Some specialist hospitals have made stellar consultant appointments from abroad. However, many doctors relocating here are economic migrants.
A colourful, entertaining, and apparently Teflon-coated Deputy Prime Minister falls foul of a change in political culture.
We don’t need a European solution; we need a global solution. We must think independent Anglosphere, not dependent Eurosphere.
Plus: Johnson’s EU speech. Turnbull’s sex ban. Horror in America. Change in South Africa. And: order your popcorn for this weekend’s UKIP conference.
The EAW is based on the flawed presumption of judicial parity between European nations. The UK should forge a new partnership where this is actually the case.
Too often it seems as though our perimeters are seen as a problem to be patched-up rather than an asset to be fully modernised.
In a whole host of countries – Belgium, the Czech Republic, Denmark, Hungary, the Netherlands, Portugal, Switzerland – A&E waiting times are typically under an hour.
That means taking back full control – then using our new-found independence to its greatest possible benefit.
The referendum was at least as much a vote against London as against Brussels – and those whose expert arrogance made them seem to many to be foreigners here.
This competitive virtue-signalling allows mediocre people today to look back on past heroes.
It’s notable that criticism of it, and of nationhood, typically comes from the privileged, within the most economically and politically secure nations.
The gaps it potentially addresses and the interest shown abroad suggests it at least merits consideration here ias a complement to renewable power generation and electric vehicles.
A comparison with its neighbour, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, is stark.
Can we really imagine ministers rejecting Justin Trudeau’s trade deal offer, or one from the American administration, or from Australia and New Zealand?