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The case for ditching the NHS
The case for ditching the NHS
October 23, 2015
If the taxpayer-funded model is not politically workable, Britain should adopt a social insurance systemTHE NHS is in a mess. Many studies suggest that it is worse than its...
The case for ditching the NHS
English-only votes set Britain on the path to federalisation—or break-up
October 22, 2015
THE House of Commons has just voted in favour (by 312 MPs to 270) of English votes for English laws (EVEL). Superficially a piece of legislative housekeeping—it became law...
The case for ditching the NHS
The Scottish National Party’s triumphant hesitancy
October 17, 2015
I MISSED Nicola Sturgeon’s final speech to the Scottish National Party (SNP) conference in Aberdeen today (I was mingling with the junior doctors at their protest in London; of...
The case for ditching the NHS
What Geoffrey Howe’s career revealed about power—and Thatcherism
October 11, 2015
NOTHING in Geoffrey Howe’s ministerial career became him like leaving it. Browbeaten and humiliated one too many times by Margaret Thatcher, he stepped down as deputy prime minister and—as...
The case for ditching the NHS
George Osborne’s plan to let boomtowns boom and failing towns fail
October 5, 2015
The chancellor's conference speech contained a theory about how Britain is changing—and what the state should do about itGEORGE OSBORNE has just completed his speech to the Conservative Party...