The staff at the Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) are the best public finance number-crunchers in the UK. But last … Continue reading “Are there really no alternatives to tax increases (as the IFS claims)?”

Last week, in response to something I tweeted about the NHS winter crisis, someone asked me whether such winter crises … Continue reading “Did underfunding cause the winter crisis on the NHS?”

The NHS funding crisis The NHS is ‘at breaking point’, ‘starved of resources’, ‘on the verge of collapse’, overstretched, underfunded, … Continue reading “Rebuttal: ‘The NHS is wonderful, just underfunded’”

According to the Commonwealth Fund, the NHS is the best healthcare system in the world. But according to the OECD, … Continue reading “Interview: Kristian Niemietz discusses the NHS with Ryan Bourne (video)”