tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post2984675315533597942..comments2024-03-29T00:28:38.155+00:00Comments on Nigeness: Ill Fares the Land...Nigehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comBlogger8125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-68068173711091756042012-11-19T21:34:06.337+00:002012-11-19T21:34:06.337+00:00Thank you for some other excellent article. Where ...Thank you for some other excellent article. Where else may anyone get that type of <br />information in such an ideal method of writing? I've a presentation next week, and I am on the look for such information.<br /><i>Also see my webpage</i> > <b><a href="http://www.teadafgasdwwffef.com" rel="nofollow">site here</a></b>Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-53184182620145965332011-08-30T02:08:57.958+01:002011-08-30T02:08:57.958+01:00Like many, I am sure, I read it after seeing the v...Like many, I am sure, I read it after seeing the video of his last lecture. I enjoyed it, bur then I was an MBA student unaccustomed to hearing anyone question whether anything was morally right.Anonymousnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-16903939873617771732011-08-28T14:13:22.704+01:002011-08-28T14:13:22.704+01:00I posted on some pieces he wrote for the New York ...I posted on some pieces he wrote for the New York Review blog. Part-memoir, part-polemic, I'm pretty sure they've appeared in The Memory Chalet in some shape or form.<br /><br />I really enjoyed them despite profoundly disagreeing with much of his argument. I think there's no doubt his heart was in the right place. I think he represented the best of the European social democratic tradition that, in his case, was wrapped up in his East End Jewish upbringing. And, of course, he writes wonderfully.<br /><br />(Follow this link to learn more: http://gawragbag.blogspot.com/2010/08/tony-judt.html).Gareth Williamshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05058241057385364459noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-25958168695178153252011-08-26T12:38:11.794+01:002011-08-26T12:38:11.794+01:00In 1944 the Minister of Health, Henry Willink, (a ...In 1944 the Minister of Health, Henry Willink, (a Conservative) issued a White Paper that in effect committed his party to the introduction of a National Health Service as advocated by Beveridge. But the paper also warned, "there is a certain danger in making personal health the subject of a national service at all. It is the danger of over-organisation."<br /><br />According to David Kynaston in <i>Austerity Britain</i>:<br /><br /><i>One way in which Willink intended to minimise that danger was through combining free, universal access on the one hand with diversity of provision on the other - above all through not nationalising the hospital stock as a whole, maintaining instead a mixture of voluntary and municipally run hospitals.</i><br /><br />Labour initially supported Willink's plan, but in office abandoned it.Sir Watkinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02000106556898498656noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-30284264197018831922011-08-26T11:28:54.784+01:002011-08-26T11:28:54.784+01:00Ah yes Tricia - but 'fairness' is such a s...Ah yes Tricia - but 'fairness' is such a slippery notion, esp once the politicians get their grubby mitts on it. It can be - and has been - used to justify pretty much anything... As for the welfare state, an interesting experiment in counterfactual history is to imagine what wld have happened if Churchill not Attlee had won in 1945. The Tories had well advanced plans on the welfare front but I suspect they might have set up a much less reckless, less fully state-owned model - which might have worked better and lasted longer. Well, we'll never know...Nigehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/13314891387515045404noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-36920790658764824852011-08-26T11:13:13.202+01:002011-08-26T11:13:13.202+01:00Tricia, I see are you channelling the spirit of E...Tricia, I see are you channelling the spirit of Edmund Burke with or without realising it.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-24809538533662992512011-08-26T10:33:47.204+01:002011-08-26T10:33:47.204+01:00Yes - it left me confused but that more because i&...Yes - it left me confused but that more because i'm pretty ignorant about politics and economics. From my perspective it seems that whatever policies and structures we put in place - we are still stuck with our human-ness - a mixing pot of all good and ill- and a tardiness to change if we have to give anything up.Also the fact that we clearly are not born equal! But an attempt at kindness and fairness seems of utmost importance and i remember Judt stressed fairness above all. And a question i keep meaning to ask - we dont consider medicine to have failed - with all its failings - just because people are still sick so why expect the welfare state to work miracles? The welfare state may have failed but i couldnt bear to live in a society that didnt consider poverty and inequality to be of utmost importance - or left people without work or with disablities to starve. im really open to learn of other ideas and ways though.Tricianoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2526736757651414061.post-16598772945216276312011-08-26T09:49:06.312+01:002011-08-26T09:49:06.312+01:00The Memory Chalet is good, Nige, and highlights Ju...The Memory Chalet is good, Nige, and highlights Judt's humane qualities, of which you speak. But yes, his assumptions are, in my mind, entirely the wrong way about.Recusanthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/11446741817585462393noreply@blogger.com