Stop preaching, start providing
A return to 'Old Labour' socialist principles on equitable distribution of wealth would do more to improve the nation's health than any of the new regime's current preaching on healthy lifestyles. Today's news on the widening of the health-gap between rich and poor (Guardian, BBC News, Express) should shame the government into focusing on policies that reduce poverty and income inequality, rather than pandering to the affluent classes' anxieties about minuscule risks from beef-on-the-bone or moralising about child-maintenance defaulters and unemployed offenders.
