Happy 75th birthday to the National Health Service – but we must fight hard to rescue and revive this vital public service if is to last another 75 years.
The vultures are circling after the Tories imposed the tightest financial strait-jacket in the NHS’s history.
A record 7.4 million were waiting to start treatment by the end April, three years after Covid struck. And there are too few beds, scanners and staff.
Ongoing advances are essential and NHS care has improved beyond all recognition since its 1948 creation by a Labour government. But we must fight to the death to save the fundamental, consistent principle of universal free treatment for all.
The NHS deserves love and money, not shock therapy and charges from those who don’t value socialism in practice.
Off the rails
Closing nearly every station ticket office in England and Wales is another train crash for a privatised rail industry which is at war with its passengers.
Shutting up to 1,000 in the next three years is an act of corporate vandalism.
It will hurt most the passengers who are more elderly, disabled, confused or those seeking advice on what tickets to buy because machines and apps can be unfriendly.
Times change and few would argue that unused offices should stay open – but closing so many will be a privatised disaster.
Willing you on
Adored and loved by millions of Daily Mirror readers and TV viewers, national treasure Fiona Phillips won’t be alone in her battle with Alzheimer’s disease.
Our Fiona will discover the country has her back now she’s bravely gone public and joined trials for a revolutionary new drug to find a cure for this cruel, debilitating condition.
Millions of us are willing you on, Fiona, and we send best wishes from everybody at the Daily Mirror.
