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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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Higher education providers face long-term, systemic, pressures on their financial sustainability and viability, with the proportion of providers with an in-year deficit having increased in every one of the past four years. This has risen from 5 per cent in the 2015 to 2016 academic year, to 32 per cent in 2019-20. Against this backdrop… Read more »
Former prime minister Tony’Blair has said current Labour leader Keir Starmer must “reject wokeism” to succeed at the next general election. His remarks came alongside today’s publication of new research from Deltapoll commissioned by the Tony Blair Institute. He argued that the Labour party ought to have a “commonsensical position on the ‘culture issues’”, without specifying which… Read more »
