Education is always a sore point with politicians; so many of them (on all sides to be fair) are privately/grammar/Oxbridge educated. Most of us mere serfs are not, and that only adds to the detachment from our elected members. During today's PMQs Corbyn laid into May for cutting funding to ...
We live increasingly, it seems, in an age of protest. Sales of cardboard and marker pens must surely be at an all-time high, as the public laces up it boots and takes to the streets in favour of, or, more commonly, against any number of causes. Fracking being proposed in ...
A tragic GP who had a "sixth sense" for diagnosing illness has died suddenly after failing to spot he had life-threatening sepsis. Shiv Sekaran, 48, passed away after the immune system attacking infection led his kidneys to fail last Saturday (March 11). His death from sepsis comes just a week ...
In late February, Lord Chancellor Elizabeth Truss announced a significant adjustment to the personal injury claims discount rate, now down to negative 0.75% from 2.5%. The rate has remained unchanged since 2001 despite noticeable changes in the broad market, creating the need to review and update it to be more ...
By Martina Kane, Senior Policy Officer at Alzheimer’s Society We all know that a sticking plaster doesn’t heal a wound. This is why the announcement today of a Green Paper, to sort out long-term funding of social care, could be a much needed ray of hope in what has been a ...
Last week, the inevitable happened. The latest figures released by the Office of National Statistics showed that net migration to the UK now stands at 273,000 for the year to September, a massive drop of almost 50,000 from the previous year. In truth, these results should surprise no one. Given ...
A Freedom of Information request has revealed there has been a massive rise in the number of London’s hungry who have been criminalised and jailed for stealing in order to eat, with the majority of cases pertain to the hungry and homeless taking waste food from supermarket bins. Where will this ...
Former PM Sir John Major didn’t pull any punches when he attacked the current government’s plan for a hard Brexit. Major believes that her pursuit of a quick Brexit at all costs will harm the NHS and working people. Major said “whole communities” could be worse off and could suffer ...
In the early days of Margaret Thatcher’s tenure as Prime Minister a sociological phenomenon dubbed the "Basildon man" came into existence to describe the archetypal Thatcher supporter that had previously been expected to vote Labour. The Basildon Man was at the heart of her political machine, denoting aspirational voters who ...