It was no accident that Tony Soprano’s poisonous mother was named Livia. Her namesake empress, as played by Siân Phillips in that old Roman chestnut “I, Claudius,” can chill the blood 40-odd years later. The real-life Livia Drusilla, later Julia Augusta, is remembered by history as cunning, ruthless, power mad, […]
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It would be a mistake to put power-hungry Matt Hancock in charge of top-down NHS reforms
You will never please some people. For years, Labour has been preaching about the evils of the private sector being allowed to impinge upon the NHS and of the wrongheadedness of the NHS’ internal market. Then, along comes a Tory health secretary who wants to sweep the lot away and […]