Grooming, Shipman, Chilcot: for all the post-inquiry ‘never agains’, the default is inaction | Isabel Hardman
HHas anything about politics in the past week made you feel at all close to home? The political class suddenly talking about a multi-year scandal just because a tech billionaire starts making noise? Some elements were novel. But other things are a depressingly normal part of Westminster culture. For example, there has been a flurry […]
Start the rebuilding work, Keir Starmer, and show us you’re different to the last bunch of cowboys | Isabel Hardman
IWill this really be the year the government “gets things done”? Keir Starmer has branded this year a “year of rebuilding” and has returned to work with a series of announcements he claims show the government is serious about rebuilding the NHS. Tomorrow, he is expected to unveil a selective recovery plan for health services, […]
California food critic couple Allan Borgen and Isabel “Izzy” Busse killed by semi driving wrong way
Two popular food critics from California who were traveling in Missouri were killed when a large tractor-trailer crashed head-on into their vehicle on Saturday, authorities said. “Let’s Dine Out” star Alan Bogen and Isabelle “Izzy” Busse, longtime lovers, were driving on Interstate 44 in east Lebanon at approximately 6:45 p.m. when a tractor-trailer traveling in […]
A Labour government will have five years to fix the NHS or face the unthinkable | Isabel Hardman
IThroughout the long life of the NHS, people have consistently made the same two assumptions. The first is that medical services may cease to exist at any time. The second is that the NHS is so important to how Britons view their country and their welfare that it can make or break elections. Even as […]