UK
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UK Government cover up
Cover ups. Government scandals. Most have been exposed using Freedom of Information laws designed to keep democracy open. But now ministers are plotting to stifle these laws. Freedom of Information exposed the MPs’ expenses crisis. Unless there’s a huge public outcry against the government’s plans, our right to know what they’re up to could be… Continue reading
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medConfidential Bulletin, 17 July 2015: care.data – Are you their guinea-pig?
medConfidential has been asking since last October for this information to be published, so that people can know if they and their family are to be guinea-pigs for ‘care.data round 3’. Some patients may also have questions as to why they have been volunteered in this way – so might some GPs – and we… Continue reading
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Researching health companies: a web search guide By Caroline Molloy and Richard Whittell
How to uncover the facts about the companies involved in NHS privatisation – a joint OurNHS/Corporate Watch guide, and the first in a series of bite-sized OurNHS guides to NHS campaigning. Continue reading
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Child Tax Credits Update
Next week, George Osborne wants to take money away from her two children, and thousands more across the UK. If he gets his way, the UK’s poorest families won’t have the money they need for school uniforms, healthy food, or rent. Continue reading
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Fracking F**ked in Lancashire
MASSIVE news just in – people power has stopped fracking in Lancashire. Local residents, supported by thousands of us from across the UK, persuaded the council to vote down the frackers’ plans. Continue reading
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Child Tax Credit
30,000 of us – and rising – are working together to stop David Cameron taking money away from some of the poorest children in the country. Please will you add your name to the petition against his cuts to child tax credit? Continue reading
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Child Tax Credits: The Cruelest Cut
The government knows their plans to cut child tax credits will push more kids into poverty. So today they’re trying to cover it up – changing the definition of child poverty to hide the effects of their cuts. They’re panicking about official evidence showing that the number of children living in poverty in the UK… Continue reading
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Child Tax Credits: Spare the rich and punish the child
George Osborne is planning to cut support for children living in the poorest families in the UK. If the cut goes ahead, it would take away the special help that gives these children the chance of a happy and healthy childhood. It pays for essentials like healthy food and school uniforms. Continue reading
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Fracking Hell
21 June 2015 — 38 Degrees If you’ve ever wondered what happens when politicians cave in to dirty energy, here’s the answer: Continue reading
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Thousands barred from public spaces; latest council bans; checking the checks; outdoor smoking bans; and more…
18 June 2015 — Manifesto Club BRIEFING DOCUMENT – DISPERSAL POWERS USED AGAINST PROTESTERS AND HOMELESS Our Campaign Against the ASB Act briefing document exposes how police forces are using new powers to bar people from public spaces. Dispersal powers have been invoked at public events including bonfire night and Christmas lights switch-on, and used against… Continue reading
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care.data equals chaos.data
Absent explicit instruction from the Secretary of State, it is now clear that NHS England is just going to keep on making the chaos worse. 16 months after it was “paused”, care.data is resurfacing in a way that gives some insight into the shambolic mess it is still in. Continue reading
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NHS: care.data’s big post-election question
NHS England kept the opt-out problem secret for over a year – even while it was sending out the junk-mail leaflets last January / February, saying the choice existed. Then it hid the problem for another 10 months, before passing the buck to HSCIC last November without even telling them the size of the problem.… Continue reading
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Schools in the UK Are Now Asking Muslim Children to Fill Out “Counter-Extremism” Tests By Ananya Rao-Middleton
It has been described as a ‘counter-extremism’ survey, consisting of undeniably loaded questions aimed at discerning the religious, ethical and even patriotic beliefs of the children taking part. Worse still, it is evident that this survey is undoubtedly intended for Muslim children primarily, who will continue to undergo interrogation of this kind as part of… Continue reading
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Defend the Human Rights Act!
David Cameron wants us to think that everyone agrees with his plan to scrap the Human Rights Act. But only 24% of us actually voted for his government. Unbelievably, he’s trying to abolish the law which gives us the right not to be tortured, the right to a fair trial and the right to an… Continue reading
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Media Lens: Unfree Elections – The Corporate Media, UK General Election And Predictable Outcomes
Imagine this thought experiment. Consider how a general election might turn out if the media spectrum ran the whole gamut from the right – the BBC, Guardian and Independent, for example – to the hard right (the Mail, Sun, Express and so on). Some readers might object that the BBC, Guardian and the Independent are… Continue reading
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David Cameron confidante promotes forced depopulation of Muslims in Europe By Nafeez Ahmed
28 April 2015 — Media Diversified Senior Tory peer and former Times editor, Lord Finkelstein, sits on board of think-tank promoting far-right racism and extremism Lord Daniel Finkelstein, a close confidant of Prime Minister David Cameron and Chancellor of the Exchequer George Osborne, has expressed his pride in providing a platform for racist far-right extremist… Continue reading
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‘The time is here to be seized’ By A. Sivanandan
Neoliberalism is not working. All that stuff, about wealth trickling down, no society only individuals, the market as the regulator of everything, is shown to be false in terms of everyday reality. What Tory ideology has produced on the ground are closures to libraries, youth centres, hospitals, the selling off of whole housing estates, benefit… Continue reading
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Marketing2U – has your health information been sold to direct marketers?
For years, we’ve had credible reports of highly accurate marketing that could only be based on health records. Now reports in the media have revealed “a nice little trade” in your health records – and that’s the Information Commissioner’s description, not ours. Continue reading
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Keep the NHS Free! Sign the Petition
Over 133,000 of us have signed the petition asking all of the main political parties to pledge to keep our NHS free at the point of use. The more of us who sign overnight, the stronger the message: we demand promises from every political party that our NHS will stay free – now and forever. Continue reading
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No to NHS Charges: Sign the Petition!
We’ve just caught a glimpse of the worst case scenario for our NHS. One of Britain’s leading doctors has just said that patients could have to pay for basic medical care after the election. He’s warning that politicians could “destroy the ultimate ethos of the NHS” by introducing fees and charges for NHS services like… Continue reading
The New Dark Age 