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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 »
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Gordon Brown today launched a new campaign to make English the world’s “common language of choice”. To facilitate Britain’s linguistic global dominance, the prime minister has launched an international ‘teach yourself English’ website. Mr Brown said: “In total, two billion people worldwide will be learning English by 2020. But there are millions more on every… Read more »
The Conservatives have called on foreign secretary David Miliband to come before the Commons next week to set out the UK’s position on Kenya and Pakistan. In a letter to Mr Miliband, shadow foreign minister David Lidington has called on the government to ensure urgent action is taken in both countries as violence continues to… Read more »
