Nursing
Carry on, matron
The crisis in nursing can be reversed by a return to Florence Nightingale’s vision of vocation and a rebuilt hierarchy on the wards
Save nursing from the universities
There is no need for nursing to be a graduate only occupation
How widespread is NHS qualifications fraud?
A viral Twitter post raises uncomfortable questions about the level of training in British institutions
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The establishment is still living in an immigration fantasy land
It is influential left-wingers, not the broader public, who have deluded themselves on mass migration
American strategy in Iran is wiser than it seems
President Trump’s intervention will leave the world safer than it was
Saint Nicola
Nicola Sturgeon wants sympathy for her husband’s crimes—but after years spent avoiding awkward questions, her latest reinvention may be the hardest sell yet.
On Britain as a capitalist command economy
It is neither neoliberal nor socialist but a secret third thing
Rewatching the English
English identity has become too surreal and discomfiting to define
Morals before wealth
250 years after Adam Smith published The Wealth of Nations, an earlier work remains the key to understanding it.
How to get Britain building
A new policy paper proves that the government can beat bureaucratic sclerosis if it wants to
Starmer’s union trap
Labour has handed power back to the unions, and is now discovering the cost of obedience
Our new five-party system
First-past-the-post no longer means
an electoral carve-up between the
Tories and Labour, allowing “fringe”
parties real political influence
How procedure is enabling petty criminals
We should support workers who confront criminals
Scotland should reject assisted suicide
It is dangerous, and arrogant, and premised on irrational fears
Restoration romps
Purcell, The Musical, OSO Arts Centre, Barnes
Light my fire
A perfect spy requires a spark for his cigarette
Damaged brains and troubled souls
Dana White, of all people, should not be so dismissive of the salience of mental suffering
Kemi at the crossroads
Kemi Badenoch cannot tell everybody what they want to hear
When all you have is a Hermer
Why Lord Hermer is a strange fit as Attorney General