Colin Leys

After the health bill: The end of the NHS as we know it April 2012
With the health bill passed, the government is now setting about forcing the market into the NHS. Colin Leys looks at what is likely to happen next

This weekend’s NHS vote is the Lib Dems’ last chance March 2012
Colin Leys says party members face a choice – is loyalty to their leaders more important than the future of the health service?

Healthy alternatives July 2011
Colin Leys looks at how Scotland and Wales have rejected marketising the NHS

Making sense of the ‘pause’ in the health bill April 2011
Colin Leys on the proposed changes to the health bill, and how we can use the pause to defend the NHS

Dismantling the NHS October 2010
Stewart Player and Colin Leys expose the reality of the government's plans for the health service

Killing your own creation April 2009
Colin Leys examines how and why Labour is destroying the NHS

Under the knife April 2008
With little public support for private healthcare, the proponents of marketisation are finding new ways to undermine the NHS. Stewart Player and Colin Leys investigate

The great NHS ‘deficits’ con May 2006
With the hospital ‘deficits crisis’ dominating the headlines, amidst claims that increases in NHS funding have been eaten up by pay and other cost increases, Colin Leys continues Red Pepper’s exposure of what is really happening in the health service.

Not safe in their hands March 2006
New Labour is in the process of achieving what Thatcher didn’t dare – the demolition of the National Health Service

Broadcasting mouse March 2004
Colin Leys describes how the Hutton report has left the BBC dangerously exposed to the demands of its corporate and Westminster enemies

Saving broadcasting for democracy February 2004
With the BBC suffering a post-Hutton savaging and Rupert Murdoch, Conrad Black and many in the Labour Party keen to see British broadcasting mimic the monopolistic, right-wing US model, it's time the left leapt to the corporation's defence.