Boots has today emerged as the face of modern capitalism after reports found that it had been charging the NHS extortionate amounts for drugs that were available on the high street for a fraction of the price. According to a Times report the high street chain charged the health service ...
Boots the chemist is charging the National Health Service obscene amounts of money for products that sell for a fraction of the price in-store. A Times investigation has revealed that the high street chain has charged the NHS as much as £1,500 for single pots of moisturiser that others have sold ...
By David Wilson “Illness is neither an indulgence for which people have to pay, nor an offence for which they should be penalised, but a misfortune, the cost of which should be shared by the community” - Aneurin Bevan, founder of the NHS “Capitalism is the astounding belief that the most ...
Steve Baker was forced to formally apologise to the House this morning for entertaining a conspiracy theory put forward by Jacob Rees-Mogg. The Brexit minister said he was sorry for not challenging a damaging claim that Treasury officials are attempting to influence Brexit policy. Mr Baker said on Thursday the ...
The number of British households that consider themselves millionaires has rose by nearly a third in two years as the wealth of the poorest households diminished. A total of 3.6 million households in Britain held wealth of more than £1 million by June 2016, up 29 per cent in two ...
Mike Ashley completed his winter heist of Newcastle United's transfer funds last night, bringing in just three loan signings after a buy-out saga dominated most of the transfer window. The club's infamous owner was under a lot of pressure to spend big in this window with Newcastle lying perilously above ...
@BenGelblum With Britain's police budgets set to lose £700m a year, amid rising crime, and yet more cuts planned for border forces, parliament today heard of the tragic consequences of less money to fight a growing drug-fuelled gang crime epidemic. Knife crime is not being driven by minors and teenagers. ...
A van driver on trial for ploughing into a crowd of Muslims outside Finsbury Park mosque leaving one man dead in a bid to kill as many of them as he could had earlier hoped to kill senior Labour party figures including Jeremy Corbyn, the court heard. Darren Osborne, 48, ...
New official figures include loss of sight, brain damage, loss of consciousness, asphyxia, amputation and even death The number of serious injuries suffered by education workers after violent assaults has shot up by 24% in the past five years, new figures obtained by the GMB show. In 2016/16, 477 assaults ...