The crisis in mental health care is no accident.
On the day he imposed a morale-busting contract on junior doctors, the health secretary also announced... an urgent inquiry into the state of doctor's morale. Beyond satire?
Join Jeremy and colleagues down at the bowling alley for some festive fun...
'Austerity' is as discredited an approach to twenty-first century ills, as the 'miasma' theory was to nineteenth century ones. But where are our modern John Snows?
Job centres are becoming gladiatorial arenas where unemployed people and professionals slug it out, whilst the ethical battle rages.
Once again this weekend we've heard that £13bn of cuts to social security and £22bn of NHS cuts are imminent. Osborne says "we all know" that early cuts give a "smoother ride". But do we?
Recent history suggests NHS pledges are there to be broken - or subverted. Perhaps voters would prefer less manifesto, and more information on the financial interests driving policy making.
As it becomes impossible to deny the devastation being wreaked on the National Health Service by 2012's Health & Social Care Act, who is really pledging to fix it?
Recent experiences show no-one knows how to privatise bits of the English Health Service without damaging the parts - like A&E - that are left behind.
The NHS is in crisis like never before - but the political game ignores the real causes of the problem.
Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg has some nerve to appoint himself the champion of the mentally ill.
