Editor's Choice

In praise of trade offs

BMJ 2005; 330 doi: 10.1136/bmj.330.7498.0-g (Published 28 April 2005)
Cite this as: BMJ 2005;330:0.8

Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment. Please log in or subscribe below.

  1. Jane Smith, deputy editor (jsmith@bmj.com)

    Next week Britain has a general election, and over the past three weeks Nick Timmins has been dissecting the manifestos of the three main UK parties (16 April, p 866; 23 April, p 925; p 981). Although sceptical about manifestos—“a newly landed Martian reading Labour's 1997 manifesto and looking at the NHS today would be entitled to wonder how on earth we got from there to here”—Timmins works hard to find real differences between the parties. So do our three commentators (p 986). Indeed, Keiran Walshe argues that the electorate doesn't have much choice: “If you believe in a …

    Access to the full text of this article requires a subscription or payment

    Subscribe

    Article access

    Article access for 1 day

    Purchase this article for £20 $30 €32*

    The PDF version can be downloaded as your personal record

    * Prices do not include VAT

    Rapid responses

    THIS WEEK'S POLL

    Read related article

    See previous polls

    BMJ most popular