Cowper’s Cut 359: A farewell to fiction
In 2019, I wrote in the BMJ of the Boris Johnson government’s health pledges, “the Tory manifesto has an
Cowper’s Cut 358: Towards NHSCapital
It’s only January, but Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting may already have made 2025’s most futile
Cowper’s Cut 357: Plumbing the depths of winter
Exit, pursued by a barefaced ketamine-addled tech bro
If The Ketamine Kid (nepo baby, milkfloat vendor and neo-far-right populist Elon
Cowper’s Cut 356: Labour’s health policy relaunch and their Shatner’s Bassoon problem
If it’s early January 2025, then it must be Labour’s English NHS policy relaunch.
General election 2024 results
Cowper’s Cut 355: Tier and loathing in the English NHS
Well, I suppose that you could claim that 2024 was fun, after a fashion - all depending on your personal
An NHS Christmas Carol
By Craig Nikolic
Our tale begins with a bitter and unhappy NHS senior manager, wondering about another year where nothing
Cowper’s Cut 354: Will the real Wes Streeting please stand up?
Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting is a man in a hurry.
This is true both literally (in his
Cowper’s Cut 353: Into winter
Having spent most of last week’s column writing about Labour’s evident lack of a health policy that confronts
Cowper’s Cut 352: From measurable milestones to millstones
I tell myself the story that I don’t like to be more unpleasant than is strictly necessary. I also
Cowper’s Cut 351: Inflation in the price of financial lying
Cowper’s Cut: The price of financial lyingThe NHS will have to pay the price for cultivating a culture of
