The government may abandon plans to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail after first round offers fell well short of expectations The government is considering abandoning controversial plans to sell a minority stake in Royal Mail after first-round offers fell well short of expectations. A decision on whether to continue with the auction could be taken as early as this week. Whatever the outcome, th...

Tom Watson hinted when his name was mentioned in connection with the controversy over Damian MacBride blew up that he might be wanting a lawyer. In the end it was Carter-Ruck not Schillings. He took action for defamation against the Daily Mail over an article by Iain Dale, and he has won: Associated Newspapers Limited, the publisher of the Mail on Sunday and the Daily Mail, apologised today to Tom...

Earlier today Nick Clegg gave a major speech on the NHS, signalling big changes to the NHS Bill, something Paul Burstow had talked of on Friday. The Daily Mail has a straight, factual report of the speech, which given its normal reporting of Nick Clegg almost counts as praise: A huge shake-up of the NHS

Tory MP Nigel Evans has written an article - at the same time moving and disturbing - for The Daily Mail about the death of his mother in an NHS hospital: "The last, harrowing moments of my mother's life will...

I really must get round to doing a full article on why I am so bitterly opposed to the Daily Mail and its editorial slant. I plan to do this soon, and as part of such an article, I will be responding in full to new contributor and blogger ‘QT’ (see his blog via our

The Daily Mail today fulminates to its addled readership “Nice blasted for denying cancer patients lifeline after snubbing Avastin deal”. On the surface, this seems terrible. But, as with the seemingly endless slew of anti-NICE stories, there is a deeper agenda here to undermine the NHS.

Allison Pearson, Daily Mail columnist and my former classmate, writes today: My excellent MP, the LibDems' David Howarth, wrote a brilliant article in our local paper. Alongside some photographs of various senior local government officials and NHS fat cats - all on ginormous salaries for four-day weeks - David posed a simple question: 'What is it they do? All I want to know is what do th...

In an astonishing reverse ferret, The Daily Mail decreed today that the NHS is A Good Thing, and not a bloated misery machine intent on worsening peoples' lives and burning taxpayers' money as previously thought. Readers were surprised to see on the Mail's front page news of a 'Stunning NHS transplant triumph', in which surgeons carried out five life-saving operations using organs from just two do...

Brown suffers setback to Royal Mail part-privatisation, as one of the front-runners to buy into the state-owned postal operator pulled out

The NHS is a fortress. Too big to be managed, too big to be accountable. And the unaccountable managers mismanage with impunity. Thus we had the Daily Mail telling us that "family doctors have been ordered to ration the number of patients they send for life-saving cancer scans to save money". Now, as the article explains, this contradicts government policy. The cuts are being brought in despite Go...