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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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Michael Howard has launched an attack on the “culture of political correctness” in the UK. In a speech in Stafford, the Conservative leader said that “political correctness has gone mad”. The speech is the latest in a number of high profile Conservative attempts to gain the political initiative by focusing on the “decent, silent, majority”…. Read more »
Today’s GCSE results show a rise in the number of entries and the biggest rise since 1999 in the number of pupils achieving A*- C grades. 59.2 per cent of grades are now at A*- C, 1.1 per cent up from last year. The overall pass rate though has remained stable at 97.6 per cent…. Read more »
