Monday, January 31, 2011

The History Boys

Monday, 31 January 2011

“Those who cannot remember the past, are condemned to repeat it.” I’d like to paraphrase those words by George Santayana and say they are condemned to become politicians. More precisely they become health ministers. Whenever a new party takes office, especially after years in the wilderness, it has to run around with dynamic zeal and change all that went before it in the NHS because it was just plain wrong. They know the cure for the ills of the health service, except that the medicine is usually the same as [...]

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