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 politics.co.uk staff American anger at the release of Lockerbie bomber Abdelbaset al-Megrahi reflects their “culture of vengeance”, the head of the Scottish Roman Catholic Church has said. Cardinal Keith O’Brien’s comments come as the first anniversary of Megrahi’s release approaches. Scottish justice secretary Kenny MacAskill made the decision to free the bomber on compassionate… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff David Cameron invoked patriotic language as he sought to justify the coalition government’s agenda for massive reductions in public spending. The prime minister said ministers had a “duty” to reduce expenditure because of the legacy the Conservatives and Liberal Democrats had been left by Labour. Writing in the Sunday Times, he likened… Read more »
