There's a really good Keith Richards bootleg of him playing piano, doing (All I Have To Do Is) Dream, Apartment Number Nine, The Nearness Of You ... it's truly great.

It's got a great title, too: 'Bad Habits'.

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via the ever-magnificent Hansard.

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Health
The Secretary of State was asked—

PFI Debt (NHS Hospitals)
1. Chris Kelly (Dudley South) (Con):

Health economist Professor Alan Maynard lets the political confections go where they may, exploring real NHS reform and finding good reasons to praise former health secretary Frank Dobson.

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It doesn't get any better for poor old viral-prone Andrew Lansley (saviour, liberator).

He monumentally mishandled an encounter with a protestor outside Downing Street, smirking and failing to engage on a heroic scale.

The debacle was fast-compared on Twitter to this classic extract from BBC TV satire The Thick Of It, where a protestor asks the hapless minister about "cleaning up your own mother's piss".

10 Downing Street preparing for round-table non-summit 20.2.2012 - health reforms.

(None of this really happened. Obviously.)

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Our friend Jayne died today. She was looked after with dignity and respect in critical care at the Whittington, and now the explicit grieving can begin.

There are words, but there aren't the right words.

Goodnight. Goodbye. Sweet dreams. Bon voyage.

We'll miss you, Jayne.

Regular readers of Health Policy Insight will be familiar with our longstanding campaign to see him replace Mr Lansley as Secretary Of State For Health, which has its own Twitter hashtag: #SimonBurns4SOS.

Scandalously, Irwin Brown of the Socialist Health Association has dared to disparage a ‘ten reasons why we need legislation’ piece by The Legendary #SimonBurns4SOS.

PM Cameron: Andrew Lansley and I are “as one”; DPM Clegg: “Andrew Lansley right man for the job”; Baroness Williams: drop Section 3 of Bill
Sub-heading finds itself unable to live up to headlines; exits to join French Foreign Legion

I honestly don’t know how you write down the phonetic sound of uncontrolled, slightly hysterical laughter. It's probably for the best, given recent events.

I doff my hat to Baroness Williams: she keeps a mean poker face.

This article for The Guardian may or may not be trying to fill an inside royal flush; it may or may not be a busted flush.

Time - and Lib Dem peers, who have (thus far) proven very loyal to the Coalition - will tell.

Something about the HSJ / Reform piece by Andrew Lansley (saviour, liberator) published today has been nagging at me.

It's something other than the confused reasoning.

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