Published by The i paper (2nd May, 2022) More than three decades ago I joined The Sunday Times in the wake of the Wapping dispute, which broke the stranglehold of […]
Health / Policy / Social care
Care does not need private equity
Published by The i paper (4th January, 2021) We can, thankfully, talk about 2020 in the past tense. It was a year of death and despair, of tragedy […]
Health / Policy
NHS for sale? Too late for many mental health services
Published by The i paper (2nd December, 2019) For much of the time it has seemed only two issues are at stake in this depressing election campaign. The […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Worried about US healthcare giants? They’re already here
Published by The Times (4th June, 2019) The response could not have been clearer when Woody Johnson, US ambassador to Britain, suggested that American firms would want access […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Britain’s cruel care system shames us all
Published by The Times (19th April, 2019) The details are shocking. A troubled girl just 14 years old, sent for the first time into a place of supposed […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
I have seen so many horrors – but this is barbarism
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd December, 2018) I have interviewed abused women, bereaved parents, torture victims and girls in the captivity of jihadis. I have seen […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Profiteers of misery
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS after […]