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  • Andy Burnham’s unhealthy flag wrapping claptrap

    I’ve written a response to Andy Burnham’s astounding Guardian article on the NHS on the SLF website: Given the choice between “national”, “health” and “service” the word that Burnham considers most key to the Labour approach is the former. Ignore “health”, never mind “service” – who needs a bandage when you can wrap yourself in…

  • When rightwhingers demand nuance, count the spoons…

    The Right isn’t particularly famed for its sense of nuance. The shenanigans going on in the US over healthcare rather suggest that and even the touchy-feely Cameroons are not exactly strangers to Mister Brickbat. Yet when lefties employ the same tactics (as is the nature of politics), they suddenly lurch up on their hindlegs and…

  • Bad Faith Awards: it’s like being asked to choose between my children!

    How on Earth is anyone supposed to be able to pick a winner amongst this set on bozos shortlisted in the New Humanist’s Bad Faith Awards? It makes you realise quite what a year it has been on the culture wars front. Personally, on reflection, I’ve gone for the governors of St Monica’s School, Prestwich…

  • The NHS: my tax money at work

    I managed to fill in a registration form for my local surgery today, on my second attempt. To be clear, I didn’t actually register – that is a formal appointment next Wednesday. But they did at least let me fill in the registration form, which I have to do before I can have the registration,…

  • Why class still matters

    There have been a series of articles in the Guardian over the past week that have made it clear that class is still a very real issue and demands a Liberal Democrat response. First, John Harris wrote about the impact of right to buy on Tuesday. Then, Felicity Lawrence wrote about the politics behind Jamie…