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"No one has any faith in the validity of waiting list figures now. The Department [of Health] has been silently complicit on waiting list manipulation."
Dr Evan Harris, spokesman on health for the Liberal Democrat Party, 2003.
Review
"A splendid book. It's a devastating critique of the welfare state. A page-turner, yet also extensively sourced. Demonstrates how attempts to achieve good intentions have led to horrible results -- increasing crime and violence, worsened conditions of the very poor, an extraordinary deterioration in the quality and character of British life.
Milton Friedman, Nobel Prize-winner.
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Before the welfare state
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The Greycoat Hospital
The Greycoat Hospital was once a workhouse. It has since been a hospital and a school. It has a very long welfare history. It has now been taken over by the state. No related posts.
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The Greycoat Hospital
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Education and State
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- Be Awesome: Modern Life for Modern Ladies, by Hadley Freeman – review (SocietyGuardian - news, comment and analysis on the public and voluntary sectors | guardian.co.uk)
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Audio and video
Link to audio of James Bartholomew being questioned on the BBC programme, The Moral MazeBritain's Trillion Pound Horror Story
broadcast on Channel 4, 2010
Does Welfare 'Ruin' Ambition?

