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A Liberal Approach to Healthcare in the 21st Century: Prevention Is Better Than Cure
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The debate around healthcare in the UK is too often polarised between those who advocate for a US style system (private healthcare that is determined by the ability to pay, whether through insurance, income or state support) versus the UK model (the publicly funded NHS, free at the point of use). Some argue for a hybrid of both, otherwise known as the ‘social-insurance model’ or the ‘Bismarck model’ (a health care system financed through compulsory, income-related contributions paid by employers and employees). However, regardless of the delivery system, the debate often misses a crucial aspect of healthcare which is rarely…
Politicians and the Media Need to End Their Obsession With Cutting Welfare
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There is a familiar rhythm to British political life. An election looms, a budget falls short, and within days the headlines arrive like clockwork. Benefit claimants. Welfare bills. The “unsustainable” cost of supporting the poorest people in one of the world’s largest economies. Ministers queue up to talk tough. Editors reach for the same dog-eared playbook. And the cycle continues, largely unchallenged, while the real economic failures that underpin Britain’s stagnation go quietly unexamined. It is time to name this for what it is. The political and media obsession with welfare cuts is not serious economic policy. It is a…
The Compassion Trap: Herbie’s Law and the Patients No‑One Cares About
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A proposed law to end animal testing in UK medical research by 2035 is being sold as an act of compassion. But the real human cost of getting this wrong has been almost entirely absent from the debate — and it will fall hardest on those who can least afford it. Herbie is a rabbit. He was bred for a laboratory, tattooed on his ear, and (as the story goes) rescued before his fate could be sealed. He has since become the face of one of the most emotionally compelling campaigns in recent British politics: a push to ban all…
