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May
28

Editorial Wednesday 26 May 2021: The People’s Dominic Show

It’s The People’s Dominic Show day. The PM’s former chief advisor is giving evidence to the Commons
25 min read
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,
1 min read
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