On the trail…
…with the March for the NHS A few shots from another wonderful gathering arranged by the People’s Vote for the NHS. It was held in Nottingham on March 28th, with a large crowd marching from the Forest...
View ArticleFallen angels?
My first feature in the debut edition of PRN Magazine, a new online title dedicated to the nursing profession. I was approached by the founder to cover medical politics and nursing, and this feature,...
View ArticleElection special: PRN Magazine
A special election report for PRN Magazine analysing the main party manifestos and how nurses felt they were being represented in the campaigns....
View ArticleI’m voting to save the NHS
I’m embarrassed to admit, that I used to dismiss talk of the ways the NHS was changing. I’d read a few things, but never really understood what it all meant. I never really grasped the true nature of...
View ArticleWe tried
I won’t lie, I felt pretty abject on May 8th. So many hopes shattered, so many people now entering frightening unknowns, feeling insecure, threatened, battle-weary; so much disappointment, so many...
View ArticleThe blind faith of the right (+what’s left for the left)
‘Sanctioned’ by Dani Lafez. Dani’s artwork is for sale here – proceeds go to arthritis research. The blind faith of the right (and what’s left for the Left) Dani is a very poorly lady. Severe...
View ArticleThe market is reaping as Jeremy Hunt sows
This article appeared on Open Democracy: Our NHS on Tuesday June 2 The market is reaping as Jeremy Hunt sows Tough talk by the Health Secretary on NHS agency costs belies the fact that the problem...
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View ArticleThe time bomb at the heart of the NHS
This article appeared in the New Statesman on July 1st 2015 Staffing: the time bomb at the heart of the NHS There’s an unnerving continuity at the Department of Health: a maddeningly consistent split...
View ArticleGreece: a word from the wise
From Will Hutton’s Them and Us (2010); Chapter 6 ‘Blind Capital’ “The new credit default swap (CDS) was meant to insure the holder of a security against default, but in fact it did little more than...
View ArticleThe quiet exodus of GPs
This article appeared in the New Statesman in July 2015 George Osborne quietly slipped into his budget some news that the medical staff perhaps dreaded, perhaps didn’t even imagine was possible: the...
View ArticleNursing in crisis
This piece appeared in PRN Magazine in July 2015 Nursing in crisis: The disappearing numbers A pay-freeze, a row over safe staffing and new rules to kick thousands of nurses out of the country: it’s...
View Article#weneedtotalkaboutjeremy
New Statesman, July 28th 2015 We need to talk about Jeremy: why doctors are so angry with Jeremy Hunt [1] Jeremy Hunt is at the centre with another row with the medical profession. What’s going on? by...
View ArticleThe right wing does the NHS
I realise that Douglas Murray, associate director of the Henry Jackson Society and polemic Spectator columnist, may have ideological even political reasons to bemoan the “perils of a socialised...
View ArticleThere is no closure – just grief
New Statesman, August 28th 2015 The headlines about “parity of esteem” between mental and physical health remain just that, warns Benedict Cooper. I don’t need to look very far to find the little black...
View ArticleThe Spokesman
An article I co-wrote with Zenn Athar for the Nottingham We Deserve campaigning newsletter was reproduced in The Spokesman, the publication founded by Bertrand Russell. The article is below. The city...
View ArticleI hate rugby
I HONESTLY don’t think I’ve ever watched a game of rugby in a pub where someone in the vicinity hasn’t turned to someone else, maybe even me, to explain why it’s ‘just better than football’. Or how...
View Article‘The triumph of Corbynism is the death rattle of New Labour’
This piece appeared in the New Statesman on August 18th 2015 Perhaps the ultimate tribute to Tony Blair is that his trademark brand of politics, the mastery of style-over-content, is alive and well in...
View ArticleWhy didn’t Cameron give Dan Hodges a peerage?
“It’s not the professional Labourphobia and ceaseless smearing of the Left that bothers me. It’s Dan’s total unwillingness to hold the Conservatives to account”. Andrew Lansley got one, and his Health...
View ArticleAddenbrooke’s hospital is just the canary in the coal mine as far as the NHS...
First published in the New Statesman A toxic cocktail of under-pressure local authorities and low staffing has the NHS on the brink. By Benedict Cooper Among the grim litany of charges laid out in the...
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