Phil Whitaker
Articles by Phil Whitaker
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Competition über alles
- 14 November 2011
- 1 comment
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
Health
The NHS is Britain’s beating heart – don’t let it flatline
- 03 March 2011
- 19 comments
After 30 years of meddling with the NHS, are we now at risk of destroying our most precious public service?
Health
A right pig’s ear
- 08 October 2009
- 1 comment
The government panicked over the threat of swine flu – and got its response completely wrong
Books
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
- 29 September 2003
The Good Doctor Damon Galgut Atlantic Books, 240pp, £10.99 ISBN 1843542013
Books
Novel of the week
- 25 August 2003
Politics Adam Thirlwell Jonathan Cape, 280pp, £12.99 ISBN 0224071041
SciTech
The genetic future. Phil Whitaker on the 50th anniversary of the discovery of DNA
- 14 April 2003
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
Ideas
Nurture, mate. Phil Whitaker on the wrong-headed pyschobabble of a career pontificate
- 04 November 2002
They F*** You Up Oliver James Bloomsbury, 370pp, £16.99 ISBN 0747551561
Books
Return of the native
- 03 April 2000
When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro Faber, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571203841
Books
Novel of the week
- 20 March 2000
The Abomination Paul Golding Picador, 515pp, £16 ISBN 0330392662
Books
Harem politics
- 17 January 2000
What the Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin Doubleday, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385600437
