Andrew Gimson’s Commons sketch: Johnson’s former adviser gives us politics as a disaster movie

Spoiler alert. At the end of the movie, the space ship is saved, though only after an horrifically high number of those on board have died.

Robert Ede and Sean Phillips: The Government faces an election run-up monopolised by reports of NHS waiting times and delays

The third in a mini-series of articles on ConHome this week about healthcare after Covid.

Nick Hoile: Beware of an unintended consequence of mastering Covid – a winter flu crisis later this year

Ministers cannot afford to get complacent – here are the steps they should take to prepare.

Shifting health policy leftwards?

A move from Ken Clarke to Aneurin Bevan would not only risk harming the NHS, but miss the real target of reform: social care.

The Education Secretary must lead school openings in less than a month. Which is why his Department needs new leadership now.

Johnson will almost certainly decide to tough it out. But he will have a big problem if school returns prove tricky.

Introducing Johnson, Hancock and Cummings’ new Red Wall-friendly, Labour-style NHS

The Government is poised to reverse the trend to competition rather than collaboration that has marked healthcare policy for 30 years.

Daily press conferences – and what should happen next

Needed during the coming weeks: a Government information campaign for older people, their families, employers and businesses.

Iain Dale: My hunch is that employers will pay for this NHS spending spree

Plus: Shame on the Conservative whips. And away with Julian Assange: most of us would happily pay his airfare.

We can’t just tax our way to a better NHS

Yes, some rises are inevitable. But they must be balanced by spending reductions elsewhere if economic policy is to be practicable and coherent.

Hammond’s economicky survivorish escapy Budget

The lack of a Conservative Commons majority prevented the Chancellor from doing much more than playing it safe – which he did effectively.

WATCH: Hammond impressed by how NHS chief “fights his corner”

“In the run-up to Budget people running all kinds of services come to see us and they always have very large numbers which are absolutely essential otherwise Armageddon will arrive.”

The NHS versus pensioner welfare – what happens when sacred cows compete?

The Health Service’s Chief Executive has said what many politicians are too nervous to even whisper.

Phil Taylor: Hunt is right about a seven day working NHS

This is a straight industrial dispute about pay, and high falutin rhetoric about patient safety, privatisation and all the rest is just that.

Andrew Haldenby: Why now is the time to rally round Jeremy Hunt

Downing Street and Conservative MPs should not abandon this reforming Health Secretary under pressure from the BMA and the unions.

Hugh Byrne: The healthcare reactionaries of the NHS Action Party

They and other similar groups are a minor curiosity in this election, but they are a sign of a culture to the left of Labour in parts of our healthcare system.