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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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By Peter Wozniak David Cameron has dismissed George W. Bush’s claims that waterboarding terrorist suspects saved lives in the UK. The prime minister distanced himself from the former US president’s comments that conducting the controversial practise of simulating drowning on terrorist suspects such as Khalid Sheikh Mohammed – who was allegedly waterboarded 183 times –… Read more »
See images of today’s violent demonstration in central London, from the good-tempered begins of the protest to its violent end. The day started peacefully, with demonstrators filing past parliament in the afternoon sun. Eventually the crowd swelled around parliament and the police presence was increased. From inside Westminster, politicans, journalists and civil servants peered out… Read more »
