Public policies have largely favoured the development of a for-profit health sector. Here is a study of the EU, country by country. Brexit Britain – surely the biggest offender – accordingly gets off the hook.
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Inequality
Adam Tooze: Life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness? How China, Cuba and Albania came to have higher life expectancy than the USA
This one is a week old but the statistics it contains are truly stunning and worth your time. Read the article here.
National Politics
Matthew d’Ancona: The Catalan dream will not be extinguished by force
“Rajoy’s strategy has been spectacularly unnuanced. At every turn, he has scorned the independence movement as no more than a plot “to liquidate our constitution”, a “criminal” conspiracy, and “a clear violation of the laws, […]
EU politics
Danny Dorling: Peak inequality
The gap between the very rich and the rest is wider in Britain than in any other large country in Europe, and society is the most unequal it has been since shortly after the First […]
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