£1.1 million is an awful lot of money to pay out for a painting, even if it is an LS Lowry masterpiece. But I do think it would be a noteworthy gesture if the ‘anonymous buyer’ were to loan it to the Grundy Art Gallery for a few months each year so that we, the
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Cartography can be a dangerous science. War is not fomented always as a consequence of decisions taken in the great capitals, but rather in the confusion and unnoticed arguments of cartographic marginalia, areas where historical disputes have been postponed for political expeditiousness. The cartographer, unsure of his context, draws a line for the sake of
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I try not to do two posts a day, but I just had to make a comment on stroke policy as well. The Government have today put out their new National Stroke Strategy. It’s a ten-year strategy, like most of Gordon’s strategies. This is a good way of seeming to do something, but postponing the
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Lord Carter was the best man at Jack Straw’s wedding. Now Jack Straw is the justice secretary, he obviously thought Lord Carter was also the ‘best man’ to conduct a review of sentencing policy. Just as he thought Lord Carter was the ‘best man’ to conduct a review of prison management.
That last review was what
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Back in 2000, the Government introduced the NHS Cancer Plan. The Government’s idea was, as usual, to throw money at a problem and hope for the best. A raft of targets and indicators were established, and unless something was measured, it didn’t matter. Perverse incentives aplenty bedevilled doctors’ efforts to do their jobs, and treatment
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