"The Shortage of nurses in UK is affecting patient care and threatening lives. Outsiders looking in would rightly be puzzled by the UK government’s policy for planning the largest workforce in the NHS, and the apparent chaos, contradiction and confusion that has characterised the process. Nothing seems to make sense. For ...
Instead of selling off NHS land, the Government should create a People’s Land Bank, and use the land to build genuinely affordable homes The Government’s sale of NHS land is failing to produce affordable homes and is exacerbating the affordability crisis across the UK, according to new research from the ...
Education Minister Anne Milton, who is tipped to replace Jeremy Hunt as Health Secretary, has had her Wikipedia page edited today to remove links to Virgin Care. The page recently read that the MP's husband, Dr Graham Henderson "holds a high level position with Virgin Care". However the record was amended ...
2017 marked the year that the bitcoin finally entered the mainstream. If you’re the kind of early adopter who stays on top of the latest trading technology or the gradual shift away from standard currencies then you’ve been aware of the bitcoin and other digital currencies since they began to ...
By Rupert Read I’m in London, to be with the family at Christmas. Every year, the lights are bigger and brighter. Is this progress? Thinking about the meaning of ‘progress’ is not easy to do in our society. Because it’s hard-wired into the hegemony of capitalist economics and of liberal ...
Jeremy Corbyn’s speech to the United Nations officials at Geneva’s Palais de Nations on Friday is well worth a watch. Whatever you think of the Labour leader’s politics, the speech as he received a peace award for his work over many years was thought-provoking on topics from growing inequality and ...
By Robert Seiler Earlier this month, more than 100 UK millionaires were outed as tax dodgers by the Paradise Papers, which have blown yet another lid off the secret offshore structures where the elite hide their wealth. The list of British investors read like a rollcall of the institutions at the heart of the establishment: ...
David Davis ordered to surrender unedited full Brexit impact reports Brexit Secretary accused of contempt of parliament MPs say contempt could lead to vote of no confidence in Government Reports emerge suggesting Government agrees Brexit divorce bill of up to £49bn with EU Britain to pay Brexit bill for decades ...
An influential group of housing associations have written to the Chancellor, Philip Hammond. They urge him to allow properties to be extended in height, matching the tallest tree or building in the area - without seeking planning approval. The group of housing associations, Placeshapers, Orbit, G15, Place for People and ...