Some on the right are using the current NHS crisis to suggest a different health system is required – but how much of this is built on fact?
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This is excellent work from Tortoise Media (for, as they say, slow news)… It is worth listening to the short introduction below – then the link to the database itself is here: A real democratic service which makes for interesting reading – even when you discover that your own MP, like mine, hasn’t really received... Read more
Sweden reneged on its Türkiye NATO vote deal. This should be solvable except the West wants to punish Türkiye and Türkiye isn't up for that.
The party's agenda of closer alignment and the bulldozing of barriers in an increasing range of areas could help Britain escape the Brexit trap, writes Shamik Das
Athens throws a decades-long good relationship with Moscow out the window and opens the door wide to US military and business interests.
Over 130,000 NHS staff vacancies. 65% of junior doctors actively looking to quit, with 4 in 10 already having plans to do so. Record numbers waiting over 12 hours to be seen in A&E. Hundreds of avoidable deaths every week. The health service as we know it has arguably already collapsed. Anti-trade union legalisation is […]
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A guide for local authority Councillors wishing to prevent data discrimination occurring within their Council. Importance of Data Protection & working to eradicate data discrimination In the UK, several laws, including the UK GDPR and 2018 Data Protection Act, address personal data protection. Personal data can include someone’s name, email address, and location. ‘Sensitive’ personal […]
Fresno Pacific University (FPU) has just laid off Nathan Carson, director of the university’s philosophy program and its only full-time (and tenured) philosophy professor, and plans to eliminate the school’s philosophy major and minor programs. An appeal of the decision has been made and is currently being considered by the administration. The decision on the appeal is expected on January 13th. Dr. Carson is asking members of the philosophy profession to support the appeal of the decision to remove Philosophy at Fresno Pacific University. Messages of support can be directed to FPU President André Stephens, FPU by email to FPUPres@fresno.edu. The Philosophy Program at Fresno Pacific has been in place for 47 years, according to Dr. Carson. The cuts, which eliminated not just the sole full-time philosophy professor, but 4% of the university’s total faculty, were intended to help the university administration cope with a multi-million-dollar budget deficit it created. Regarding the cuts, Dr.
The weekly report on new and revised entries at online philosophy resources and new reviews of philosophy books… SEP New: Existentialism by Kevin Aho. Revised: Haecceitism by Sam Cowling. Beardsley’s Aesthetics by Michael Wreen. Democritus by Sylvia Berryman. Bernardino Telesio by Michaela Boenke. Kant’s Account of Reason by Garrath Williams. IEP The Value of Art by Harry Drummond. NDPR A Middle Way: A Non-Fundamental Approach to Many-Body Physics by Robert W. Batterman is reviewed by Jula R.S. Bursten. Wilderness, Morality, and Value by Joshua Duclos is reviewed by Kyle Johannsen. Analytical Essay on the Faculties of the Soul by Charles Bonnet is reviewed by John H. Zammito. 1000-Word Philosophy Arguments: Why Do You Believe What You Believe? by Thomas Metcalf. Project Vox ∅ Recent Philosophy Book Reviews in Non-Academic Media In Praise of Failure by Costica Bradatan is reviewed by Jenifer Szalai at The New York Times. Is St. Thomas’ Aristotelian Philosophy of Nature Obsolete? by Robert C. Koons is reviewed by Edward Feser at Public Discourse. Justice for Animals: Our Collective Responsibility by Martha C.
It means higher prices for patients, more unnecessary surgery, and less access to care for patients on Medicaid or those who are uninsured or underinsured.
How our conception of how a family "should be" is holding us back from improving the lives of working families.
Fashions inspired specifically by *my* life in the 90s.
I have posted this thread on Twitter this morning: I criticised Labour, Keir Starmer and Wes Streeting for their comments on GPs and their financing
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For the second time in two years we have seen the supporters of a far-right president violently object to the democratic removal of that president
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Ever since Donald Trump became president, Democrats have taken to equating the fate of their own party to the fate of American democracy. In a two-party system, the logical conclusion is that this is profoundly undemocratic.
The post It’s My Party and I’ll Conflate If I Want To first appeared on Ted Rall's Rallblog.I am not a fan of the monarchy. That has nothing to do with the people involved, excepting those of them who might think they
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In an age of entitlement, the self-glorification of men like Donald Trump, Scott Morrison and David Warner is a growing problem. read now...I tend not too comment to much on the politics of other countries. One reason is that US coverage of it is too much through the lens of our own issues. The second is that having spent some time living in other countries, I get that The Discourse is always somewhat off. But, ok, wild stuff!