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Exclusive: first of two-part interview with Welsh Labour leadership hopeful Mark Drakeford

26/10/2018by SKWAWKBOX 7 Comments

The contest for the leadership of the Welsh Labour Party – and the position of First Minister of the Welsh Assembly – is well and truly underway, with many union […]

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Video: BBCQT “nurse earning £100/month LESS than 17yo apprentice son” #NHSCrisis

19/01/2018by SKWAWKBOX 8 Comments

Last night’s BBC Question Time was filmed in Tory-heartland Hereford. Many consider the typical ‘BBCQT’ audience to be Tory councillors and angry old right-wing men and this audience was angry. But […]

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Labour Right’s #NHSmarch shame

05/03/2017by SKWAWKBOX 18 Comments

Yesterday was a thrilling and inspiring day, as 250,000 people marched in London against the Tories’ war of attrition on the NHS. Labour MP Aneurin Bevan, the ‘father’ of the […]

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An evening with Andy Burnham – and hope for the NHS

22/02/2013by SKWAWKBOX 22 Comments

You don’t need to read very far through this blog to know that I’m passionate about the NHS. I believe it’s Britain’s, and Labour’s, greatest achievement and the country’s greatest […]

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Retrospective legislation could take back the NHS fully?

15/10/2012by SKWAWKBOX 8 Comments

As has been covered many times on this blog and by others, the government is going as fast as it dares, and in as subtle a way as it can, […]

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Hunt planning massive new wave of NHS attacks, Telegraph colludes

12/10/2012by SKWAWKBOX 16 Comments

Some time back, I predicted a fresh wave of assaults on the NHS based on reports I was seeing in the media and on statements coming from the mouth of the then-Health […]

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This means war? Bevan’s legacy: risk, reward, retaliation & resolution

01/10/2012by SKWAWKBOX 3 Comments

I spent the train journey down to London this morning reading the first chapters of Aneurin Bevan’s ‘In Place of Fear’, a master-work that was republished for the 60th anniversary of […]

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Rees-Mogg’s BBC QT 38%/1%/26% – what he WASN’T telling you

28/09/2012by SKWAWKBOX 6 Comments

The record rains earlier this week led to a curious situation where a block of flats was evacuated because of a flood. You might think that a flood wouldn’t present […]

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The lie of ‘unaffordability’: the foundations of the welfare state and the REAL ‘structural’ problems

08/07/2012by SKWAWKBOX 47 Comments

On Newsnight last Wednesday, a very sharp old lady nailed Conservative minister David Willetts during a discussion on pension reforms by challenging the idea that we can’t afford to maintain […]

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