James Linney
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Continuing the decline
After 14 years of Tory austerity the health service has been left broken. But can Wes Streeting fix things? James Linney lambasts his idea that league tables are part of the solution
A total, not a partial, ban
Medics testify in an open letter to Sir Keir Starmer that the IDF is deliberately targeting children, hospitals and healthworkers. They call for ending economic, diplomatic and military support, reports James Linney
Lights going out
Dissatisfaction rates soar, surgeries close and new contracts are imposed on unwilling GPs - all part of the ongoing privatisation drive, writes James Linney
New kind of cruelty
Shaming and demonising the poor: James Linney takes apart the Tories’ ‘back to work plan’, but nobody should expect anything positive from Sir Keir and Wes Streeting
Empty promises, real threats
James Linney picks apart the NHS workforce plan and warns that Sir Keir’s Labour is committed to exactly the same agenda of privatisation and austerity
Dispatches from the warzone
The Tories are deliberately running down the NHS and the human cost is horrendous. But James Linney does not reckon Labour’s plans amount to anything much better
NHS in meltdown
The Tories have a barely hidden agenda to wreck the post-1945 health service. But James Linney warns against trusting Sir Keir’s alternative government
Plan for sabotage
Though they are on the ropes, it is clear that the NHS is not safe in Tory hands. James Linney puts Thérèse Coffey’s proposals under close examination
Not going away
The dismal inability to defeat the pandemic points to a wider, systemic failure, argues James Linney
At whose service?
Reform of primary care should not be trusted to the likes of Policy Exchange, writes James Linney. This ‘independent’ think tank was set up by Tories to serve the Tory agenda of cost-saving and profit-making
Seasons of crisis
The huge increase in NHS waiting times is not just a result of the pandemic, James Linney explains
Onslaught continues
With the busiest winter period fast approaching, James Linney savages the government’s NHS ‘rescue plan’
A market opportunity
What’s behind the campaign for face-to-face consultations? James Linney gives a GP’s view
One year and counting
While Boris Johnson praises ‘capitalism’ and ‘greed’, his plan to end the lockdown risks thousands more deaths, warns James Linney
Worse than useless
Too little, too late. James Linney takes apart the Tories’ so-called ‘obesity strategy’
Racism and Covid-19
Capitalism itself is the cause of structural social inequality, writes James Linney
Testing times
James Linney has no doubt where the blame lies for all the failures
It is a pandemic
The number of cases outside China has increased 13-fold over the last two weeks alone, says James Linney.
Bats, panic and system failure
What are the origins of the COVID-19 outbreak? How can the spread of this and other new viruses be stopped? James Linney gives some answers...
On target for disaster
James Linney looks at the ever growing waiting times.
Legalise cannabis
The ‘war on drugs’ has very little to do with safeguarding the health of citizens, argues James Linney
The drugs don’t work
The huge problem of antimicrobial resistance and antibiotic shortages is greatly exacerbated by the profit motive, argues James Linney
Deadly cost of austerity
James Linney asks what the fall in life expectancy tells us about the state of capitalism in 2019
Preparing the final assault
James Linney examines the fraud that is NHS England’s ‘long-term plan’
Science, health and profit
Exaggerated claims for artificial intelligence are being used to further the government’s agenda of privatised healthcare, says James Linney
No compliance with ‘hostile environment’ in NHS
James Linney looks at the impact of Theresa May’s immigration policy on asylum-seekers
A health service worthy of the name
As the NHS approaches its 70th anniversary, James Linney calls for a radically new approach
Legalise them all
James Linney condemns the timidity of Jeremy Corbyn and Diane Abbott
Oxycontin is the opium of the masses
James Linney looks at the American opioid crisis and the cynical role played by big pharma
Costs of commodification
Pharmaceutical companies routinely fail to publish negative results of research into new drugs. James Linney looks at the case of antidepressants
Health service we need
James Linney looks at who benefits from privatisation
With great skill
James Linney urges resistance to the ‘organisation of misery’
Planning the final assault
The introduction of ‘accountable care organisations’ could be the beginning of the end for the NHS, writes James Linney
Offering a real cure
Ending the current chronic underfunding would be just the first step in overcoming the NHS mental-healthcare crisis, writes James Linney
Dedicated staff soldier on
The fight to save the NHS goes hand in hand with the fight to transform Labour, writes James Linney
Not a commodity
The growing trend towards rationing treatment is a disgrace, writes James Linney
Worse than it appears
Why go for open privatisation when you can quietly administer concealed poison? James Linney describes the reality of underfunding
Giving lie to Tory claims
Support for the junior doctors remains firm, writes James Linney
Bigger battles ahead
James Linney analyses the junior doctor contract dispute
Stormy waters ahead
There is more to the NHS funding crisis than they want you to believe, writes James Linney
The bitter taste of capitalism
James Linney reviews Robert Lustig's 'Fat chance: the hidden truth about sugar, obesity and disease,' Forthestate, 2013, pp320, £8.99