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Druin Burch

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Labour's drink-driving law won't cut road deaths

07.01.2026 10

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Dark days / January is the time to drink

06.01.2026 10

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Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

28.12.2025 10

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Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

27.12.2025 40

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Silent night / Christmas and the luxury of fallow time

26.12.2025 10

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The welcome tyranny of Christmas cheer

24.12.2025 10

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Death at Christmas

22.12.2025 4

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Festive fear / Death at Christmas

22.12.2025 10

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The yearly flu crisis is entirely avoidable

17.12.2025 7

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Terror in Australia / Why are world leaders shocked by the Bondi Beach attack?

15.12.2025 20

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How terror triumphed at the Christmas market

13.12.2025 8

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Hot stuff / Supermarkets have finally discovered chilli

10.12.2025 8

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Is racism to blame for the NHS maternity crisis?

09.12.2025 3

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The joy of receiving Christmas cards – even from people I loathe

07.12.2025 10

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Why GPs are reluctant about online booking

05.12.2025 8

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Junior doctors are striking for the wrong reason

03.12.2025 10

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Only radical change can halve NHS waiting lists

25.11.2025 10

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Pens have gone extinct

18.11.2025 10

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Junior doctors’ strikes are good for my wallet – but totally avoidable

14.11.2025 10

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Lest we forget / Are we forgetting how to remember the glorious dead?

11.11.2025 9

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How to endure November

01.11.2025 9

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Reel life / Films aren’t art

28.10.2025 10

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Salad days / The lettuce test of civilisation

25.10.2025 3

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The lettuce test of civilisation

24.10.2025 4

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How did Birmingham succumb to ethnic strife?

20.10.2025 3

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Root cause / The consolation of the quince

15.10.2025 4

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Can the NHS’s anti-Semitism problem be fixed?

10.10.2025 4

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The problem with Labour’s plan for ‘NHS Online’

30.09.2025 3

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Starmer’s ‘racist’ Reform remark is his ‘deplorables’ moment

29.09.2025 60

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The problem with Jess’s Rule

23.09.2025 3

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The no-choice rural restaurant with just two sittings a week

20.09.2025 30

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How I came to (reluctantly) like Trump

17.09.2025 9

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Book smarts / J.K. Rowling is a phenomenal plotter

10.09.2025 10

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A farewell to aspirin

06.09.2025 10

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Autumn / Why September feels like the true new year

02.09.2025 10

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Britain can’t win its fight against Big Pharma

31.08.2025 10

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Patriot / Why the English fly their flag

31.08.2025 10

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Patriot / Why the English fly their flag

30.08.2025 8

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Why the English fly their flag

30.08.2025 9

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Top Gear / Jeremy Clarkson changed my life

18.08.2025 10

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We need more unemployed doctors

06.08.2025 10

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Strikes / I work in the NHS: the government cannot accept doctors’ pay demands

23.07.2025 6

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We should raise, not lower, the voting age

18.07.2025 3

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Body politics / I’ve come to love the nudist beach

15.07.2025 20

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Bitter herbs / Jews are good at almost everything. Apart from food

08.07.2025 10

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Wes Streeting has learnt nothing from the NHS’s past mistakes

04.07.2025 7

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The shame of a middle-aged gym-goer

01.07.2025 10

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The flaw in Wes Streeting’s AI NHS app plan

27.06.2025 4

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Respect thine elders

08.06.2025 10

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NHS ‘spy scales’ won’t tackle childhood obesity

13.05.2025 4

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