Improving the nation's health is a moral imperative in its own right. It is also one of the keys to unlocking the productivity that has eluded the UK since the financial crisis.
The story of RBS is one of arrogance, hubris, and powerful men believing they are above the rules. These are perils that plague us just as much today as they did in 2008.
RUTH SUNDERLAND: The US President has an idiosyncratic grasp of economics, to put it tactfully, but when he declared in, 'If you don't have steel, you don't have a country', he was correct.
Last week, The Mail on Sunday obtained a leaked video in which Health Secretary Wes Streeting mocked charities for the apparent crime of campaigning to improve the lives of patients.
They are not merely tedious, they are damaging confidence, particularly when they add in divisive rhetoric extolling the public sector over private enterprise.
They are not merely tedious, they are damaging confidence, particularly when they add in divisive rhetoric extolling the public sector over private enterprise.
Drink was once as big a part of my Christmas as fir trees and wrapping paper. But this will be my 20th stone-cold sober 25th of December - and it won't be remotely joyless. Let me explain why...