Moral panics about imaginary secret plans to privatise the National Health Service are a time-honoured British tradition – so much … Continue reading “NHS “privatisation” – the failed conspiracy theory that never dies”

A survey of over 2000 family doctors working in England has indicated a sharp fall in working hours post-pandemic, with … Continue reading “Can’t get a GP appointment? Blame medical socialism”

A few weeks ago, I took part in a debate at King’s College London, on the crowd-pleasing question “Should the … Continue reading “What I learned from debating the NHS”

A year ago, the IEA published my paper Viral Myths – Why we risk learning the wrong lessons from the … Continue reading “Britain’s pandemic response revisited: has “Plague Island” redeemed itself?”

Christopher Snowdon, IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics, has commented for The Telegraph on reports that NHS Senior Managers’ pay has … Continue reading “Increased NHS salaries exhibits “entitlement and extravagance”, says IEA researcher”

Christopher Snowdon, IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics, has written for the New Statesman on the the government’s announcement that it … Continue reading “Abandoning ‘free’ Covid tests is the right call”

Christopher Snowdon, IEA Head of Lifestyle Economics, has commented for The Telegraph on the NHS backlog, which could see as … Continue reading “Use private healthcare to reduce the NHS backlog”

On 8 February 2022, the King’s College London Conservative Association and the King’s College London Labour Society co-hosted a debate … Continue reading “Motion: Should the NHS be privatised?”

I sometimes wonder whether some of the Guardian’s regular contributors secretly despise their readers, given how easily they believe obvious … Continue reading “Beware the false prophets of NHS “privatisation””