CarolineJMolloy
@carolinejmolloy.bsky.social
Writer, editor, #healthpolicy nerd. Loves evidence, humans, the NHS, equity. NUJ. Green. Grew up on free school meals.
Surprisingly good at identifying plants. Stroud-based. 📧caroline.molloy@cantab.net
Surprisingly good at identifying plants. Stroud-based. 📧caroline.molloy@cantab.net
I covered this stuff for years when I ran openDemocracy's NHS section, which was set up in the wake of the BBC's failure to explain what was being done to the NHS...
Because it had already been done to them, & they were both neutered & trying to curry favour
www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/h...
Because it had already been done to them, & they were both neutered & trying to curry favour
www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/h...
How the BBC betrayed the NHS: an exclusive report on two years of censorship and distortion
In the two years building up to the government’s NHS reform bill, the BBC appears to have categorically failed to uphold its remit of impartiality, parroting government spin as uncontested fact, whils...
www.opendemocracy.net
November 11, 2025 at 12:40 PM
I covered this stuff for years when I ran openDemocracy's NHS section, which was set up in the wake of the BBC's failure to explain what was being done to the NHS...
Because it had already been done to them, & they were both neutered & trying to curry favour
www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/h...
Because it had already been done to them, & they were both neutered & trying to curry favour
www.opendemocracy.net/en/ourbeeb/h...
But of course, sadly, it's the same management consultancy/lobbyist/clubbable insider class, who prescribed these failed nostrums of market competition, who then get to write the reports about how they're not working & how the answer is *more market competition*...
November 11, 2025 at 12:35 PM
But of course, sadly, it's the same management consultancy/lobbyist/clubbable insider class, who prescribed these failed nostrums of market competition, who then get to write the reports about how they're not working & how the answer is *more market competition*...
In many ways what was done to the BBC, from the days of Birtism, was then done to the NHS. The failed free market mantras of supposedly 'lean' working & outsourcing, resulting in a loss of professionalism & creativity & its replacement with sprawling management bureauracy & massive *inefficiencies*.
November 11, 2025 at 12:32 PM
In many ways what was done to the BBC, from the days of Birtism, was then done to the NHS. The failed free market mantras of supposedly 'lean' working & outsourcing, resulting in a loss of professionalism & creativity & its replacement with sprawling management bureauracy & massive *inefficiencies*.
…but Prescott’s Hanover agency has also been employed by the NHS itself, or rather, from those who would undermine the NHS from within, to help sell the idea that public services are hopeless and private provision is far superior (sound familiar?) keepournhspublicgmcr.com/2015/10/01/n...
NHS: The foxes have control
NHS: The foxes have control By Tamasin Cave ‘The whole point of our NHS reforms,’ David Cameron said, is ‘to put the power in the hands of local doctors, so that they make decisions ba…
keepournhspublicgmcr.com
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
…but Prescott’s Hanover agency has also been employed by the NHS itself, or rather, from those who would undermine the NHS from within, to help sell the idea that public services are hopeless and private provision is far superior (sound familiar?) keepournhspublicgmcr.com/2015/10/01/n...
As the excellent Tamasin Cave explained, not only do Hanover work for a lot of people who may not have the NHS’s best interests at heart (cf BBC)…
November 11, 2025 at 8:20 AM
As the excellent Tamasin Cave explained, not only do Hanover work for a lot of people who may not have the NHS’s best interests at heart (cf BBC)…
Init, it sounds like falling over on ice, possibly into dogshit
November 10, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Init, it sounds like falling over on ice, possibly into dogshit
Bah, I don’t like it, sounds a bit facebooky
November 10, 2025 at 7:44 PM
Bah, I don’t like it, sounds a bit facebooky
old Twitter was good, “tweet” entered the lexicon, X is an abomination obviously
November 10, 2025 at 7:05 PM
old Twitter was good, “tweet” entered the lexicon, X is an abomination obviously
Of course! But you’ve actually inspired me to think about the things I love about the BBC
November 10, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Of course! But you’ve actually inspired me to think about the things I love about the BBC
the evidence overwhelmingly shows that if you simply give parents money… they will spend it on their children’s needs. so, you know, just DO that.
November 10, 2025 at 6:56 PM
the evidence overwhelmingly shows that if you simply give parents money… they will spend it on their children’s needs. so, you know, just DO that.
(Because despite what McSweeney tells Starmer and Reeves, most people are actually not cunts)
November 10, 2025 at 6:46 PM
(Because despite what McSweeney tells Starmer and Reeves, most people are actually not cunts)
Reposted by CarolineJMolloy
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
November 10, 2025 at 6:24 AM
"Funnily enough Andy [Wigmore], the only time I ever experienced political interference in one of my investigations at the BBC, was when I was investigating you and Arron Banks
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022
Your mate Robbie Gibb put a stop to a story we were running."
- former BBC investigative reporter Manveen Rana, 2022