NHS
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Last chance to save the NHS?
The battle to save the NHS is now entering its final hours. David Cameron and Andrew Lansley seem determined to drag Britain’s most famous institution to its grave, but if we now stand together we can get the House of Lords to stop this bill in its tracks. Continue reading
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Lansley’s NHS Demolition Bill – political strikes are both necessary and possible to defeat it!
The Tories are in deep trouble over Lansley’s health ‘reforms’. Their Lib Dem coalition partners are deeply split over it, in the Lords Shirley Williams appears to be among those fighting hardest to defeat it. The Labour Party meanwhile, though it has capitulated on the public sector pay freeze and on the wider issue of… Continue reading
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Most Popular Books at Housmans in 2011
17 November 2011 — Housmans The following have been the bestselling titles at Housmans this year. Sales aren’t everything though, so look out for a list of Housmans staff’s favourite books from 2011, coming very soon. All the following books are available to buy online or in-store. For online purchases just click on the link Continue reading
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Britain: The Health and Social Care Bill and the Negation of Democracy By Colin Leys
In voting, in the British House of Commons, for the third reading of Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill last week MPs voted to replace the National Health Service (NHS) as a public service with a system of competing businesses – foundation trusts, social enterprises and for-profit corporations. Continue reading
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The NHS Debate by Dan Hind
The Week in Westminster this morning ran a feature on the Coalition’s plans for the National Health Service. The presenter Peter Riddell interviewed the Lords Fowler and Warner, Conservative and Labour respectively. These ‘veteran peers’ shared a good deal of ground in their discussion with Peter Riddell. Indeed an incautious listener might have come away… Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter (Second series) No.1
During all the controversy about government NHS reforms (which in general NO2ID can have no view on), one question has gone almost unnoticed. What is happening to personal medical information? Continue reading
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‘What Matters Is What Works’: The State and the National Health Service in Scotland and Wales By Colin Leys
After forty years of ideological onslaught the very idea of ‘the state’ is close to joining others, such as ‘collective’ (not to mention ‘socialist,’ and even ‘left’), in the depository of Unclean Concepts. ‘State bad, private good’ may be a crude and simplistic slogan, but it is the very real starting-point of many politicians and… Continue reading
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Election 2011 By Dan Hind
In May of this year the Coalition will hold a referendum to decide on a new voting system. The British have never been much concerned about voting reform, for good and bad reasons. There are good reasons not to care much about what is currently on offer. Continue reading
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More back-door privatization of the National Health Service proposed
NHS Direct, perhaps the only effective addition to the Health Service the Labour government contributed, is to be axed under new proposals being put forward by the Tory/Lib-Dem government in spite of all the pre-election promises to ‘ring-fence’ the NHS. Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 156 – 26th August 2010: Party Games
26 August, 2010 — NO2ID + PARTY GAMES + As we move into party conference season, it is time for NO2ID to see who in politics has really grasped our message – and to look forward. Have the Coalition’s fine words about rolling back the database state been fulfilled as action? Will the new Labour Continue reading
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NO2ID Supporters’ Newsletter No. 145 – 25th March 2010: Mandating ID
*Contacting us:* Call or email the office – 020-7793-4005 or (office@no2id.net). + MANDATING ID + While the Minister for Identity tries conjuring up possible uses for the ID card – more fantasy than reality, but telling nonetheless [1] – the Home Office has continued to use every trick in the book to manufacture ‘demand’. Its Continue reading
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The BNP and bridging the gulf of disbelief By William Bowles
18 November, 2009 By now it must surely be obvious to everyone that a vast gulf exists between the rulers and the ruled, so much so that the ruled have all but given up listening. The ruling elite are now so desperate that hardly a day goes by without some political dinosaur telling us that Continue reading
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An old year’s tale By William Bowles
29 December 2005 It’s true: the 20th century is yesterday’s story and unfortunately, most of us are still living in it. Especially, the left. As to the ruling elite, they don’t care what century it is, as long as they rule in it. But it is the problem for most of us on the left, Continue reading
The New Dark Age 