Articles by Jock Barge



Some Utopian Thinking on Health (Part II)

Posted on July 21, 2011 | 1 Comment

In the first post I talked about the need for a more idealistic health policy than one which relies so heavily upon the pharmaceutical industry, leading to the question of how we arrived at our current situation. I will address that question now, and part III I’ll have a go at suggesting some practical steps that might be taken to [...]

Some Utopian Thinking on Health (Part I)

Posted on July 8, 2011 | 2 Comments

The NHS is generally a pretty unifying issue. Such is the affection in which it is held, that the Tories realize that great stealth is needed in their assault upon it – and the fact that free and universal healthcare should be so sacrosanct represents perhaps the greatest success of the British Left in the [...]