29 February, 2012 // Category: Activism, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and whose latest book is The Plot Against the NHS (with Stewart Player). He spoke to NLP co-editors Alex Doherty and Ed Lewis about the political struggle over the NHS and...
21 February, 2012 // Category: Gender equality, Health
Psychotherapist Susie Orbach and writer and editor Sharon Haywood are two of the main organisers of the Anybody initiative. They spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty. Commercial slimming clubs such as Weight Watchers and Slimming World argue that they are helping women (and some men) to deal with...
14 February, 2012 // Category: Environment, Health
Ro Randall is a psychotherapist and long time climate change activist. Among other works, she is the author of Loss and Climate Change: The Cost of Parallel Narratives. She spoke to NLP's Alex Doherty. Typically psychoanalysis is characterised as an inward looking approach to mental health,...
04 November, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Health
Last month UNICEF released a report into child well-being in the UK, as a follow-up to their study in 2007, which ranked the UK in bottom place out of 21 developed countries for the wellbeing of children. Samia Aziz spoke to Agnes Nairn, who wrote the report, about her findings. Nairn is also the...
03 November, 2011 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Health, International, Politics
In the development business, our greatest ambition is to put ourselves out of a job. The opposite seems to be true of the G20. At least, that’s one explanation for their aversion to tackling the underlying problems of the global economy, which can only result in the world lurching from one...
12 September, 2011 // Category: Corporate power, Health, Politics
In voting for the third reading of Andrew Lansley’s Health and Social Care Bill last week MPs voted to replace the NHS as a public service with a system of competing businesses – foundation trusts, social enterprises and for-profit corporations. The government’s claim that the Bill does not...
06 June, 2011 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and was until recently the co-editor of Socialist Register. An expert on the politics of health, Colin has recently written The Plot Against the NHS, co-authored by Stewart...
02 June, 2011 // Category: Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
Colin Leys is an honorary professor of politics at Goldsmiths College London, who has worked in the UK, Africa and Canada, and was until recently the co-editor of Socialist Register. An expert on the politics of health, Colin has recently written The Plot Against the NHS, co-authored by Stewart...
21 October, 2010 // Category: Economy, Employment & Welfare, Health, Politics
Chancellor George Osborne’s Comprehensive Spending Review (CSR) is being widely portrayed as a “gamble”: Osborne is “gambling” on the private sector filling the gap left by the withdrawal of public spending. The prospect of this happening is low: Joseph Stiglitz claims that Osborne is “betting it...
19 August, 2010 // Category: Corporate power, Health
It has become overwhelmingly clear that the Coalition government is using the deficit and the claimed need for “austerity” as a pretext to greatly boost the power of the private sector vis-à-vis the public sector. The main battlefield in their assault is the NHS. The Guardian reports that...
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