NHS

Why must B&B guests give us advice?

21 June 2025 9:00 am

‘You could mow all this lawn here and it would look a treat,’ said the arborist, returning from a stroll…

Must my fish and chips come with a side of geopolitics?

31 May 2025 9:00 am

‘Our boys went to Lebanon and trained Hezbollah!’ shouted the drunk Irish lad in the fish and chip shop as…

I’ve reached zero tolerance on zero tolerance

24 May 2025 9:00 am

I know an astonishing 89-year-old who climbs mountains, uses a chainsaw and has the muscular, vice-like grip of a gym-built…

It’s time to get rid of the Rich List

24 May 2025 9:00 am

Here’s a takeover tale that captures the zeitgeist. It involves two FTSE 250 companies and some deep-pocketed US investors –…

Speed traps are designed to make you fail

24 May 2025 9:00 am

The builder boyfriend returned from a trip to London to inform me he was being done for speeding at 32mph,…

The £486 driving licence con

17 May 2025 9:00 am

By changing the address on my driving licence, I was somehow signed up to something that began charging my credit…

The case for replacing nurses with robots

26 April 2025 9:00 am

Tending is a work of activism on behalf of the NHS. The script brings together the testimony of 70 nurses…

Aren’t women wonderful?

19 April 2025 9:00 am

The mole specialist was wearing a pink Chanel-looking suit and pink diamanté shoes. By mole specialist, I don’t mean someone…

‘We’re going to a more radical place’: Wes Streeting on his plans for the NHS

19 April 2025 9:00 am

A copy of a leading article from The Spectator is stuck to the wall of Wes Streeting’s office in the…

The assisted suicide bill should not survive

19 April 2025 9:00 am

Until about six months ago, it would have been hard to find a more inoffensive politician than the Labour backbencher…

The ‘physician associate’ will see you now…

15 March 2025 9:00 am

There is a war being waged in NHS hospitals. On one side are overstretched junior doctors in understaffed wards. On…

Why is the NHS pushing pregnant women towards sterilisation?

8 March 2025 9:00 am

It was a routine antenatal appointment. I’d done it twice before and knew the format. The obstetrician runs through the…

Portrait of the week: Andrew Gwynne sacked, Trump saves Prince Harry and a £30m refund over moths

15 February 2025 9:00 am

Home Andrew Gwynne was sacked as a health minister and suspended from the Labour party for making jokes about a…

Does Keir Starmer know what a ‘drag anchor’ does?

18 January 2025 9:00 am

The language of sailing ships is as treacherous as a lee shore. Words seldom mean what they suggest or are…

Letters: In private schools, struggling children find the help they need

11 January 2025 9:00 am

Growing problem Sir: The first leading article of the year (‘Growing apart’, 4 January) points to the gap in economic…

The appalling truth about London’s ambulance service

16 November 2024 9:00 am

‘An old lady’s fallen down – quick! She’s bleeding. Come help.’ An elderly woman lay on the entrance steps of…

Letters: How to save the NHS

2 November 2024 9:00 am

The survey says Sir: David Butterfield’s 21 years of experience of higher education (‘Decline and fall’, 26 October) chimes with…

Can Labour save its Budget?

1 November 2024 8:49 pm

After the Office for Budget Responsibility’s assessment of the Budget was published on Wednesday, the cost of government borrowing started…

My boyfriend, the hedgehog hero

26 October 2024 9:00 am

‘I’m making a hedgehog rescue ladder,’ said the builder boyfriend, who was on his knees in the farmyard, drilling a…

Is Wes Streeting the Hamlet of the health service?

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Is Wes Streeting the Hamlet of the Health Service? Is this undoubtedly talented and thoughtful young Labour prince fatally irresolute…

Portrait of the week: Budget leaks, prisoners released and Israel kills Hamas leader

26 October 2024 9:00 am

Home Rachel Reeves, the Chancellor of the Exchequer, was expected to freeze tax thresholds in the Budget on 30 October,…

Wahed’s alarming Tube adverts

26 October 2024 9:00 am

As the interminable Budget wait goes on, so does the trawl through the Chancellor’s bin bags. I refer to the…

Does Wes Streeting’s ten-year NHS plan amount to anything?

20 October 2024 10:12 pm

The Health Secretary is making a big fanfare about a cash boost in the Budget and a new plan to…

Letters: Are there still any reasons to be cheerful?

5 October 2024 9:00 am

Doctor’s note Sir: Your leading article ‘Labour vs labour’ (21 September) follows a recent theme that I have noticed in…

My B&B’s first celebrity guest

28 September 2024 9:00 am

The TV talent show star was due to arrive at 5 p.m., and would be checking into our house long…