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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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A humanitarian pause falls far short of what’s needed to aid civilians in Gaza, and lay the groundwork for talks on a durable and just peace.
Keir Starmer has warned that a ceasefire in Gaza would risk further Hamas violence, following days of internal discontent over the leadership’s stance on the conflict. In a speech this morning, Starmer restated his position as calling for a “humanitarian pause” in the conflict to allow for aid to be delivered to civilians in Gaza…. Read more »
