The NHS recently marked its 75th birthday with the kind of love-in most countries reserve for a passing monarch or truly iconic celebrity. So what is about our health service that has created such a fervent attachment amongst so many Brits, even when it underperforms compared to some of our continental peers?
To find out, we invited the journalist, author and broadcaster Isabel Hardman on to this week’s episode of the CapX Podcast to discuss her brilliant new history of the NHS, Fighting for Life.
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Can you imagine anything worse than a foreign company whose software saved lives, cut NHS waiting lists, put more police on the beat and reduced crime? It’s appalling, isn’t it? No British government or public sector body should have any dealings with such a company. Obviously. Much better to let patients die, cut police jobs […]
Even though the final local election results won’t be declared for a while yet, it’s clear there are glum faces in our two traditionally-biggest parties, an enormous trademark grin from Nigel Farage at Reform UK, and that Zack Polanski’s Greens are on the march. The populist parties aren’t gaining because they discovered a magical […]
To egalitarians, anything that rises above the average, be it wealth or exceptional beauty, is questionable. And, as in the economic and social spheres, this is another area in which they expect the state to intervene with regulations and bans. Heather Widdows, whose book ‘Perfect Me: Beauty as an Ethical Ideal’ was published in 2018, […]
