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Paul Richards Articles

Sobering up parliament

Congratulations if you, like me, have just completed a Dry January. My feeling of smugness at having not touched a drop of alcohol since new year’s eve is diluted somewhat by the fact that I am a moderate drinker, and can go a week or two sans booze without noticing....
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The SWP and all that

Like a kind of Miranda (from the Tempest, not the woman who falls over on BBC1) in reverse, Laurie Penny has decided the Socialist Workers’ Party is a Bad Thing. She has looked at the comrades who hitherto she admired as part of a giant, mythological, heroic brave new...
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The NHS after Stafford

If you were to choose when and where to fall ill between January 2005 and March 2009, you’d have been wise to avoid Stafford General Hospital. For over a thousand people, without the choice, their illness led to avoidable death. The NHS in Stafford killed more people...
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The ‘big society’ lies at the bottom of the ocean

The world may not have ended this week, but the 'big society' did. It was born in David Cameron’s Hugo Young memorial lecture of November 2009, and died in the prime minister’s questions last Wednesday. It started in a whirlwind of rhetorical hyperbole: ‘we need a...
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