Neal Lawson
Articles by Neal Lawson
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Wanted: a new bedside manner
- 03 January 2008
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After years of the wrong reforms, the NHS needs democratising and popularising. The left must win this battleground in the struggle between society and the market
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The big issue that won't be discussed
- 25 September 2006
The Liberal Democrats may have voted to drop their 50p top rate policy, but at least they had the courage to conduct an open debate about taxing Britain more
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Where wealth disparities and violence meet
- 07 August 2006
As our politicians shed responsibility for managing the economy they have to prove their importance elsewhere. That place is the crime agenda
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Where idealism and pragmatism meet
- 19 June 2006
Time was when Tony Blair espoused radical causes. Neal Lawson says utopianism is alive and well
Politics
The politics column - Neal Lawson wants less caution from Gordon
- 20 February 2006
Initial plans for the transition are out of date, gathering dust on some Treasury shelf. Everyone hopes Gordon Brown has a programme but no one seems to know if he has
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What is the point of conference?
- 26 September 2005
It should not be about endorsing "what is", but planning what could be
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Burn the village to save the village
- 29 March 2004
Blairism aims to help public services by making them commercial, and so kills their values - rather like the effect of GIs on Vietnam
