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This article was published in The Times, 03/08/2022. Even by the standards of recent years, our politics is moving at extraordinary speed. But it would be a...

Sajid Javid had been to visit his mother, Zubaida, in Bristol, and was about to arrive home in London when he got the phone call from his younger brother. He...

Fewer than five per cent of blood donors who gave blood in the last year were from black, Asian and minority ethnic communities. Yet 1,000 people in England –...

This article was originally published in The Telegraph, 09/03/2022 When the NHS was launched in 1948, the first NHS pamphlet that landed on people’s doorsteps...

As wave after wave of Covid has crashed against our defences during the last two years, the NHS has managed to stand its ground. Nurses, doctors, cleaners and...

Someone is diagnosed with cancer every 90 seconds in the UK. My dad was one of them. I lost him to this horrendous disease and know too well the pain and grief...

This article was published in the Mail on Sunday on 09/01/2022. Picture by Simon Dawson / No 10 Downing Street. Like so many people, I’ve been appalled by the...