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- Transforming general practice: GP providers thinking big
Nuffield Trust Blog (Today) - General practice seems to be considered by politicians and the media as both the cause of and solution to the current crisis in demand for urgent and emergency care.At the same time, the primary care... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Obituary: Lynda Pugh; feminist, socialist, anti nuclear and troops out campaigner, pioneer in women's aid who helped set up the first refuge in Birmingham.
Organised Rage (Today) - Lynda Pugh, who has died of cancer aged 64, was a political and social campaigner who strove to improve the lives of others. She was involved with many different causes and made many friends through... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Still pushing the boat out: The Venice Art Biennale is the wackiest cultural show in the world
Steve Richards (Today) - Remember the paradise island of Tuvalu, the small Commonwealth territory where the Duke and Duchess of Cambridge danced in native costumes during the Jubilee tour last year? Tavalu's entry for the Venice Art Biennale next... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Government accused of using 'anti-GP rhetoric' to mask its own failings
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Jeremy Hunt accused of demoralising GPs and causing fear among patients before speech attacking 'inaccessible' doctorsDoctors' leaders and the health secretary are on a collision course over claims the government is using "anti-GP rhetoric" to... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Join the party!
Open Democracy (Today) - A concession or a ruse to ensure continued authoritarian rule? In the second of two articles examining changes in Russia's electoral architecture, Grigorii Golosov considers the recent relaxation of Russia's party registration rules. Between 2004 and... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- UN Raps Japan For Not Funding Pro-Pyongyang Schools
The Diplomat (Today) - The Japanese government’s failure to provide tuition-wavers for students attending pro-North Korean schools inside Japan “constitutes discrimination,” a UN committee has said in a new report.“The Committee is concerned at the exclusion of Korean schools... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Tell me Sir David who are you going to kill first?
The View From Cullingworth (Today) - ****It seems that (at least according to George Monbiot*) the sainted David Attenborough has been peddling his eugenicist message again:On the Today programme on Wednesday, Sir David Attenborough named the rising human population as the... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The Left vs. The Liberal Media
David Lindsay (Today) - In The American Conservative, Neil Clark writes:It all started in July 2001 when two men, concerned about bias in the corporate news media in the UK, began to send out “media alerts” to a small... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Letters: Paying tax is absolutely a moral issue
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - CBI president Sir Roger Carr's claim that there can be no moral basis to concerns about tax avoidance is a grave misjudgment (Never mind morals, tax is all about the rules, 21 May). A great... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Joining the Cabinet (Part 2)
Lanson Boy (Today) - Yesterday I posted that I had joined Cornwall Council's cabinet. Now I can say what role I have been given within the organisation.My job title is Portfolio Holder for Finance and Resources. Within this role... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Across the ether comes a warning from the past
Matthew Parris £ (Today) - There’s something powerfully strange about broadcasting live, alone in the night. I wonder if piloting an airliner through the high-altitude...... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Same-sex marriage has become a matter of life or death
Alexander Boot (Today) - The death in question is that of Dominique Venner, eminent French writer and historian. After he made the news, bottom of Page 49 or thereabouts, the modifier ‘extreme right-wing’ has been inevitably attached to his... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
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- Who dares to dodge Google's information tax? | McKenzie Wark
Guardian Comment is Free (Politics) (Today) - In exchange for giving up our personal data, we get to watch each other's cat videos, while Google becomes the new stateOf course Google doesn't want to pay its taxes to the British crown, like... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Who dares to dodge Google's information tax? | McKenzie Wark
Politics + Comment (Today) - In exchange for giving up our personal data, we get to watch each other's cat videos, while Google becomes the new stateOf course Google doesn't want to pay its taxes to the British crown, like... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Enrichment
The Anger of a Quiet Man (Today) - There are those who insist that our society has been enriched by mass uncontrolled immigration. A good few of us disagree, we're often called racist/fascist/bigots by those who insist that we're wrong. The problem that... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Wendy Woods obituary
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - "Who do you think you are, Donald Woods?" his wife, Wendy – played by Penelope Wilton in Richard Attenborough's brilliant film Cry Freedom – exclaims at the news that she and their five young children... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Surgeons fear online performance data will damage reputations
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Individual rates to be published for the first time in a move hailed as a 'watershed moment' for the professionThe leader of England's surgeons has warned that the imminent publication of data about individual performance... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- BBC increases pay offer to lowest earners in bid to head off strikes
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Bectu general secretary says £50 hike to pay rise for staff earning less than £60,000 a year is an insultThe BBC has attempted to head off a potential summer of strikes by increasing its annual... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- CH4 Documentary Focuses on Grooming Scandal in Shropshire
British National Party (Today) - By Phil Reddall-The horrific abuse and sexual exploitation of schoolgirls by a group of Asian men in Shropshire – and the problems facing police officers in bringing them to justice without being accused of racism... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- For Norm
Bob from Brockley (Today) - Norman Geras's blog Normblog is, believe it or not, coming up to its tenth birthday. I was heart-broken to read this post, talking about his illness. Norm has been a huge inspiration to me, as well as... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- “SOLDIER” BEHEADED, CHOPPED UP ON STREETS OF LONDON
A Tangled Web (Today) - The capital has been massively culturally enriched this afternoon. A young white man – reportedly a soldier from the nearby Woolwich Barracks – was ran over by two black cultural enrichers, who then chopped him... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Online gambling
Albion Alliance (Today) - The Committee reiterates the points it made previously in its opinion on the Green Paper and regrets that the Commission has taken only some of its conclusions on board. In particular, it points out that... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News› - Google chief rejects Ed Miliband's call for 'responsible capitalism'
The Guardian - Politics (Today) - Eric Schmidt says search giant follows international rules after Labour leader criticised company over tax practicesGoogle executive chairman Eric Schmidt rejected the idea put forward by Labour leader Ed Miliband that the search giant should... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- Austerity measures threatening community resilience in Wales
Joseph Rowntree Foundation (Today) - It will take a co-ordinated response from Government departments and local authorities to tackle poverty in Wales, says Michael Trickey.Galvanising action across Government at all levels and across all sectors to respond to the ‘austerity... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›
- The polling that shows why Labour’s lead is soft
Labour Uncut (Today) - by Atul Hatwal The terms of the debate are shifting within the Labour party. Since the underwhelming local elections, the question is no longer whether the poll lead is soft but why. Just this morning,... ‹Full Article› - ‹Related News›


