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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 Alastair Campbell “had probably gone over the edge” just before he stepped down during the Hutton Inquiry, Tony Blair has written in his memoir. The description of Mr Campbell’s “craziness” sheds some light on the behaviour of the former communications boss during his war with the BBC and the bad-tempered battle which… Read more »
by Peter Wozniak Nick Clegg has visited flood-hit Pakistan, lamenting the slow global response to the crisis and predicting a long road ahead for the country’s recovery. Describing the scale of the disaster on seeing the devastation in the south of the country, the deputy prime minister said: “I think the sheer scale of this,… Read more »
