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Apr
26
Cowper’s Cut 425: The monkey and the organ-grinder

Cowper’s Cut 425: The monkey and the organ-grinder

It’s almost a pleasure to be writing this week about Alan ‘Bouncer’ Milburn, the organ-grinder of Team Milburn-Streeting; rather
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Apr
19
Cowper’s Cut 424: Health Secretary Wes Streeting to fight the power of Health Secretary Wes Streeting

Cowper’s Cut 424: Health Secretary Wes Streeting to fight the power of Health Secretary Wes Streeting

Wes Streeting, the rail replacement bus service of Health Secretaries, has been all over The Discourse this week. It takes
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Apr
12
Cowper’s Cut 423: The ‘W1A’ification of the NHS

Cowper’s Cut 423: The ‘W1A’ification of the NHS

Health But Social Care Secretary Young Master Wesley Streeting has excelled himself. This is as scant an achievement as it
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Apr
05
Cowper’s Cut 422: Let their members vote on a deal? The BMA Resident Doctors Committee would prefer not to

Cowper’s Cut 422: Let their members vote on a deal? The BMA Resident Doctors Committee would prefer not to

The BMA Resident Doctors 2008 Pay Differential Historical Re-Enactment Society, perhaps more widely known as the British Medical Association’s
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Mar
29
Cowper’s Cut 421: Make Young Master Wesley Streeting Grate Again!

Cowper’s Cut 421: Make Young Master Wesley Streeting Grate Again!

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Mar
22
Cowper’s Cut 420: Singing the Higgs Boson Blues with the Department Of Implausible Solutions

Cowper’s Cut 420: Singing the Higgs Boson Blues with the Department Of Implausible Solutions

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Mar
15
Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan?

Cowper’s Cut 419: You mean people don’t like having their jobs abolished incompetently and without any real plan?

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Mar
08
Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars

Cowper’s Cut 418: Culture wars

The politics and policy of the NHS in England may not actually be dead, but they do seem quite dead-adjacent.
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Mar
01
Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel

Cowper’s Cut 417: Inertia reel

The interim report of the ‘Independent Investigation into Maternity and Neonatal Services in England’ chaired by Labour peer Baroness Valerie
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Feb
22
Cowper’s Cut 416: Greige Expectations and Stuck Record Syndrome

Cowper’s Cut 416: Greige Expectations and Stuck Record Syndrome

The past couple of months of more or less uninterrupted rain and lack of sun has amounted to greige weather.
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