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,
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
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.
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
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
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.
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
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
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
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