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Feb
23
Cowper’s Cut 363: When all you’ve got is financial lying, everything looks like capital-to-revenue transfers

Cowper’s Cut 363: When all you’ve got is financial lying, everything looks like capital-to-revenue transfers

The Labour government highlighted their early (relative) win of getting the extra two million diagnostic tests delivered a few months
7 min read
Feb
16
Cowper’s Cut 362: The Penny officially drops in Amandaland

Cowper’s Cut 362: The Penny officially drops in Amandaland

To the considerable surprise of absolutely no readers of ‘Cowper’s Cut’, Dr Penny Dash was announced as the preferred
16 min read
Feb
09
Cowper’s Cut 361: Schrödinger’s 10 Year NHS Plan

Cowper’s Cut 361: Schrödinger’s 10 Year NHS Plan

It’s been quite the week for news about Health But Social Care Secretary Wes Streeting’s advisors. New Cavendish
7 min read
Feb
03
Cowper’s Cut 360: No surprises as the countdown to Amandexit becomes explicit

Cowper’s Cut 360: No surprises as the countdown to Amandexit becomes explicit

It will not surprise ‘Cut’ subscribers to see a fresh effort to recalibrate and reset the general fictional scale deployed
12 min read
Jan
26
Cowper’s Cut 359: A farewell to fiction

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
7 min read
Jan
19
Cowper’s Cut 358: Towards NHSCapital

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
11 min read
Jan
12
Cowper’s Cut 357: Plumbing the depths of winter

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
8 min read
Jan
05
Cowper’s Cut 356: Labour’s health policy relaunch and their Shatner’s Bassoon problem

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
10 min read
Dec
29
Cowper’s Cut 355: Tier and loathing in the English NHS

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
7 min read
Dec
24
An NHS Christmas Carol

An NHS Christmas Carol

By Craig Nikolic Our tale begins with a bitter and unhappy NHS senior manager, wondering about another year where nothing
8 min read