Save the NHS | Andy Worthington (original) (raw)
COVID-19: Institutional Inertia, the Need for Vision, and the Collapse of the US and the UK
11.8.20
Drawing on an excellent article about COVID-19 and American exceptionalism by the anthropologist Wade Davis for Rolling Stone, I look at the crisis of leadership in the US when it comes to dealing with the unprecedented challenges for our economic future caused by the COVID-19 pandemic, and compare how similar failures of leadership also plague the UK.
- Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Coronavirus, Donald Trump, Environmental crisis, Save the NHS, UK housing crisis, UK politics
The Coronavirus Lockdown, Hidden Suffering, and Delusions of a Rosy Future
15.4.20
In my latest article looking at the drastically changed coronavirus world, I flag up the dangers of the massive shift from employment to unemployment, call for rents to be written off for the duration of the crisis, and refer to a study in the journal Science to demonstrate that we need to be thinking about living with the coronavirus for years, and not just a few more months of lockdown.
Health Not Wealth: The World-Changing Lessons of the Coronavirus
9.4.20
100 days since the existence of the coronavirus was first announced to the world, I look at some of the many ways in which it has changed life forever – primarily by establishing that our societies’ obsession with corporate profits above all else has now been revealed as empty and worthless, when what truly matters is our health, and those who look after us. I also look at some of the many ways in which our economies, and our economic priorities, will need to change.
My Gratitude to the NHS, Seven Years After I Developed A Rare Blood Disease and Nearly Lost Two Toes
19.3.18
Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist, commentator and activist. Seven years ago yesterday, I was admitted to hospital after suffering for two months with severe pain in two toes on my right foot. As a human rights campaigner, it was, I thought, somewhat ironic that I was in such pain that […]
- Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Brexit disaster, Save the NHS, UK politics
My Heartfelt Defence of the Wonderful NHS, Exactly Six Years After My Major Illness
18.3.17
Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist and commentator. Exactly six years ago, my life changed drastically when I was hospitalised, for 12 days, as doctors with the NHS tried — and eventually succeeded — in working out how to save a number of my toes, which, over the preceding months, had […]
“Wake Up People! Save Our NHS!” Photos from the National March and Rally in London, March 4, 2017
4.3.17
See my photos on Flickr here! Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist and commentator. On Saturday March 4, 2017, tens of thousands of campaigners marched through central London to defend the NHS from the Tory government, which has been responsible for alarming cuts to NHS funding since first getting back into […]
- Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Brexit disaster, Save the NHS, UK politics
Save the NHS From Its Would-Be Killers, Theresa May and Jeremy Hunt: Please Join the National Protest in London This Saturday, March 4, 2017
28.2.17
Please support my work as a reader-funded investigative journalist and commentator. Please join the march for the NHS in London this Saturday! Four years ago, I was involved in a struggle to save Lewisham Hospital, my local hospital in south east London, from destruction by senior NHS managers working closely with the government of […]
- Battle for Britain: Fighting the Tory Government's Vile Ideology, Brexit disaster, Save the NHS, UK politics
Save the NHS: Tories’ Own Auditor Finds “Financial Problems are Endemic and This is Not Sustainable” for NHS’s Survival
22.11.16
Please support my work as a freelance investigative journalist and commentator. The NHS faces an unprecedented crisis, and it’s all the Tories’ fault (with the help of some senior NHS officials). A new report by the National Audit Office, the government’s official auditor, has found that “[t]wo-thirds of health trusts in England are now […]
Save the NHS from the Tory Butchers: How Doctors Saved Me and My Family, and How People Forget That Insurers Don’t Cover Pre-Existing Conditions
18.3.16
Please support my work! Exactly five years ago, I was hospitalised — with what turned out to be a blood disease that, manifesting itself via a blood clot, had cut off the blood supply to two of my toes to such an extent that they had turned black, and it was debatable whether they could […]
Save the NHS: Please Sign Petition and Ask Your MP to Attend 2nd Reading of the NHS Reinstatement Bill This Friday, Mar. 11
8.3.16
There are so many horrible aspects to life in the UK under the Tories that it’s sometimes difficult to keep track of them all, unless you’re unfortunate enough to be affected by all of them — the unfettered housing bubble, for example, and the similarly unregulated private rental market, coupled with a sustained assault on […]