Aug 23 Cowper’s Cut 444: Is A&G making the primary-secondary interface more aggy? Aug 23, 2026 9 min read
Aug 02 Cowper’s Cut 441: On the three broken psychological contracts and the many unresolved tensions affecting the English NHS I’m sort of on holiday at the moment: instead of a column this week (and since there have been Aug 2, 2026 23 min read
Jul 29 Cowper’s Cut 440: “And would you like cuttings of long grass with your adult social care reform?” Jul 29, 2026 4 min read
Jul 26 Cowper’s Cut 439: Make NHS decentralisation grate again There is no point in wasting any of our time together analysing various speculative articles in the national media (particularly Jul 26, 2026 5 min read
Jul 21 Cowper’s Cut 438: Yvette Cooper is the new Secretary Of State For Health But Social Care Pontefract, Castleford and Knottingley Labour MP Yvette Cooper has been moved from Home Secretary (one of the Four Great Offices Jul 21, 2026 5 min read
Jul 19 Cowper’s Cut 437: Devolutionary new PM Andy Burnham arrives to a centralising NHS Bill. Will the price be a 2026 Croydon List? The Mascoronation has been and gone. On Friday, new MP for Makerfield, The Mascara Kid Andy Burnham was elected unopposed Jul 19, 2026 9 min read
Jul 12 Cowper’s Cut 436: When is abolishing NHS England not abolishing NHS England? Quite a few ‘Cut’ readers already know what I’m about to describe, but it remains worth setting it down Jul 12, 2026 11 min read