Academic book reviews tend to take a long time before they appear in print. Some take longer than others. David Cameron was still Prime Minister when I promised to write a review of Armine Ishkanian and Simon Szreter's edited collection on the 'big society' for the journal Cultural and Social History. By the time I …
Those undeserving ‘other people’: from Obamacare to Brexit
Sarah Kliff said an interesting thing recently. Of course, the Vox senior editor says a lot of interesting things. If you're at all interested in the twists and turns of US healthcare politics you should absolutely being following what she says. But one thing she said recently particularly jumped out at me. Talking on Vox's …
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The NHS’s missing £350million a week
A couple of months back I wrote a short piece for the People's History of the NHS blog comparing the way healthcare featured in both the UK's EU referendum campaign and the Australian federal election. Following the news that the campaign slogan/promise (delete depending upon political stance) has been quietly but officially dropped - of …