Labour is slowly moving from mere response mode to feeling out more concrete terrain on what its next state may look like. Some have argued they have taken too long to make this transition but, the publicity (and departmental research...
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Andy Burnham’s plan to integrate health and social care is the boldest idea to emerge from Labour’s policy review so far. If he can convince his shadow cabinet colleagues to back it, can he convince the country in 2015? “The...
The late Ronald Dworkin (1931-2013) was an intellectual light to the American liberal left, whose ability to communicate complex ideas to the public led the great Harvard political philosopher John Rawls to liken him to a modern day John Stuart...
Yesterday on LabourList Adam Lent argued that the Labour party has been overrun by ‘vulgar Fabianism’. In saying this Lent considerably overstates the intellectual weight of Fabianism in contemporary Labour debates (perhaps I should be claiming otherwise) and underplays the...
If a better system is thine, impart it; if not, make use of mine’ Horace
This week the College of Emergency Medicine highlighted the challenges facing emergency departments across the country with unsustainable workloads and staffing shortages. Whilst the design, funding...
“A politician is like the person who would build an ambulance at the bottom of the cliff, instead of constructing a good fence at the top.”
Never did the phrase seem so apt as last week when NHS leaders warned that...