All Comment articles – Page 306

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    Michael White on YouTube politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Only 19 per cent thought the local service had improved and 52 per cent thought it had deteriorated. These results are rubbish.'

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    Michael White on the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Lord Hunt thinks trickling out the new IT network is better than the CSA’s doomed big-bang approach

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    Michael White: the IT programme

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'I suspect that the NHS IT programme will come good - after further tribulations'

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    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Devolving power to the front line is a crucial test for Brown, an instinctive centraliser.

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    Michael white on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Mr Dorrell cited that withering phrase used in school reports that Ms Hewitt is 'too easily satisfied with her own work''

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Labour MPs like Johnson, indeed they would have made him deputy leader'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Alan Johnson is keen on neglected causes like stroke so his startling brevity in the debate implies no disrespect'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'It is hard for health professionals to admit it, but the Daily Mail is not always wrong'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'The key is persuading voters that many changes are driven by medical purposes, said Gordon Brown'

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    We've said it here before, and it won't go away. When trust fades, the effect is like dry rot. It creeps into corners of the infrastructure, including the politics of resource allocation with the NHS, and becomes very hard to drive out. It ceases to be a matter for Tony ...

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Tony Blair made an interesting speech in Nottingham the other day, entitled 'Healthy Living: whose responsibility?'. It didn't get a lot of attention in the newspapers that I read, though Number 10 tells me that such discussions generate huge local attention as they affect real people's real lives.

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    Michael White on politics

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Voters are losing patience with Labour's performance - and its excuses'

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    Mediawatch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The paper suggested that any 'sentient being' would be so aghast at the details of the Cornwall report that they would immediately want to turn to the sports pages

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'Hats must come off for the clever combining of deficit and superbug'

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    The irony is that 'taking politics out of the NHS' is sure to be mired in political speculation

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Even if they do not come up with any new policy, they've got an awful lot of ammunition with which to bombard the government

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    Media watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    'We are supposed to be a nation of dog lovers, but was this a step too far?'

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    Your caring, sharing News of the Worldthis week chose to reveal that David Beckham's son Romeo suffers from epilepsy by splashing with a front-page picture of the four-year-old cowering from the paparazzi's flash guns.

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    Media Watch

    2007-01-01T00:00:00Z

    A pledge made 10 years ago by Tony Blair returned to haunt him this week.