In the Independent On Sunday today, political correspondent Matt Chorley reports that Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg has written to all Lib Dem MPs setting out his five red lines for NHS reform.

Many readers of Health Policy Insight will know the very clever Dr Shane Gordon - a big wheel in the emerging world of commissioning.

Shane and I were having a banter over on Twitter (I'm HPIAndyCowper, say hi if you are there), and Shane suggested that I either "argue change in #nhs is not required (=myopia or dementia?) or for convincing alternative (what?)".

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The third issue, 'The limits of satire meet Dadaist policy - Andrew ‘Transport’ Lansley apologises to the nation for its stupid failure to grasp his genius', is now out.

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Just read Comrade Sir David's latest letter to the troops, which is actually very good in tone. We've slightly forgotten what good in tone feels like, so here is its text in full.

From the Office of Sir David Nicholson KCB CBE
Chief Executive of the NHS in England

TO:
All Chief Executives in NHS Trusts in England
All Chief Executives in NHS Foundation Trusts in England
All Chief Executives in Primary Care Trusts in England
All Chief Executives in Strategic Health Authorities in England

CC:
All Chairs of NHS organisations in England

It's The War Of The Health Policy Pamphlets. Seconds out! Let's get ready to RUMBLE!

Labour lead off with a haymaker called Undermining The NHS: the hidden reality of David Cameron's health reforms.

Its title tells you the name of the game: associate That Nice Mr Cameron personally with the Health And Social Care Bill. Presumably its first draft subtitle was 'Cremating Mr Cameron'?

Today, the Royal College Of Nursing Annual Congress will debate a motion of no confidence in Secretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley.

He will not address the conference, choosing instead to listen to a carefully-screened 'respectful' group of nurses.

In A Streetcar Named Desire, tragic anti-heroine Blanche DuBois memorably exited to the line "I have always depended on the kindness of strangers".

I have seen a vote of confidence in Sectretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley's political future.

The Kings Fund, think-tank par excellence, is advertising his presence on 18 May at their NHS leadership summit.

They obviously don't foresee his Downfall, unlike the makers of this brilliant viral spoof taken from the movie Downfall. "I could do transport".

Truly, he is viral-prone.

NHS North West chief executive Mike Farrar has been appointed as the next chief executive of the NHS Confederation. He will replace acting CE Nigel Edwards later this summer.

It's a good choice. Mike is a smart person who can explain the NHS's shifting landscape clearly and comprehensibly. He's a personable and intelligent man, who will see that the Confederation's job in future is very much not what it was in the past.

There are to be less managers (who will be called "bureaucrats" more often by politicians); and the FT Network wants to go it alone.

Rumour reaches us from the RCN Congress that Secretary Of State For The Time Being Andrew Lansley will only meet 60 nurses who must be "respectful".

Yes, this is part of the 'listening exercise' during the pause.

Words almost fail me, although a few four-letter ones spring to mind.

Atomised respect and traditional respect

Following Our Saviour And Liberator Andrew Lansley's now-infamous 'empty bookcase' appearance on BBC Newsnight, entertaining and special Health Minister Simon Burns has sought to broaden his 'Dale Winton On Valium' appeal to a bibliophile demographic, with this 'look how many books I've got on my bookcase' appearance on BBC News this morning.