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The Tories may endanger your health
22 July 2010By the time Labour left office all patients were treated within 18 weeks. Plans for the health service will dismantle this. Rarely have proposed “reforms” alarmed so many professionals from every political corner.
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Leader: Yet more top-down prescriptions for the NHS
15 July 2010There is no evidence that GPs want this responsibility or have the skills to fulfil the task.
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Being Christopher Hitchens
12 July 2010The author and controversialist Christopher Hitchens
has cancelled all appointments and begun chemotherapy
after being diagnosed with cancer of the oesophagus. Shortly before this news, he talked to George Eaton about his life and his work.
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The Tory stealth attack on the NHS
02 July 2010If the Tories have their way, they will break apart the health system, just like our schools. This is a strange kind of “big society”.
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Shock and awe on the FM dial
01 July 2010Dead children, bad health and paedophiles: government adverts on local radio are painting a stunningly negative vision of Britain.
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America versus the hacker
07 June 2010Gary McKinnon, still suffering from Asperger’s, has one last chance to avoid extradition to the US to face charges of hacking into Nasa and Pentagon computers. Will the new government keep its word and help him avoid a savage punishment?
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