A silent injustice robs medicine of much of its best talent. According to the Education Statistics Authority quoted in the BMJ, 25% of first year medical students in UK universities were from private schools – which account for only 7% of all school pupils. At the same time, research published in BMC  Medicine, shows that…

Cameron played Russian roulette and lost, but the idea that the public can be gagged for evermore because of remarks he made before the referendum in an attempt to stop Tories switching to UKIP (eg that the outcome of the referendum must be considered final whatever happens afterwards) is simply ridiculous and must be challenged. 

Stop Press! 26 June 2016 The outcome of the referendum on Britain’s membership of the European Union is a potential disaster for Britain.  Millions of people voted to break a relationship with our most important trading partners without any clear idea of what that would entail. Our country faces two alternatives. The first, as promoted…