Hunt’s agenda
The ideology of health care provision. Amid the junior doctors strike of 2016, the health secretary Jeremy Hunt was embroiled in a conflict with the BMA over doctors’ contracts designed to address...
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Sir Philip Green is pictured alongside Kendall Jenner, Cara Delevingne and Rita Ora at some fashion award bash. They are all very glamorous of course, Green aside who has his arms around the waists of...
View ArticleClimate change is an unsolvable wicked social problem?
Climate change is an unsolvable wicked social problem? The following outline of climate change as a wicked problem (Rittel and Weber 1973) is based on a reading of Reinar Grundmann’s (2016) ‘Focus...
View ArticleAre we selfish b*stards driven by our own self interest?
Self interest as a human nature driver for happiness? The drive of self-interest for material well-being has been seen to be a fundamental aspect of human nature, particularly since the Enlightenment...
View ArticleNeoliberalism: Rhetoric and Reality.
This paper was prepared as background to the 4th edition of ‘Communication and Interpersonal skills in nursing (Grant, A. and Goodman, B. forthcoming). In that book discourses of neoliberalism and...
View ArticleAlpha Males, Psychopaths and Greedy Bastards,
Alpha Males, Psychopaths, Greedy Bastards. In October 2016, during the United States presidential campaign, the Washington Post released a recording of Donald Trump made in 2005. Trump was heard to be...
View ArticleThe richest 1,000 people have more wealth than the poorest 40% of households...
The richest 1,000 people in the UK have more wealth than the poorest 40% of UK households. The 1,000 richest saw their wealth increase by a staggering £82.5 billion last year, the equivalent of £226...
View Article“Malefactors of Great Wealth” in the Oval office
I came across a quote in Oreskes and Conway’s (2014) ‘The Collapse of Western Civilization’ from a speech made by a national leader. At this point, I will not name or date the speechmaker. I thought it...
View ArticleMay’s ‘Free’ market blather is anti Corbyn rhetoric
Photo by Thomas Charters on Unsplash Theresa May is ‘frit’. Jeremy Corbyn argued (September 2017) that the neoliberal model of capitalism is broken. In response, May argues: “A free market economy,...
View ArticleThe neoliberal revolution and Health
Neoliberalism has various meanings, but many commonalities (Hall, 2011). Nurses in the UK’s NHS, alongside their colleagues elsewhere, may not be familiar with the term but they will be familiar with...
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