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On the weekend I came across this postcard, which I bought in my final year of school, 1990. How apt that I should happen upon it in time to commemorate the month when the Conservatives—to the eager applause of Labour's Alan Milburn and with the baffling and suicidal support of the Liberal Democrats—were finally able to bring their long-term plans to fruition and begin to parcel off the NHS, the free-marketeer's nemesis, to their loyal friends and supporters.

Coincidentally I now live very close to the hospital in the photo, which is why I can vouch that about 12 years ago it was, with wearying predictability, converted into luxury flatlets.