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In the Guardian, John Crace, marina Hyde, Zoe Williams et al are brilliantly savage on a daily basis. But today's Marina Hyde's opening struck me as particularly good: Perhaps on Sunday you watched the entire nation being lectured on what constitutes fatherly responsibility by Boris Johnson, a man w...

Other forthright bishops are available - including the one covering this county. And I seem to remember the Bishop of Willesden's boss not being too happy about Welby's pronouncement. Once you've named Alan Wilson and Pete Broadbent, and possibly Nick Baines, it gets rather hard to think of many mo...

Wikipedia does suggest that he's a Labour party member. Which is curious as his theological background (protegé of George Carey, low church) is more often associated with the individualism of the Tories. I don't share Pete B's theology by a long shot, but he is a breath of fresh air in the current ...

But the journalists didn't press him as hard as they should. When he failed to answer the Barnard Castle question, the next journalist should have said "Prime Minister, I am am forgoing my planned question to repeat the question my colleague put but you failed to answer: did Cumnings visit Barnard C...

Ok, watched Boris dribble on, so basically nothing has changed. I'm with those who say that, whether or not much has changed substantively, by replacing (relative) clarity with complete confusion and ambiguity, Johnson has driven a coach and horses through the collective public buy-in necessary to ...

https://www.bundespraesident.de/SharedDocs/Reden/EN/Frank-Walter-Steinmeier/Reden/2020/05/200508-75th-anniversary-World-War-II.html Reading this, and as seems to happen quite often these days, I feel ashamed to be British. "In 1945 we were liberated. Today, we must liberate ourselves. From the tempt...

Winning power. It's pretty flexible as to the way in which it goes about it, and reinvents itself all the time. It usually stands for a mixed economy with overt support for private enterprise, as long as that support doesn't get too much in the way of winning votes. It has a broadly market-led view...

Do you have a link about that? My 5-years retired nephrologist friend felt unduly pressured to take it up, even while she was self quarantining to to recent travel. She was very reluctant, because she was afraid, but also because she wondered what use she would be. She couldn't remember the drug pr...

Anyone who asserts that the Conservatives want to fundamentally change the basis of the NHS or restrict what it does really ought to provide some evidence rather than vague assertions. Vague assertions that don't bear any relation to reality are what is wrong with politics, and get found out eventu...

In Johnson's speech just after he left hospital, where he thanked the nurses, he said it "could have gone either way". Now, in his interview with the Sun (of which I have merely read the Guardian account, I hasten to reassure you) he says it was 50:50 whether they "put a tube down my windpipe". He w...

... There's a big difference between alignment of objectives and what you talk about in your last paragraph, which is hands-on experience at a very technical level. .... It's not so much the hands-on experience, I don't think, as breathing the same air. That isn't current orthodoxy, actually. A gre...

I don't have a direct hookup into what passes for the brain of a Tory MP, but I suspect that they want to provide everything the NHS currently provides equally to all. What do you think they want to stop providing on the NHS? I think it is the concept of a universal service, equally available to al...

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I'm not entirely sure what that non sequitur has to do with anything.

It made perfect sense to me- I did not see it as a non sequitur.

Not true. The NHS of Tory MPs' dreams - or at least of their dreams a few months ago - would be free at point of delivery and equally available to all Britons. It would also be cheap for the taxpayer, probably pretty basic, and delivered by a mix of public, for-profit and not-for-profit organisatio...