The Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute are currently running their annual Freedom Week conference at Cambridge … Continue reading “Moral panics and conspiracy theories around NHS “privatisation” (Part 3)”

The Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute are currently running their annual Freedom Week conference at Cambridge … Continue reading “Moral panics and conspiracy theories around NHS “privatisation” (Part 2)”

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”

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””

The citations below are (with one exception) all from major national newspapers or magazines (such as the Guardian/Observer, the Independent … Continue reading “The Great NHS Privatisation Quiz”

The NHS is being privatised. Everybody knows that. Or at least, every Twitter user does, because Twitter regularly talks itself … Continue reading “If there is a “secret plan” to privatise the NHS – it is not working terribly well”

On Sunday evening, Twitter exploded with rage. That, admittedly, doesn’t mean much. If you have ever been on Twitter, you … Continue reading “Calm down, Guardian: the NHS is (still) not being privatised”

At last Saturday’s “NHS in Crisis – Emergency Day of Protest” event in London, one of the speakers said: “The … Continue reading “The enduring fantasy of secret NHS privatisation”