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To the wolves? MPs nervy over Afghanistan retreat

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Jim Murphy: Ruminating on intervention ten years after Iraq

Jim Murphy ‘foreign intervention’ speech in full

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Prince Harry admitted shooting insurgents while on operations in Afghanistan

Prince Harry ‘paid to kill his grandmother’s enemies’

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Time to go home: Afghanistan force numbers to be slashed in 2013

3,800 UK troops in Afghanistan heading home next year

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Philip Davies: A clear understanding of defence and military intelligence is essential to the national political and governmental picture.

Comment: The preventable decline of British defence intelligence

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General Sir David Richards warned about the effect of cuts from the 2010 strategic defence and security review on Britain's global influence.

Military chief turns fire on defence cuts

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Dramatic scenes in Westminster as MP suspended from Commons

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MDU advises doctors on how to prevent a delayed diagnosis in prostate and testicular cancer

Doctors need time to digest the GMC’s more detailed guidance (MDG), says MDU.

The Medical Defence Union (MDU) has expressed concern that doctors will have insufficient time to read and digest the General Medical Council’s (GMC) more detailed guidance (MDG) which has been published today and comes into effect on January 30th 2024, alongside the updated version of its ethical standards Good Medical Practice. The MDGs, cover a… Read more »

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Humanists UK welcomes Ofsted’s call to tackle illegal schools and improve RE

Ofsted has called on the Government to take action on illegal schools. The call came in Ofsted’s latest annual report, published yesterday. The report also highlighted that religious education (RE) provision in English state schools is ‘not fit for purpose’, and that independent faith schools perform very badly in Ofsted inspections. Humanists UK, which has led the… Read more »

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Protesters gathered at Regents Park mosque before heading to the US embassy to protest over the film.

Muslim anti-film protest hits London

The worldwide Muslim protests against a film insulting the Prophet Mohammed reached London yesterday, when up to 1,500 people demonstrated outside the US embassy in Grosvenor Square.

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British lives are no longer in danger - but the impact of the intervention continues to affect Libyans

Was it really worth going into Libya?

After the death of US ambassador Christopher Stevens, the bleak outlook in Libya, Iraq and Afghanistan forces us to ask again: was it really worth it?

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