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Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
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Tony Blair has confirmed that he will be hosting a conference on the future of the Palestinian Authority in London next year. No date has yet been officially set, but the betting is on Downing Street in the early part of the year, potentially even January. It will be designed to establish a plan to… Read more »
Tony Blair has said that peace in the Middle East depends on a two state solution, and has urged the international community to help the Palestinian Authority become a “proper partner for peace”. He was speaking from Israel, after meeting with the Israeli prime minister Ariel Sharon. This was the latest leg of a whistle-stop… Read more »
