Legally Healthy

Just as there are still media workers who persuade themselves that the operative word in capitalist journalism is journalism, it appears there are still health workers who delude themselves that the operative word in capitalist healthcare is healthcare. Victims of this warped perspective have signed an open letter to the General Medical Council protesting the suspension of health professionals over convictions for non-violent climate activism. So uncontroversial is the issue that the ludicrous Rowan Williams, whose tenure as Archbishop of Canterbury showed him neither courageous nor principled even by the famously undemanding standards of the Anglican church, was able to summon up sufficient dorsal ossification to place himself among the signatories. Fortunately the minister for natural profiteering has already clarified, in response to concerns raised by the UN special rapporteur, that the law allows for environmental protest and public engagement insofar as such activities are legitimate; which is as much as to say that the law permits what is legally permissible and that what is permissible under law may legally be permitted.