Private sector
Our leadership is dire, so why shouldn’t we despise government?
A couple of weeks ago Jeffrey Sachs wrote an opinion piece in the Guardian: ‘Western politicians are dire, but we mustn’t despise government’. There’s no denying Sachs is a persuasive writer, but in this case he writes himself into a corner. The examples he marshals together as evidence for why we should despise governments are so compelling [...]
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The Johnnie Walker Maternal Initiative?
The British government has made an effort to bring the private sector into public health. With the move to bring the food industry to the table to solve the obesity problem (which has been questioned), perhaps it’s not surprising to read today that the Drinks Firm Diageo is funding a pregnancy health initiative. Diageo which includes [...]
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The UK’s (multi) national health service
Itching to work a post on the latest UK National Health Service reforms into a global health blog, you can imagine my delight at reading Felicity Lawrence’s exclusive in the Guardian newspaper last weekend. McDonald’s and PepsiCo to help write UK health policy announced the Guardian: finally, I thought, food and drinks manufacturers whose products [...]
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