Andy Cowper
@hpiandycowper.bsky.social
Freelance journalist: writes about health policy and politics of the English NHS in weekly column (£) ‘Cowper’s Cut’ on www.healthpolicyinsight.com.
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Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
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not only was Prescott’s former employer Hanover Communications a Tory outfit, it also represented Sky News for many years….
Michael Prescott and Sir Robbie Gibb both bailed out of journalism years ago, and enjoy lucrative careers in corporate PR. And now they are the arbiters of BBC editorial standards. Go figure www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
The BBC has bigger impartiality problems than its coverage of Trump
It is the BBC’s entire governance structure–rather than individual stories–that should cause most concern
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 7:40 AM
not only was Prescott’s former employer Hanover Communications a Tory outfit, it also represented Sky News for many years….
Hilarious www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Farage says small business owners who thought Brexit would cut regulation have been betrayed – UK politics live
Reform UK leader claims that burden of regulation is worse than before the referendum
www.theguardian.com
November 10, 2025 at 12:44 PM
Hilarious www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
An important article to read today www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Sadly, the BBC’s quality standards have been in free-fall for years.
Sadly, the BBC’s quality standards have been in free-fall for years.
How the government captured the BBC
A right-wing cabal, largely unaccountable, is waging war on the principles that made our public broadcaster great. It must not succeed
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 8:37 AM
An important article to read today www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/media/...
Sadly, the BBC’s quality standards have been in free-fall for years.
Sadly, the BBC’s quality standards have been in free-fall for years.
This holds up. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
Cowper’s Cut 379: In office, but not in power as the NHS drinks on in The World’s Biggest Last Chance Saloon
English health policy and politics of the Conservative governments 2010-24 is best understood in its three distinct eras:
1. The Lansley Regime (2010-12);
2. The ‘Fuck, We Need To Get Simon Stevens ...
www.healthpolicyinsight.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:16 PM
This holds up. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
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Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
November 9, 2025 at 6:55 PM
Glad that someone has finally taken responsibility for the appalling assault on democracy that was the Jan. 6 insurrection.
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
Slightly confused that it's the Director-General of the BBC, but what do I know?
#leadership #cat #catleadership #disguised #disguisedcat #disguisedcatleadership #leadership #cat #meow
‘What do you mean, disguising myself as a pint of Guinness didn’t work?’
November 6, 2025 at 12:10 AM
‘What do you mean, disguising myself as a pint of Guinness didn’t work?’
November 5, 2025 at 8:11 PM
‘What do you mean, disguising myself as a pint of Guinness didn’t work?’
Having reluctantly glanced at those AI-generated summaries at the top of internet searches, and seen easily-demonstrable factual errors in many of them, I wonder when people will start to realise just how much of the hype around AI is complete and obvious bullshit.
November 5, 2025 at 8:03 PM
Having reluctantly glanced at those AI-generated summaries at the top of internet searches, and seen easily-demonstrable factual errors in many of them, I wonder when people will start to realise just how much of the hype around AI is complete and obvious bullshit.
Gig pricing has gone truly stupid. The Hives are not a £55 act.
November 4, 2025 at 9:29 PM
Gig pricing has gone truly stupid. The Hives are not a £55 act.
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Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.
November 4, 2025 at 8:21 AM
Late period Osborne: interest rates at zero and 50-80bn of headroom: and his priority was “don’t invest”.
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Grok is (falsely)hallucinating it quickly retracted its widespread false claim. It did not: it carried on claiming there were several independent sources + later falsely claimed these (imagined) eye-witness accounts had been reported in broadcast news segments
November 3, 2025 at 9:56 PM
Grok is (falsely)hallucinating it quickly retracted its widespread false claim. It did not: it carried on claiming there were several independent sources + later falsely claimed these (imagined) eye-witness accounts had been reported in broadcast news segments
It’s possible that @roberthutton.co.uk is now the most insightful writer about Westminster politics. thecritic.co.uk/sharkbait/?u...
Sharkbait | Robert Hutton | The Critic Magazine
“A relationship is like a shark,” Woody Allen tells Diane Keaton in Annie Hall. “It has to constantly move forward or it dies.” Watching Nigel Farage trying to keep his Reform Party interesting on…
thecritic.co.uk
November 3, 2025 at 10:18 PM
It’s possible that @roberthutton.co.uk is now the most insightful writer about Westminster politics. thecritic.co.uk/sharkbait/?u...
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The east wing of science is being demolished by the new administration.
Read my Substack about a new documentary I’ve made with Sandra Kanthal about the impact on biomedical scientists at Harvard.
open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
Read my Substack about a new documentary I’ve made with Sandra Kanthal about the impact on biomedical scientists at Harvard.
open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
Science under siege
A new audio documentary from The Economist
open.substack.com
October 29, 2025 at 5:11 PM
The east wing of science is being demolished by the new administration.
Read my Substack about a new documentary I’ve made with Sandra Kanthal about the impact on biomedical scientists at Harvard.
open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
Read my Substack about a new documentary I’ve made with Sandra Kanthal about the impact on biomedical scientists at Harvard.
open.substack.com/pub/overmatt...
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Ah, Gorgeous George. The man who never met a mass-murdering dictator he didn't revere. Though he might only have met their decoy doubles, to be fair.
He’s got the X look down pat. Seriously, this guy’s enthusiasm for mass slaughter makes Arik Sharon look like Mandela
November 3, 2025 at 8:21 PM
Ah, Gorgeous George. The man who never met a mass-murdering dictator he didn't revere. Though he might only have met their decoy doubles, to be fair.
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Who knew all the NHS needed to boost productivity was ICB staff spending half their week job hunting on Indeed?
November 2, 2025 at 9:46 PM
Who knew all the NHS needed to boost productivity was ICB staff spending half their week job hunting on Indeed?
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“Officials said slashing back office staff, such as managers, and reinvesting the savings in front-line doctors and nurses had helped fuel the improvement.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
November 2, 2025 at 3:50 PM
“Officials said slashing back office staff, such as managers, and reinvesting the savings in front-line doctors and nurses had helped fuel the improvement.” 🙄🙄🙄🙄🙄
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Hannan's lurch to far-right ethnonationalism began at least as far back as 2018, when he was palling around with neo-Nazi lunatic (and fellow Roger Scruton disciple!) Thierry Baudet...
November 2, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Hannan's lurch to far-right ethnonationalism began at least as far back as 2018, when he was palling around with neo-Nazi lunatic (and fellow Roger Scruton disciple!) Thierry Baudet...
This is absolutely hilarious from Young Master Wesley: the NHS middle managers in question haven’t been sacked yet, because there’s no redundancy budget www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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November 2, 2025 at 3:37 PM
This is absolutely hilarious from Young Master Wesley: the NHS middle managers in question haven’t been sacked yet, because there’s no redundancy budget www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/202...
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The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
Matt Goodwin attributes a crime that he now knows appears to have been committed by people born in Britain in the early 1990s to "mass uncontrolled immigration"
November 2, 2025 at 12:06 PM
The sheer greasy desperation from these bastards that any violent crime is committed by an immigrant so they can continue their grift. Even when they know it isn't true. Foul.
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We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
November 2, 2025 at 2:35 PM
We're now at "black people aren't British". Open sewer racism. Look forward to seeing him on QT again soon.
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One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Reform Is Losing Councillors Elected In May At An 'Unusual' Rate
Reform UK has lost more than 5 per cent of the councillors it had elected six months ago, an analysis by PoliticsHome has found.
www.politicshome.com
November 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
One in twenty Reform councillors elected in May 2025 has left by the Autumn
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
- half expelled/suspended
- a quarter resigned from council
- some defected
An "unusual rate" of attrition in 6 months, says Tony Travers
www.politicshome.com/news/article...
Fascinating www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
The Jeremy Bamber twist: does Britain’s most notorious murderer finally have an alibi?
This week, audio footage was released by the New Yorker magazine, which seemed to exonerate Bamber, who has been in prison for 40 years. Could this lead to his release?
www.theguardian.com
November 2, 2025 at 11:09 AM
Fascinating www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...