The news that NHS doctors are now, generally speaking, too scared of their managers to blow the whistle on dangerous care should come as no surprise to…
The news that NHS doctors are now, generally speaking, too scared of their managers to blow the whistle on dangerous care should come as no surprise to…
It has been a lovely Christmas holiday, with both my children in the house. One still lives here all the time and the one is…
What is wrong with the NHS hospital doctors and consultants? They must surely understand by now that their unprecedented joint strike action later this month…
I was just talking to a friend about her travails with car insurers Aviva. Apparently, they told her – when she finally got through to…
Big data. It’s suddenly being discussed everywhere. Including York at the Big Tent event there a couple of weeks ago – when the celebrated NHS blogger Roy Lilley chaired a panel…
The AI debate has been speeded up by the emergence of ChatGPT. And I’ve been a little muddled about it, until my friend and colleague…
It is now nearly three years since I published my book Tickbox, a book about a peculiar and widespread fantasy – shared by those who…
I have been trying to launch some kind of award system over the 18 months or so since the publication of my Tickbox book – really just…
In the heyday of Gordon Brown’s chancellorship, I went to a conference about the future of ‘extended schools’. The first speaker was an amazing headteacher,…
It is a little terrifying to think that thee general election of 1997, which brought with it such a sea change in our politics, was…
Why are we so sick these days? I mean, really? It wasn’t suppose to be like this – thanks to Beveridge, we had assumed that…
I normally agree with nearly everything my esteemed colleague Simon Mundy says – especially about the Home Office. The issue is why it is quite…