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Health news, analysis and opinion from the @spectator.
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🗞 After Putin: how nervous should we be, asks Mark Galeotti ✍️ In the mag: • Katy Balls: can Sunak revive the Tories with a reshuffle? • Nicholas Farrell: the march of Europe’s right-wing women • Ben Lazarus: inside the real phone-hacking scandal https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Home truths: the crushing reality of the mortgage crisis ✍️ In the mag: • Katy Balls on Labour’s plan to take Scotland • Imran Khan on the conspiracy against him • Matt Ridley on Covid’s first victims https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Get Rishi! Katy Balls on Boris’s plot against Rishi ✍️ In the mag: • Owen Matthews: Putin is losing control • Sharron Davies: women’s sport is not a colony for mediocre men • Damian Thompson: the search for the next pope is turning ugly https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Harry’s crusade: Freddy Gray on the Prince vs the press ✍️ In mag: • Katy Balls on why Rishi Sunak fears the Covid inquiry • Alex Lucie-Smith on how women became essential to the mafia’s survival • Rod Liddle on the delusion of JK Rowling https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Red Rishi: Kate Andrews and Matthew Parris on a political makeover ✍️ In the mag: • Jean Twenge on why teenagers are so unhappy • Douglas Murray on the Phillip Schofield affair • James Heale on who really did for Liz Truss https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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'It’s a tough old time for NHS workers — and Steve Barclay really does have his work cut out for him if he truly wants to keep the health service afloat.' ✍️ Lucy Dunn
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🗞 Coronation special ✍️ In mag: • Gyles Brandreth: the comedy of the Queen's coronation • David Starkey: ‘I have uncancelled myself’ • Rod Liddle: what King Charles gets wrong • Geoffrey Hinton: we need to wake up to the dangers of AI https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 The Starmtroopers: Katy Balls on Labour’s new recruits ✍️ In mag: • Freddy Gray asks if Trump is America's Le Pen • Sarah Vine on why we shouldn’t cancel Diane Abbott • Damian Thompson on how American Satanism is on the rise https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Womb service: the politics of surrogacy ✍️ In the mag: • Katy Balls and Rod Liddle on CSI: SNP • Suella Braverman on racism • Simon Stevens on how to stop the doctors’ strikes https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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.@BMA_JuniorDocs have written to @SteveBarclay asking to meet immediately to negotiate ‘in good faith’. With more nursing strikes on the horizon and while the NHS faces its biggest workforce crisis yet, the government needs to engage. Full article via @spectator
'Talks in March broke down when BMA representatives and health secretary Steve Barclay were unable to find common ground. Junior doctors say they will negotiate — but the government remains stubborn.' ✍️ Lucy Dunn
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🚨 NEW: Nurses in England have rejected the government’s pay deal and announced a fresh round of strike action. 👉 The next strikes will take place over 48 hours from 8.p.m on 30 April to 8.p.m. on 2 May, with no emergency cover. ✍️ Lucy Dunn https://t.co/msdL99uj0q
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For the sake of the country, it is imperative that there is movement on the current position – from both the BMA and the government.
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🗞 The end of meritocracy: how virtue trumped ability ✍️ In mag: • Kate Andrews on what junior doctors really earn • James Heale on how the Sunak attack ads reveal the split in Labour • Paul Wood on the dangerous shadow war between Iran and Israel https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🎙️ Will public support for junior doctors wane? @FraserNelson and I speak to @lucyidunn on the latest @SpecCoffeeHouse Shots 👇 https://t.co/ojsJY3i8Vx
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🎙Coffee House Shots | Will public support for junior doctors wane? 🗣 As junior doctors strike over pay disputes, Lucy Dunn, social media editor and qualified doctor, speaks to Fraser Nelson and Kate Andrews about what this means for the NHS https://t.co/7RTerlkvqE
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🗞 Unholy mess: Pope Francis and Justin Welby have presided over a decade of disaster ✍️ In the mag: • Rishi Sunak on the greatness of Nigel Lawson • Matthew Parris on his messiah complex • Rod Liddle on the fall of the Sainted Women Leaders https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Macron’s last adventure: the president vs the public ✍️ In this week’s magazine: • Alex Salmond gives his advice to the new First Minister • David Kezerashvili: ‘Georgia needs help from the West’ • Posie Parker on her clash with the mob https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 The ghost children: how the pandemic created a lost generation ✍️ In mag: • Sasha Hinkley on the James Webb space telescope and the search for alien life • Kara Kennedy on how she dodged a killer • Ian Williams on China’s answer to ChatGPT https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Crash test: Kate Andrews and Julian Jessop on the new era of economic uncertainty ✍️ In mag: • Eyck Freymann on what Britain should do for Taiwan • Katy Balls on Rishi’s hard-truth Budget • Gus Carter on how sexual politics is damaging young men https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Is Putin winning? Peter Frankopan on how the world order is changing in his favour ✍️ In mag: • Richard Dawkins on the anti-science witch-hunt • Nick Farrell on how Giorgia Meloni is remaking Europe • Max Jeffrey on the lucrative business of war https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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🗞 Farewell to arms: Andrew Roberts on the hollowing out of the British Army ✍️ In mag: • Andrew Drury on being played by Shamima Begum • Isabel Hardman on the secular inquisition • Julie Burchill welcomes the rise of the ‘throuple’ https://t.co/lxkO73UObX
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