My last full length blog was a deep dive into the weird world of student loans financing, a mess so big that it will take years to unwind. Two people separately approached me and raised the issue of the Apprenticeship levy. You know who you are. For those who don’t follow education policy the levy … Read more
A few months ago I wrote about the collapse of Carillion, and drew comparisons between their collapse and the Government outsourcing industry in general. https://jon-chadwick.com/wp-admin/post.php?post=946&action=edit This week Interserve have announced they are negotiating a financial recovery package. This news led their shares to slump to 24p each, down from 660p 3 years ago. Interserve turn … Read more
A few weeks ago I wrote about the way that the 1930s has become a ubiquitous metaphor for people who want to make a point about modern politics. Not just any 1930s but the Hitler/Mussolini version. Simon Sharma, who knows better, referred to Trump as a “Yankee Duce” in this weekends FT. Tonight we’re going … Read more
Bloody immigrants eh? Coming over here, driving down wages, destroying terms and conditions of employment. Over the last few days British politicians have debated Brexit in the House of Commons, while their parties respective spin Doctors have filled the airwaves and provided content to partisan websites with endless drivel. The arguments about Brexit are tangled … Read more
For the first time in weeks I have no work this weekend, so I wanted to catch up with a couple of topics that I had written about previously, and which were finding their way back into the news. For those who follow such things my old pal the Jim Reaper has left Whitehall and … Read more
I found needles and ampules in my neighbourhood this week. I live very near a big hospital, which means that it was more likely to be medical rather than heroin, but I rang the Police nonetheless, being a concerned citizen. For those who don’t know Durham runs the most liberal drugs regime in … Read more
Apologies for the lack of blogging. I am on duty running the shop this weekend. If you would like to pop in and debate any of the issues in the blog, or buy Gin it would be great to see you. Especially if you want to buy Gin
Very very quietly a long era in NHS history might just be ending. I started writing a short history of NHS Management. My original jumping off point was this article from Warwick University Business School Warwick University offer a specialist healthcare management MBA which absolutely isn’t a conflict of interest with this research … Read more
The NHS is underfunded. This is such a widespread belief, that I don’t know anyone who would challenge that statement. Instinctively I believe it too, if only because over the last few years the Government has fibbed outrageously about how much it is putting into the NHS which they wouldn’t need to do if funding … Read more
Apologies that this blog is a week later than I intended. This is a bit ironic, as this blog is about waiting lists, specifically housing waiting lists, and the delay in publishing the blog is because of how long I had to wait to find out how long people have to wait for Social … Read more