Economy
Ahead of Wednesday’s Budget, the Medical Defence Union (MDU) has issued an open letter to the Chancellor of the Exchequer urging her to take decisive action to tackle the soaring legal costs of clinical negligence claims. In the last year alone, the NHS spent more than £800 million on legal fees relating to clinical negligence… Read more »
The Supreme Court has ruled in favour of a non-religious father and his child that the exclusively Christian teaching of Religious Education (RE) and collective worship in Northern Ireland are ‘indoctrination’. Alongside mandatory Christian collective worship and a ‘stigmatising’ right of withdrawal, this is therefore discriminatory under human rights law. This ruling will have wide-ranging… Read more »
Latest articles
Inflation soared to 9.1 per cent in the UK across May, hitting a new four-decade high. The consumer price index climbed to 9.1 per cent, fresh data from the Office of National Statistics (ONS) shows, up from 9 per cent in April. The Consumer Prices Index including owner occupiers’ housing costs (CPIH) climbed by 7.9… Read more »
Grant Shapps and the Conservatives are trying their hardest to portray the rail strikes as a clash between the travelling and tax-paying public and rail workers. But that’s not how it looks from where I’m sitting. Social media is full of comments such as “I don’t drive. I depend on public transport. Without the trains… Read more »
