Skip to main content

Bidgood's Blog

Search This Blog

Posts

Book Comparison: Andrew Adonis’s ‘5 Days in May’ and David Laws’s ’22 Days in May’

on June 05, 2013

22 Days in May 5 Days in May Andrew Adonis Chris Huhne coalition David Laws Ed Balls Ed Miliband Gordon Grown Nick Clegg Paddy Ashdown traffic light coalition Vince Cable

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Why I'm rooting for Labour for a Referendum

on May 15, 2013

1975 Anthony Wells Brexit Ed Miliband European Union Glenis Willmott Jon Cruddas Labour for a Referendum loss-aversion Martin Sorrell Progress referendum Simon Sweeney Tim Montgomerie

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Book: Tangled Up in Blue by Rowenna Davis

on May 02, 2013

aspirational socialism Blair Blue Labour Burnham Duncan Weldon Ed Miliband Graeme Cooke Jon Cruddas Maurice Glasman NHS One Nation Purple Book Rowenna Davis social market Tangled Up in Blue

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Thatcher

on April 10, 2013

Alan Milburn Clement Atlee Conservative Dan Hodges Disraeli Ed Miliband James Gill John Moore Ken Clarke Llloyd George Margaret Thatcher NHS Rowenna Davis Section 28 Tony Blair

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

What Eastleigh means

on March 02, 2013

2015 By-Election Conservative Eastleigh Immigration Labour Lib Dem Maurice Glasman Southwark UKIP

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

What the NHS Can Learn from Scandinavia

on February 24, 2013

Decentralisation Ed Miliband NHS One Nation Scandinavia

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Whole-Person Care: I'm Liking The First Outline of ‘One Nation Healthcare’

on February 02, 2013

Andy Burnham Health Lansley reforms NHS One Nation Social Care Whole-Person Care

+

Get link
Facebook
X
Pinterest
Email
Other Apps

Elliot Bidgood: Hackney, London, United Kingdom; Currently a research and comms consultant with a consultancy for not-for-profits, in addition to freelance work (though I blog here strictly in a personal capacity - all views are my own). Active Labour Party member since 2007 and now belong to Hackney North & Stoke Newington CLP. Social democrat, Fabians & previously a research volunteer for the Labour Finance & Industry Group. Research interests include civil society, health, localism, business, US politics, the EU and political reform. Americaphile and borderline Twitter addict

Archive

2020 5

2018 2
- June 1
- January 1
2017 5
- June 1
- April 1
- March 1
- January 2
2016 13
- November 2
- September 1
- August 1
- June 2
- May 1
- April 1
- February 1
- January 4
2015 18
- November 3
- October 1
- September 1
- August 1
- July 1
- June 1
- May 4
- March 2
- February 1
- January 3
2014 13
- December 2
- November 1
- August 6
- July 1
- June 1
- February 1
- January 1
2013 15
- December 2
- August 4
- July 2
- June 1
- May 2
- April 1
- March 1
- February 2

Show more Show less

Popular Posts

Book: The Undercover Economist by Tim Harford

I started reading The Undercover Economist last year, and though it took me a while to get round to finishing, it largely didn’t disappoint. In it, economist and Financial Times columnist Tim Harford seeks to put economics in everyday context, explaining theories in straightforward terms and giving an eye-opening account of how various actors behave in the marketplace. My copy was actually an amended edition, re-published to respond to the financial crisis of 2008 (the original, published in 2005, instead focused more heavily on the Dotcom bubble).

Dear Jeremy - I'm a Labour member, but I'm not the one you need to hear more from

Jeremy Corbyn is outlining plans for a “democratic revolution” in Labour that will give individual members more say over party policy. This will include online ballots and a review of the powers of Labour’s National Executive Committee (currently elected every two years by party members like me). The measures would therefore move things away from the status quo, whereby official party policy is mostly decided by a mix of the party leadership, the National Policy Forum (also elected by members) and motions at our annual conferences. They also fit into the broader vogue to open up democracy and shift away from top-down representative systems that we’ve seen in recent years, which I’ve at times been favourable to (I’ve blogged in support of recall for MPs , the EU referendum and electing Britain’s EU commissioner , for example). However, I must say that speaking as one of the rank-and-file party members Jeremy is offering to empower, I actually believe this particular refor...

Yes, we need a serious discussion about the NHS. But charges are not the answer

Of late, the all-important issue of NHS funding has been brought back into the news by various contributions to this vital debate – some good, some bad. I write today to try call attention to one of the more worrying ones, which is doing the rounds with ever more frequency, and then give the alternatives. Phillip Lee MP, a GP and a potential chair of Commons Health Committee following respected Tory moderate Stephen Dorrell’s resignation, wrote in The Telegraph on Wednesday about the challenges facing the service. While pledging to “preserve the important principle of access for all”, he suggests this: “Thirdly, we must change how we pay for healthcare to meet future demand. The NHS is not alone in facing a tough financial climate and other countries offer a range of options to test. Norway charges patients to see their GP and for routine tests. Germany has a compulsory social insurance scheme. France uses a means test. In Denmark patients are charged (at cost) for their dr...

Report Abuse

Powered by Blogger