All articles by *Michael White – Page 11
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One-time Trot who became a doctor in the House
Way back in February, when Tony Blair's government was a mere nine months old, I caught a late-night adjournment debate in which Dr Ian Gibson, newly-elected Labour MP for Norwich North, tore into the state of British cancer research with knowledge and passion.
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Why Bickerstaffe is still no Buddy of New Labour
I don't know where you were when the Easter pay debate erupted. But St Ives in Cornwall was as good a vantage point as any. Pay is notoriously low and seasonal in the West Country, though indices of poverty (and thus of NHS grants) are distorted by high levels of ...
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Blood on the carpet as axe falls on Sir Colin
MPs knew as well as anyone else that some sort of showdown was coming over the dear old blood transfusion service ever since the National Blood Authority swept away the 50-year-old patchwork five years ago last week. In the AIDS era blood is a sensitive as well as symbolic commodity.
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Don't count your dosh before it's delivered
Though I'm too old to be a junior hospital doctor, it's an occupational hazard in my line of work to be woken at night to diagnose troublesome cases. So naturally I was wheeled out mid-week to examine an inflamed Times headline which was obviously running a temperature.
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Top-shelf Tess in a fruitless search for a good read
The other night I caught Tessa Jowell on Channel 4 News battling against undue sexual candour in teenage girls' magazines that are actually read by pre-teens.