Karen Bloor

Oct 30, 2024 | theconversation.com | Linda Yueh |Karen Bloor |Phil Tomlinson |Rachel Scarfe |Shampa Roy-Mukherjee

For the first time in 14 years, it was a Labour chancellor who delivered the UK budget. And for the first time ever, that chancellor was a woman. But Rachel Reeves faces an almighty task: plugging a £40 billion spending gap in the knowledge that pre-election promises not to raise the main taxes are still fresh in people’s memories. Growth was the buzzword of the election campaign – Reeves now had to lay her cards on the table.

Jul 5, 2023 | tolerance.ca | Karen Bloor

The NHS has just turned 75, and the British public find themselves surrounded by jollity. There is a new logo, a 75th-anniversary badge, tea parties with cakes iced in blue, talks in schools, a photography competition, endless articles by people like me, and even some specially made bunting. Is this 75th anniversary a cause for celebration or does it signal a system in old age, creaking its way into a sad decline? Should it be pensioned off?

Jul 5, 2023 | theconversation.com | Karen Bloor

The NHS has just turned 75, and the British public find themselves surrounded by jollity. There is a new logo, a 75th-anniversary badge, tea parties with cakes iced in blue, talks in schools, a photography competition, endless articles by people like me, and even some specially made bunting. Is this 75th anniversary a cause for celebration or does it signal a system in old age, creaking its way into a sad decline? Should it be pensioned off?

Jul 5, 2023 | pmp-magazine.com | Karen Bloor

Prophets of the NHS’s demise have been proved wrong year after year. The NHS has just turned 75, and the British public find themselves surrounded by jollity. There is a new logo, a 75th-anniversary badge, tea parties with cakes iced in blue, talks in schools, a photography competition, endless articles by people like me, and even some specially made bunting. Is this 75th anniversary a cause for celebration or does it signal a system in old age, creaking its way into a sad decline?