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A bloody great article in the Guardian
" Out of the second world war came the umbrella principle: if money was no object when it came to killing people, it should be no object when it comes to keeping them alive. From this sprang the greatest public housing project eve
A bloody great article in the Guardian
" Out of the second world war came the umbrella principle: if money was no object when it came to killing people, it should be no object when it comes to keeping them alive. From this sprang the greatest public housing project eve
undertaken in this country, the extension of universal free education and, most importantly, the moral imperative that medicine should be free at the point of need. "
"Now, something much more interesting has happened: health, and its socialist symbolism, has become the
"Now, something much more interesting has happened: health, and its socialist symbolism, has become the
overriding priority, the most important determinant of policy. All kinds of organising principles and assumptions thus collapse or simply evaporate: profit is less important than life; productivity is less important than protecting people.
Small, tight Thatcherite units of familial care have expanded to encompass neighbours, acquaintances, unknown nurses hundreds of miles way, whose altruism begets gratitude and empathy." https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2020/apr/21/coronavirus-crisis-ends-bad-for-conservatism
