Since publishing yesterday's piece revealing the clandestine review of health policy by John McDonnell, I have had various challenges by email and social media about my sources.

Good stuff.

The documentary source material is from the minutes of a grouping of health campaigners. Two separate individuals sent me the same document. Helpfully, I've since seen that it's on their website.

Ever since Jeremy Corbyn's spectacular victory in the Labour Party's leadership context, his skills as a leader have been in question.

This isn't surprising. Having never held ministerial, shadow, PPS or whipping roles, Mr Corbyn was never very likely to know how anything bigger than a pressure group or a demonstration was run.

The ramifications of the advisory referendum on leaving the EU continue to manifest themselves as an heroic act of political and economic self-harm.

It is wholly clear that the Leave campaigns' leaders have simply no plan whatsoever.

Oops.

After a divisive, and clearly misleading campaign, the UK voted by a small margin to leave the European Union in yesterday's referendum.

This is not good news.

For all Michael Gove's suggested sufficiency of experts, the widely-predicted risks to the UK economy have come true.

"The first day after a death, the new absence
Is always the same; we should be careful of each other,
We should be kind
While there is still time."
Philip Larkin

The killing of Jo Cox MP last week overshadows the political landscape. The personal grief and loss for her family and friends is as evident as it is massive.

Health Policy Insight is nothing if not tirelessly helpful.

With this in mind, readers will benefit from our considerable wealth of experience in attending the NHS Confederation's annual conference, which we have refined into the following etiquette guide for surviving the next few days.

Confed is the Glastonbury for NHS managers, with more deficit one-upsmanship, less trench foot and about the same amount of Dolly Parton.

A note on climate
Manchester is noted for its Mediterranean climate. Sunblock, misting sprays and portable air conditioners are much recommended.

Pyrrhic victories all round in the 'junior' doctors' dispute. The deal on offer, recommended by the BMA, looks like some tweaking of pay rates at the margins (it's still cost-neutral overall). It turns out that, in Churchill's dictum, "it is better to jaw-jaw than to war-war".

Oh, and the BMA have 'won' invitations to sit on some committees. As victories go ...

A significant theme is emerging with recent Conservative Secretaries Of State For Health, talking to the BBC about their job in April.

Tom Stoppard's Indian Ink features an entertaining passage where Indian book reviewer Dilip offers American academic Eldon Pike a take on Indian attitudes to beggars:

I have previously borrowed the words of a doctor of divinity, Hunter S Thompson, to describe health policy silliness: "when the going gets weird, the weird turn pro".

The 'junior' doctors' dispute has long since passed the point of mere workaday weirdness.