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The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC) has published its inaugural assessment of the Natural Capital benefits of shooting. Natural Capital can be defined as the sum of financial and social benefits we get from our natural environment. This concept has increasingly shaped both international and national environmental policies and is at the core… Read more »
Responding to a report by the Parliamentary and Health Service Ombudsman into complaints about cancer care, Dr Udvitha Nandasoma, Medical Defence Union (MDU) head of advisory services said: “The report by England’s NHS Ombudsman of outcomes for cancer patients is yet more evidence of the unsustainable pressure on NHS staff. Our members working in the NHS are… 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 »
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 »
