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

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?

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

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

Novel of the week

  • 25 August 2003

Politics Adam Thirlwell Jonathan Cape, 280pp, £12.99 ISBN 0224071041

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

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

Return of the native

  • 03 April 2000

When We Were Orphans Kazuo Ishiguro Faber, 256pp, £16.99 ISBN 0571203841

Novel of the week

  • 20 March 2000

The Abomination Paul Golding Picador, 515pp, £16 ISBN 0330392662

Harem politics

  • 17 January 2000

What the Body Remembers Shauna Singh Baldwin Doubleday, 320pp, £12.99 ISBN 0385600437

Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

Sheryl Sandberg: Facebook’s $1.6bn woman

A witch-hunt?

A witch-hunt against the Sun?

Osborne's woes

Osborne hoisted with his own petard

Marr's monarchism

Enough of this royal deference

The interview

Preview: Ken Livingstone: “The world is run by monsters”

On Syria

Intervention in Syria won’t work, so how do we stop Assad?

The interview

Preview: Boris Johnson: “I’ll tell you what makes me angry – lefty crap”

GOP race so far

Infographic: Republican primary race 2012
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