Labour screech about a so-called ‘privatisation of the NHS’ – but it is one which they energetically began.
Our faiths, secular philosophies and religions all too often seem wishy-washed over with a tame aura of tepid “niceness”.
Why does anyone at Westminster or elsewhere still give him the time of day?
There are big, brave, politically difficult discussions that we need to have as a nation, if we want to save our NHS from going over a cliff.
Bude Surf Club, and the lifesaving job it qualified me to do, drilled into me that words are no substitute for action.
It would be a national disaster if the momentary satisfaction of an emotional protest elects a politician like Ed Milliband.
Instead of the intimidating monolith of a government department, the foodbank offers a live human being to help diagnose and then navigate anothers’ problem.
A new report shows the way. But there is a limit to what it can do to prevent the EU endangering patients and de-professionalising doctors.
The current political divides do not reflect the reality of the public’s difference of opinion.
What gets the Party’s MPs angry isn’t the suffering of patients, but threats to a system in which they have a vested interest.
The Westminster system prizes being seen and heard, regardless of whether all the activity makes a difference.
Blair’s political appointments to quangos were 75 per cent Labour. Now we need to depoliticise the whole system.
For MPs, legislating at Westminster and working in constituencies are complementary roles.
in gaining the prize of liberating women to work, the pendulum may have swung too far the other way.