Playing the system
A new report from Civitas describes how the National Health Service is failing the poor at the expense of middle class patients. This is not just because of variable quality of NHS services in different parts of the country (although this is a factor). The Guardian reports:
In spite of unprecedented sums spent on [...]
An ethical foreign policy
David Aaronovitch in the Times, after interviewing Tony Blair for the new BBC TV series The Blair Years, reveals what ought to be obvious to any informed observer – but which is constantly overlooked: Tony Blair supported the invasion of Iraq not because he had been somehow hypnotised by President Bush, but simply because he [...]