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Phoenix Insights is a longevity think tank, set up by the UK’s largest long-term savings and retirement business Phoenix Group, with a mission to address the possibilities and challenges that come from longer lives. Phoenix Insights wants to lead fresh debate, prompt national conversations, and inspire the action needed to make better longer lives a… Read more »
Humanists UK – Think for yourself, act for everyone At Humanists UK, we want a tolerant world where rational thinking and kindness prevail. We work to support lasting change for a better society, championing ideas for the one life we have. We do this because we’re humanists, people who shape our own lives in the here… Read more »
The MDU is a not-for-profit, mutual organisation wholly dedicated to our members’ interests. Our team is led and staffed by doctors with real-life experience of the pressures and challenges faced in practice. Since 1885, we have been indemnifying doctors for incidents arising from their clinical care of patients. We are proud of our heritage, but… Read more »
For 100 years, NARPO has provided an important voice for retired police officers across England and Wales, as well as their widows, widowers and former partners. Representing more than 89,000 members, NARPO is one of the largest public sector pensioner organisations in the country. Its aim is to safeguard the rights of members and to promote… Read more »
The animal medicines industry is dedicated to providing safe, effective, quality products for the treatment and welfare of all animals, large or small. The National Office of Animal Health (NOAH) has been representing the companies that research, develop, manufacture and market licensed animal medicines in the UK since 1986. It replaced the Animal Health Register… Read more »
The Bakers, Food and Allied Workers’ Union (BFAWU) is a trade union of workers in the food industry. It was founded in 1847, in Manchester, by a group of Journeymen Bakers. The next year, the organisation began to operate on a national level, and became the Amalgamated Union of Operative Bakers. In 1861 it played a… Read more »
Founded in 1908, The British Association for Shooting and Conservation (BASC), formerly the Wildfowlers’ Association of Great Britain and Ireland (WAGBI), is the largest fieldsports organisation in the UK. It campaigns to protect and promote country shooting and conservation. Country shooting includes live quarry shooting of game, wildfowl and the management of pest species. Today… Read more »
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By Ian Dun The start of London Fashion Week today has been marred by criticism of the fashion industry from various groups. Celebrities gathered around the opening of the event to campaign against sweatshop conditions in the third world. Jo Wood, Jo Brand and Gael Garcia Bernal, who played Che Guevara in biopic ‘The Motorcycle… Read more »
By politics.co.uk staff The two main teaching unions are threatening to boycott Sats in primary schools next year if the government fails to scrap the controversial exams. The National Union of Teachers (NUT) and the National Association of Head Teachers (NAHT) said they have received 10,000 signatures on a petition to scrap the tests. Teachers… Read more »
