New Critisticuffs text: Our NHS

In a bold change from our usual punishing schedule of one text every year or so, here's another new text: Our NHS.

We do not own the NHS, we have no power over it – the NHS is not ours. Rather, we merely depend on it. And, like everybody else, that makes us the object of the calculations of the British State when it asks itself what healthcare needs it finds worth addressing for its population.