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Had an accident playing sport? The Tories want you to pay for your treatment
People in Wales suffering accidents through sporting activity could be subject to an ‘activity tax’ under new Tory proposals. Conservative AM Darren Millar said on a radio phone-in show that individuals putting themselves at high risk through their own choice could be charged by the NHS.
Ireland edges closer to limited, legal abortions
Ireland has begun to tread the path towards legalising abortions in certain strict circumstances. The decision, reached last night by the Irish cabinet, follows the death last year of Savita Halappanavar.
The privatisation of Royal Mail will mean scrapped services and inflated prices
Now the government has announced its intention to privatise Royal Mail, we must face up to the prospect of what the postal service might look like in a few years’ time. If the energy or rail privatisations are anything to go by those prospects are not good.
(Graph) Number of times the word ‘scrounger’ has been used in UK newspapers since 1994
The dichotomy between “shirkers” on the one hand and “strivers” on the other is the backdrop against which the coalition is reforming welfare. Building the narrative, however, relies upon a friendly, nay compliant media.
Sharia councils: unjust, unequal and consequence of failed integration policies
Sharia courts, which are wrongly perceived to be part of a Muslim’s ‘right to religion’, are in actual fact part of the political battle and fight for power by Islamists.
Parents who don’t vaccinate their children with MMR ‘irresponsible’, say 7 in 10 parents
In a sign that the message is starting to get through about the danger of measles, seven out of ten parents believe parents who do not vaccinate their children with MMR are being irresponsible, according to a new ComRes/ITV poll.
With our current prison system, Chris Grayling’s talk of ‘purposeful activity’ is meaningless
Too many prisons act like bad parents. Rather than doing anything productive with those in their care, it’s a lot less effort to simply plonk them in front of the TV to veg out.
Freedom from want is nothing without the freedom from fear
In the last year, across the world, 30 per cent of internet users have faced increased restrictions on accessing content. The Association for Progressive Communications estimates that over 45 states have imposed some kind of online restrictions.
If we don’t believe in freedom of expression for those we despise, we don’t believe in it at all
t is no hardship to support the speech of those whom we agree with. For our democracy to thrive, we need to welcome the “fruitcakes and closet racists”, the jihadists and holocaust deniers to the debate.
ITV has learnt nothing from the MMR/autism scandal
The current measles outbreak is in large part down to parents not getting their children vaccinated in the late nineties/early noughties because of misinformation about a link between the MMR vaccine and autism.
Not everyone has learnt from past mistakes, either.