Something interesting is happening in the House of Lords. Baroness O’Loan’s Conscientious Objection (Medical Activities) Bill, now at the committee stage, has put on the agenda an issue which well-deserves to be there. Its point is simple: all healthcare professionals should have a legal right to opt out of certain procedures which they find objectionable.
Rationing did not end in the 1950s. The largest-scale rationing programme is still in existence: our beloved National Health Service. Its austere regime is part of our national life. We no longer queue for bread or sugar, but we most certainly do to see the doctor. We no longer wait in line at the butcher’s,
Junior doctors are striking again: this time, for five days in a row over several weeks. This level of industrial action is without precedent in the history of the NHS. Even though I will soon be employed as a junior doctor under the terms of the contract, I think the decision to strike is scandalous. In
