Labour created the cult of the NHS. Now it is desperate to tear it down
Looking forward into 2024, it is tempting to utterly despair at the country’s prospects. A failure to control the borders threatens to plunge British liberal democracy into a fresh existential crisis and cleave the country once more into warring tribes. The country is set to slide further into an economic ice age. Neglected elephants in the room are evolving into dangerous woolly mammoths, from the potentially underestimated costs of net zero to the ruling class’s colossal – perhaps irremediable