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After more than a century of collaboration, a merger has been announced between the Rationalist Association, which has published New Humanist magazine since its founding in 1885, and Humanists UK. For 130 years, New Humanist has been a vital platform for award-winning journalism and insightful commentary on science, technology, culture, and politics. As part of… Read more »
Responding to the Prime Minister’s announcement that the government will abolish NHS England, and return the management of the national health service in England to central government, Thomas Reynolds, director of policy and communications at the Medical Defence Union (MDU) said: “Today’s announcement by the Prime Minister that NHS England is to be abolished has… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff One of Ed Miliband’s new shadow ministers has been cautioned by police for tweeting postal vote results before the polls had closed on election day. Kerry McCarthy, who has since been appointed to a junior role in the shadow Cabinet with an economic brief, used Twitter to publish postal voting figures in… Read more »
By Peter Wozniak Ken Clarke has risked awakening the anger of eurosceptic Conservatives by stating Britain would sign to an EU directive aimed at protecting people arrested whilst abroad. The directive itself is relatively uncontroversial. It makes it a requirement for foreign police officers to provide details both written and verbal to British citizens of… Read more »

