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 Alice cannet Russia and China have already launched cyber attacks against the UK government, it emerged today. The revelation came in the UK’s first cyber security strategy, published this morning, which found online threats from criminals, terrorists and hostile countries are on the rise. Security minister Lord West confirmed that the UK government had… Read more »
By Alex Stevenson Lord West has been made the government’s new minister in charge of cybersecurity strategy, amid anger from the Tories over the way the appointment was announced. Yesterday the Independent newspaper reported Gordon Brown was set to appoint Britian’s first national cybersecurity chief, prompting an angry point of order from Tory home affairs… Read more »
