http://socialliberal.net Mon, 21 May 2012 19:43:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/18/a-positive-alternative-to-labours-nationalist-health-service/ http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/18/a-positive-alternative-to-labours-nationalist-health-service/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 22:38:13 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=294 Yesterday, Health Secretary Andy Burnham wrote an article for the Guardian aiming to set out the clear blue water between Labour and the Conservatives on the National Health Service. In doing so, he inadvertantly demonstrated quite how vapid Labour’s vision … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/18/a-positive-alternative-to-labours-nationalist-health-service/feed/ 7 http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/18/reforming-the-nhs-a-local-and-democratic-voice/ http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/18/reforming-the-nhs-a-local-and-democratic-voice/#comments Tue, 18 Aug 2009 21:14:23 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=288 By Richard S. Grayson This article was originally published in Reinventing the State: Social Liberalism for the 21st Century. We are grateful to Richard for allowing us to reproduce this article. Visit the Methuen website to purchase the latest edition … Continue reading →

]]> http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/18/reforming-the-nhs-a-local-and-democratic-voice/feed/ 4 http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/09/there-is-nothing-random-about-local-control-of-public-services/ http://socialliberal.net/2009/08/09/there-is-nothing-random-about-local-control-of-public-services/#comments Sun, 09 Aug 2009 10:56:26 +0000 James Graham http://socialliberal.net/?p=252 Both Sunder Katwala and Grant Shapps are quite wrong: not only is local variation a price more than worth paying for local control, but it would end the phenomena of postcode lotteries. “Postcode lottery” is a cliché, and a peculiarly … Continue reading →

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