The Employment Rights Act will fuel striking doctors
TThe junior doctors were due to strike again, and everyone was sick of the whole business. At the last minute,…
Why can’t Elon Musk’s critics just be pleased for him?
The quiet kid from my friend’s school has become a trillionaire, and many people are unhappy that this should be…
Marilyn Monroe was just like the rest of us
Marilyn Monroe was born a hundred years ago today. She was famous enough in her lifetime to be one of…
We cannot stop the small boats
This April, we agreed another deal with France to stop migrants coming across the Channel. The Home Office has explained…
Gene-editing drugs are opening a new frontier in medicine
Older readers with bulging medicine cabinets, or parents eyeing their children’s distant futures, are not encouraged to read the New…
Will Labour’s sick note crackdown work?
‘Can I have one last present?’ my daughter asked earlier this week, having turned 15 and covered the kitchen floor…
Streeting’s NHS record is nothing to boast about
“Leaders take responsibility,” Wes Streeting wrote, in what has already been called his Wesignation letter. The charge against Keir Starmer…
Mary Seacole is celebrated for all the wrong reasons
Florence Nightingale, born in Florence on this day in 1820, made her world measurably better. She counted the dead until…
Why Scottish whiskey is worth the effort
‘The King and Queen got me to do something that nobody else was able to do, without hardly even asking!’…
Politics is making us more unhealthy
Wes Streeting has said women have been treated like ‘second-class citizens whose voices don’t matter’. ‘The blunt reality is the…
Should doctors be banned from striking?
Kemi Badenoch has said she will ban doctors from striking. Yesterday, asked if he would do the same, Health Secretary…
Why junior doctors are back on strike
In the emergency department, and on my wards, the strikes sit lightly. My specialty of internal medicine never closes; Easter…
What the death of my beloved son taught me about Easter
The hawthorn hedges are white with blossom; the countryside looks set for a wedding. Even in the small garden of…
Is it time to scrap the NHS?
Nigel Lawson said the NHS was the closest we had to a religion. What’s needed today is someone willing to…
The absurdity at the heart of the junior doctors’ strikes
Immediately after the Easter weekend, junior doctors are planning a six-day strike. Unless they call it off, Starmer has said…
NHS Online won’t cure Britain’s creaking healthcare system
What is it that doctors actually do? The answer is not obvious, and I say that as a physician who…
Should teenagers be vaccinated against meningitis B?
Two people have died of meningitis in Kent: an eighteen year old year 13 student named as Juliette, and an…
The BBC cannot tax Netflix viewers
The BBC has described itself as being set to enter ‘managed decline’. The government is currently reviewing the broadcaster’s charter,…
Can Wes Streeting get the sick back to work?
Health Secretary Wes Streeting has tried using the NHS for social engineering before. Previously, he’s suggested that weight-loss jabs could…
Is it a surprise middle-class women are using Ozempic most?
New research reveals a startling truth about the people paying thousands for weight-loss drugs: they’re mostly middle-aged, wealthy women. In…
How can measles have broken out in London?
Last month the World Health Organisation removed Britain from its list of countries where measles had been effectively eliminated. The…
Does coffee really lower the risk of dementia?
People who drink coffee and tea are less likely to suffer dementia, according to a large study published this week.…
The new junior doctors’ strikes aren’t about pay
Junior doctors have voted to extend their strikes – by a whisker. Turnout for yesterday’s vote collapsed to less than…
Don’t bet on Elon Musk’s failure
Tesla’s last quarterly report revealed that deliveries had declined for the second year running and, for the first time, annual…
What Lego taught me about my own mediocrity
Lego – I can’t bring myself to capitalise it more than once – was born today in 1958, when it…
