The ‘NHS Long Term Plan’, released in 2019, aims to transform the NHS by 2029. It focuses on digital technology, including the use of the NHS smartphone app as a “digital front […]
NHS Reset for the Big Data Economy (2014-2019) Part 6
NHS Reset for the Big Data Economy (2014-2019) Part 5
Along the lines of ‘Event 201’, Public Health England conducted 11 secret pandemic modelling exercises between 2015 and 2019 to test responses to public health emergencies. These exercises proposed measures such as […]
UK’s Shocking Dependence on Ultra-Processed Food Exposes a Dangerous System
More than half of the calories purchased by UK households are from ultra-processed food. That’s not a simple dietary statistic, but a structural signal: the country’s position at the extreme end of ultra-processed food consumption in Europe […]
NHS Reset for the Big Data Economy (2014-2019) Part 4
The NHS launched “test beds” and trials in 2016 and expanded the programme in 2018 to integrate technology, including algorithms and the Internet of Things, into healthcare. The programme involved partnerships with […]
Iranian IRGC poses a growing threat in the UK
An April 2025 paper describes how the Iranian IRGC poses a growing threat to UK national security, with links to at least 20 foiled terror plots in the UK since 2022. The […]
NHS Reset for the Big Data Economy (2014-2019) Part 3
The UK government has been financing the “impact” market infrastructure since 2011. Social outcomes partnerships or social impact bonds (“SIBs”), known as “pay-for-success contracts” in the US, are emerging as a proposed […]
NHS Reset for the Big Data Economy (2014-2019) Part 2
The Wigan Deal, implemented in 2014, has been hailed as a pioneering approach to deliver public services, focusing on an “assets-based approach” and a “new social relationship” between citizens and government. In […]