given to new
4 min read