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Values and boundaries in the NHS
9 May 2013
Two weeks ago, the Royal College of Nursing at its annual conference raised concerns over low staffing levels and believed that some of the important recommendations from the Francis report such as a registration system for healthcare assistants were being...
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UKIP "breakthrough" in perspective
9 May 2013
On the day after the 2 May 2013 council elections the BBC posted a lead story on their news website about the previous day’s vote, containing the line: “UKIP is the big story of the night, gaining 139 councillors and...
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Green grassroots
8 May 2013
The successes of Nigel Farage and UKIP in the recent local elections have already provoked much analysis. In particular, the three main parties are now engaging in an intensive period of soul searching as they think hard about how best...
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A new care covenant
7 May 2013
“When all this is gone, what's left is what matters most: the people you love - your family, your friends.” The Guardian's Mike White tells me these were Jim Callaghan’s words, quoted by a member of his family at the...
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A shrinking state is a rightwing fantasy
30 April 2013
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...
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Justice for hedgehogs
24 April 2013
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...
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