ARS NOTORIA

Set up a fully functioning health service free of charge for everyone and fund it properly with a generous tax rate of up to 90% on all high earners - generous to ordinary people, that is. Improve citizens underlying condition. Ban low quality processed foods from sale anywhere. Make sure that only cruelty free animals and animal products are sold for meat, eggs milk and so on. Encourage people to garden in the cities. Give everyone a country plot of land where they can grow an orchard or vegetables. In this way you promote exercise and healthy eating. Fund scientific solutions Invest heavily in universities, especially in the most advanced areas of medical research. Make medicine more affordable. Control the big pharmaceuticals and force them to give the recipes for useful drugs over shorter time periods in order to get cheaper generic, widely available drugs. Provide quality free health education on all aspects of human health and health protection and the prevention of disease

Our television has led a charmed life in recent weeks. Every time a Conservative minister appears behind a lectern emblazoned with “Protect the NHS” it’s a miracle the set isn’t smashed by a flying vase. Abraham Lincoln somehow failed to mention that you can fool most of the people most of the time, but looking at the Tories’ popularity ratings that appears to be the case. Keir Starmer’s less than scintillating opposition could be a factor, but how on earth has a party that has systematically run the NHS into the ground, ignored the 2016 Cygnus Report that warned of our acute unreadiness for a respiratory virus pandemic, and followed such a flawed strategy that we now have the largest number of Covid deaths in Europe, managed to hoodwink so many?The media – with a few noble exceptions – has acted as an uncritical government mouthpiece, repeating misinformation and failing to challenge ministers for a string of failures. We truly deserve better, and regarding the NHS the governme