New Statesman - <![CDATA[Phil Whitaker]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/writers/phil_whitaker en <![CDATA[Competition über alles]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2011/11/nhs-patients-commissioning http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2011/11/nhs-patients-commissioning Mon, 14 Nov 2011 00:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker The tragedy of the coalition’s health reforms is that they contained a few good ideas. But the relentless belief in the supremacy of the market has left doctors disheartened, writes a GP who has worked in the NHS for 20 years

]]> <![CDATA[The NHS is Britain’s beating heart – don’t let it flatline]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2011/02/nhs-care-patients-service http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2011/02/nhs-care-patients-service Thu, 03 Mar 2011 08:33:26 GMT Phil Whitaker After 30 years of meddling with the NHS, are we now at risk of destroying our most precious public service?

]]> <![CDATA[A right pig’s ear]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2009/10/swine-flu-pandemic-cases http://www.newstatesman.com/health/2009/10/swine-flu-pandemic-cases Thu, 08 Oct 2009 05:46:12 GMT Phil Whitaker The government panicked over the threat of swine flu – and got its response completely wrong

]]> <![CDATA[State of decline. Fiction - Damon Galgut's allegorical novel about life in post-apartheid South Africa deserves its place on the Booker Prize shortlist, writes Phil Whitaker]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200309290047 http://www.newstatesman.com/200309290047 Mon, 29 Sep 2003 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker The Good Doctor Damon Galgut Atlantic Books, 240pp, £10.99 ISBN 1843542013

]]> <![CDATA[Novel of the week]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200308250032 http://www.newstatesman.com/200308250032 Mon, 25 Aug 2003 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker Politics Adam Thirlwell Jonathan Cape, 280pp, £12.99 ISBN 0224071041

]]> <![CDATA[The genetic future. Phil Whitaker on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200304140037 http://www.newstatesman.com/200304140037 Mon, 14 Apr 2003 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker Watson and DNA: making a scientific revolution Victor K McElheny John Wiley & Sons, 380pp, £18.99 ISBN 0470854294 Pointing from the Grave Samantha Weinberg Hamish Hamilton, 368pp, £14.99 DNA: the secret of life James D Watson with Andrew Berry Heinemann, 446pp, £20

]]> <![CDATA[Nurture, mate. Phil Whitaker on the wrong-headed pyschobabble of a career pontificate]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200211040044 http://www.newstatesman.com/200211040044 Mon, 04 Nov 2002 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker They F*** You Up Oliver James Bloomsbury, 370pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747551561

]]> <![CDATA[Return of the native]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200004030057 http://www.newstatesman.com/200004030057 Mon, 03 Apr 2000 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro Faber, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571203841

]]> <![CDATA[Novel of the week]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200003200055 http://www.newstatesman.com/200003200055 Mon, 20 Mar 2000 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker The Abomination Paul Golding Picador, 515pp, £16 ISBN 0330392662

]]> <![CDATA[Harem politics]]> http://www.newstatesman.com/200001170058 http://www.newstatesman.com/200001170058 Mon, 17 Jan 2000 12:00:00 GMT Phil Whitaker What the Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin Doubleday, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385600437

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