Oct
12
Cowper’s Cut 397: Indirections
“And thus do we of wisdom and of reach,
With windlasses and with assays of bias,
By indirections find directions
9 min read
Mr Andy Cowper
Oct
05
Cowper’s Cut 396: Buying time for Wes Streeting’s Imaginary NHS Friend
It’s hard to see what the Government’s NHS theory of change is. This may be because they haven’
7 min read
Sep
28
Cowper’s Cut 395: The first virtual NHS redisorganisation is going so well
For the first time in what feels like a long time, we have the luxury of starting with genuinely good
9 min read
Sep
21
Cowper’s Cut 394: The future isn’t what it used to be for Cosplay New Labour
I’ve been writing for a fair while now about my sense that (barring the current top priority of restoring
6 min read
Sep
14
Cowper’s Cut 393: English health policy enters its Skibidi Era
Writing accurately about English health policy and politics isn’t easy.
Probably, nor should it be. The English NHS is
9 min read
Sep
07
Cowper’s Cut 392: Exit Music
Lyons made for the exit
This week started so well for Sir Keir Starmer’s 10 Downing Street operation that
7 min read
Aug
31
Cowper’s Cut 391: The phony war of NHS reform
You won’t catch me pretending that this past week has been one of the more consequential or event-filled ones
7 min read
Aug
25
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3 min read
Aug
24
Cowper’s Cut 390: ‘Kiss my rebate’, Streeting tells pharma, putting the V into VPAG
‘Cut’ readers won’t have failed to notice the pharmaceutical industry’s recent months of less-than-subtle lobbying against the Voluntary
9 min read
Aug
17
Cowper’s Cut 389: An Augustine heatwave
Imagine my surprise to learn that Health But Social Care Secretary told listeners to LBC Radio that there won’t
8 min read