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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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By Ian Dunt The UK drug advisor who was sacked by Alan Johnson has waded into the debate on drugs again by insisting crack is less damaging than alcohol. Professor David Nutt formed the Independent Scientific Committee on Drugs after the home secretary sacked him for saying ecstasy was less dangerous than riding a horse…. Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff Enhanced UK-French military cooperation is expected to be agreed by David Cameron and French president Nicolas Sarkozy tomorrow. The pair will sign a treaty outlining plans to conduct joint training exercises for ground troops and consider cooperating on research projects and military air transport. Britain and France could reportedly share aircraft carriers… Read more »
