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The Flexible After Fifty report calls for greater flexible working support for people over age 50 to be more active in the workforce

A new report from the 50+ Choices Roundtable shows how businesses, older workers and the wider UK economy would all benefit from employers and government prioritising greater flexibility in the workplace. The Flexible After Fifty report, from the members of the 50+ Choices Roundtable, shows that nearly three quarters (72%) of over-50s are seeking flexible… Read more »

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MDU welcomes GMC apology over historic homophobic laws

Today the GMC has issued a formal apology for taking regulatory action against a number of doctors because they had convictions based on sexuality. The GMC has said it is ‘truly sorry’ for compounding the harm caused by homophobic laws and attitudes, that were in place into the 1980s and beyond. Reacting to the news, Dr Caroline… Read more »

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This semi-confessional tale from a journalist stung by America’s mortgage mayhem is a distinctly sub-prime offering, finds Marcus Dubois. Busted – Life Inside the Great Mortgage Meltdown, by Edmund L. Andrews W.W.Norton, £16.99, pp240 Review by Marcus Dubois Sub-prime. Voted word of the year by the linguists of the American Dialect Society in 2007, this… Read more »

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Analysis: At last, the Iraq inquiry begins

This is not the Iraq inquiry the government wanted. It’s not really what the impatient public were after either. By Alex Stevenson Today Sir John Chilcot has outlined plans for a wide-ranging, largely public investigation into what lessons can be learned from Britain’s involvement in the Iraq war. When Gordon Brown announced plans for the… Read more »