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What are the natural capital benefits of shooting?

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 »

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Unsustainable pressure on NHS affecting patient care – MDU says

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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Ted Cantle claims MPs are completely disconnected from voters
MPs living ‘parallel lives’

By Alex Stevenson MPs are as separated from the electorate as the communities in Oldham were before the 2001 race riots, a community cohesion expert has claimed. Ted Cantle, who was tasked with reporting on the Oldham race riots for the government, argued in a comment piece for politics.co.uk that MPs who regarded constituents as… Read more »

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Ted Cantle is executive chair of the Institute of Community Cohesion at Coventry University
Comment: What expenses and race riots have in common

The sense of separation has been growing for some considerable time. MPs are now rarely representative of anyone or anything but their own political class. By Ted Cantle I used the idea of ‘parallel lives’ in the Cantle report to government in 2001 on the race riots in the north of England to illustrate how… Read more »