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MDU members have committed to donating £5 from their subscriptions resulting in over £40,000 being given to two charities, Doctors in Distress and the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF) during 2024. Since 2021, the MDU has enabled the Royal Medical Benevolent Fund (RMBF) to support over 500 doctors throughout their medical career, from financial assistance… Read more »

Humanists UK has raised concerns over potentially unintended consequences of measures in the Children’s Wellbeing and Schools Bill that would, if not amended, pave the way for a new generation of 100% religiously selective schools for the first time since 2011. The Bill does not refer to faith school admissions at all and nothing in… Read more »
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Around two million pensioners live in poverty. That is almost twice the population of Birmingham, England’s biggest city after London, or 4 times the population of Edinburgh. Later life poverty is something we all ought to be outraged about and work our hardest to prevent. Not just because it could be us, or our parents…. Read more »

“All political careers end in failure”, as Enoch Powell memorably observed. It still holds true, but these days they’re also ending earlier and earlier — and it seems to be a peculiarly British phenomenon. Humza Yousaf has resigned as Scotland’s first minister aged just 39, meaning his political career is effectively over before his fourth… Read more »









