Victoria Macdonald

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Cuts are a feminist issue, Victoria Macdonald

12 August 2010 | Victoria Macdonald

The Fawcett Society is taking the government to court over what it believes are spending cuts that disproportionately affect women. Could others follow? Read more...

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Not examining the patient, by Victoria Macdonald

29 April 2010 | Victoria Macdonald

The NHS usually plays a starring role in general elections. But in this one there’s more interest in hung Parliaments than health check-ups Read more...

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Spending time with their families

8 June 2009 | Victoria Macdonald

It’s been a bad week for women in politics. Within the space of a few days, Home Secretary Jacqui Smith and Communities Secretary Hazel Blears have resigned from the Cabinet. Read more

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Too much Woolas thinking

27 March 2009 | Victoria Macdonald

Around Whitehall, Hazel Blears and Phil Woolas are increasingly known as the good cop/bad cop pair when it comes to immigration. Read more

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Nanny does know best

30 January 2009 | Victoria Macdonald

At a recent lunch for journalists in the House of Commons, Health Secretary Alan Johnson joked that under the new NHS Constitution ‘the broccoli police’ would not be sent in to monitor what people were eating. Read more

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Cheer up, it has already happened

17 October 2008 | Victoria Macdonald

For weeks now there has been nothing but unremitting gloom. The collapse of the markets, the failure of Fannie Mae, Lehman Brothers, Icesave, etc and inflation soaring to its highest level for 16 years. Read more

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Reasons to be cheerful

4 July 2008 | Victoria Macdonald

It has long been a source of frustration for politicians that if you ask a member of the public what they think of the National Health Service they will grumble and moan and say it is all going to rack and ruin. Read more

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In sickness and in wealth

18 April 2008 | Victoria Macdonald

General practitioners are, on the whole, a conservative (with a small ‘c’) bunch. Read more

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Big Brother blunders on

29 February 2008 | Victoria Macdonald

On a very busy news day last week an important story was buried. Not deliberately, of course. Although this was no Jo Moore moment, it was nevertheless convenient.

An independent report by Deloitte into the ContactPoin Read more

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The economics of desperation

31 August 2007 | Victoria Macdonald

There is no one simple answer to resolving the horror of gun crime. Read more

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