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The Medical Defence Union (MDU), the UK’s leading medical defence organisation, has launched a new partnership with independent charity Doctors in Distress to provide MDU members with access to health and wellbeing services to support positive mental health. The partnership, launched today (13th November) to coincide with World Kindness Day, focuses on two initiatives. The… Read more »
Humanists UK has welcomed the announcement of a Private Members’ Bill which would disestablish the Church of England and separate church and state. Currently the Church of England is the official state religion of England, and the monarch is both the head of state and the head of the Church of England. The practice of… Read more »
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By politics.co.uk staff Dire warning over the complete collapse of the prison system has been sounded as the UK sinks further into recession, prison experts have warned. “The prison system is at a standstill, an achievement given the budget cuts and ever-worsening overcrowding, but a standstill nonetheless,” Andrew Neilson, head of public affairs and policy… Read more »
A Conservative MP is calling on the information commissioner to overrule government attempts to keep the sites of Titan prisons under wraps. John Baron’s original freedom of information request asking for the sites to be specified was rejected by the government. “Ministers want to buy the land for a Titan prison without even telling local… Read more »
