To the horror of health campaigners in Stafford – and even her former allies – Channel 4 has announced plans to produce a drama about ‘Cure the NHS’ founder Julie […]
ITV News this evening once again mentioned the supposed ‘excess’ toll of 400-1200 ‘unnecessary’ deaths that are supposed to have occurred at Stafford NHS hospital. It is an early example […]
The full scale – and horror – of the NHS cuts dressed up as the Tories’ ‘STP’ (Sustainability and Transformation Plan) programme has been kept fairly quiet by the government […]
News has just broken that Theresa May has screeched into an embarrassing, hand-brake U-turn over her ‘dementia tax’ plans to penalise older people who need care by making them pay […]
In Prime Minister’s Questions today, Theresa May – as is her wont when she’s on the hook and can’t think of a better ‘out’ – went on the cheap attack […]
In last night’s political ‘debate’ on ITV, David Cameron once again slandered Stafford hospital and its staff in his desperate attempt to slur the NHS and Labour’s record on it, […]
If you don’t live in Stafford or the surrounding area, you won’t have heard that the people of Stafford have gone to extraordinary lengths to try to save their hospital. […]
I’ve written at length on this blog about the concerted and sustained hatchet-job that has been done on Stafford hospital (just search ‘Stafford’ and/or ‘Mid Staffs’ and/or ‘HSMR’) as part […]
On 16 March this year, around 112,000 people marched in Melbourne, Australia, against the policies of its government that are clearly against any principles of decency, fairness, social justice or […]
In spite of my enforced inactivity for the last 2 or 3 months, 2013 was quite a year for the SKWAWKBOX, with some 450,000 reads. I’m truly grateful to you […]