Why does it take so long for the penny to drop? Three years ago, when we were deep in the Covid crisis, a number of us were saying that the preceding period of austerity had weakened social delivery and harmed the health of many. It had made the NHS almost full of people whose health had been diminished by the cuts that the Cameron/Osborne government had made.
It was evidenced everywhere by the social provision that had been allowed to wither on the vine in
