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Job security is a thing of the past - so millions need a better welfare system | Guy Standing
Skills and Employment Survey , published on Monday? The national survey, carried out every six years, shows that more employees feel insecure than at any time in 20 years; that work is being intensified, with people being asked to do more and work longer; and that for the first time people working in the public sector feel more insecure than those in the private sector.The reasons for this are ...
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Bipolar pregnant woman tells court I’ll kill myself if I’m denied an abortion
A pregnant woman with severe mental health problems told a High Court judge that she would kill herself and her unborn daughter if he did not allow her to have an ...
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Disarray as DPP contradicts new guidance on naming of suspects
Controversial plans to protect the identity of suspects arrested by police were in disarray last night after the Director of Public Prosecutions called for more "wriggle room" to name suspects before they were ...
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Reforms to teachers’ pay ‘will mean bigger class sizes’
Children will face larger class sizes as a result of the plan to let heads award higher pay rises to good teachers, the chief schools inspector has ...
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Boris Johnson The flawed Mayor of London
Boris Johnson's 'recklessness' about pregnancy and the feelings of others when committing 'extramarital adulterous liaisons' raises questions about his fitness for public office. That was the conclusion of an extraordinary judgment by the Appeal Court this week: that his 'reckless' attitude to the women and children involved is a matter of public interest that ...
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Donald Macintyres Sketch If the Tory beast needs red meat call for Chris Grayling
Donald Macintyre writes political sketches for The Independent, having been Jerusalem correspondent since 2004, covering Israel and the Occupied Territories, as well as travelling for the paper to Iraq, Turkey, Jordan, Libya and Egypt. As Political Editor and then Chief Political Commentator, he previously covered the John Major and early Tony Blair era. He has written for the Daily Express, ...
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Carney agrees with King Bank of England not a one-man show
MONTREAL, May 21 (Reuters) - The next head of the Bank of England, Mark Carney, agreed on Tuesday with current Governor Mervyn King that the British central bank could not be run as a one-man ...
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Rightwing Tory rebels call on peers to reject gay marriage bill
House of Lords to reject the bill after 133 Tory MPs, including two cabinet ministers, defied David Cameron to vote against the measure.As a Tory grassroots organisation warned of a "civil war in conservatism", prompted in part by the legislation, more than half of the Conservative parliamentary party voted against the bill after one ministerial aide complained of a "sham ...
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Artists criticise war centenary plan
first world war has been attacked by a group of actors, writers and campaigners including Jude Law and Michael Morpurgo, author of the children's novel War Horse which is set during the conflict.Promising a "truly national commemoration", the prime ...
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Letters Remembering war to promote peace
first world war . Far from being a "war to end all wars" or a "victory for democracy", this was a military disaster and a human catastrophe.We are disturbed, therefore, ...
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Abdel Hakim Belhaj torture case may be heard in secret court
One of the first cases to be heard by the government's new generation of secret courts may be a claim brought by a Libyan dissident who was kidnapped along with his pregnant wife and flown to one ...
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Andy McSmiths Diary Listen children the world really was created in seven days
Andy McSmith is a senior reporter at The Independent. He has vast experience in political journalism and has also appeared on documentaries for BBC Radio ...
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FTSE 100 within sight of all-time high
The London stock market is within sight of its all-time closing high after another surge in share prices on Tuesday.After drifting for much of the day, the FTSE 100 index of Britain's top companies made a late rally to close 48.24 points higher at 6803.87. This marked its best level for more than 13 years and left the index just 130 points below the peak reached on 30 December 1999 at the ...
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Maria Stubbings was killed by one man. The question is who let it happen | Julie Bindel
let down by the police who could have done more to keep her safe, but didn't. Maria Stubbings is dead and, it would seem, not much has changed since I began campaigning on this issue over three decades ago. The statistics are consistent, year after year: on average, two women die each week in England and Wales as a result of domestic violence, a number etched into the minds of those of us ...
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First David Cameron should bring his own tax havens to book | Simon Jenkins
tax havens . Or rather, I can see the point, but not why we tolerate them. They are licensed theft from the exchequer, offshore fiscal Scud aimed directly at the nation's budget. For a decade politicians in Washington, London and elsewhere have railed against them - but done nothing.Years ago I, by mistake, slipped an income tax voucher for March into my folder for April. This delayed ...
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Britains House of Commons votes to legalize gay marriage in England Wales
UK Britain's House of Commons has voted to legalize gay marriage in England and Wales. British MPs approved the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill by 366 votes to 161. The bill will move onto the House of Lords, where it is expected to face opposition.Several Tory MPs spoke out against the bill, which has caused tensions within the party. The Labour and Liberal Democrat leaderships backed ...
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PM under more pressure as 130 Tory MPs oppose gay marriage Bill
David Cameron's leadership came under further pressure tonight as 130 Conservative MPs voted against gay marriage and he was warned that the proposal would now run into fierce opposition in the House of ...
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Take disabled sport seriously urges Baroness Grey-Thompson
Seven months after the Prime Minister gave an emotional speech insisting that the Paralympics had transformed perceptions of the disabled in Britain, a former Paralympian has launched a scathing attack on the Government's approach to sport, insisting that fewer disabled children are competing now than in the early ...
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From swivel-eyed loons to lesbian queens what fresh hell for the Tories | Hadley Freeman
a lesbian queen should gay marriage be legalised. Now, depending on your cultural reference points, the phrase "lesbian queen" will bring to mind a dodgy calypso song you once heard on holiday, a giant yacht ploughing its way majestically through the Indian ocean, or Clare Balding. Honestly, I'd be fine having any of the above as the ruling figure of Great Britain. Seriously, who ...
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Bradley Manning prosecutors seek to prove WikiLeaks suspect aided enemy
Bradley Manning have decided to drop one of 22 counts against him, but are pressing ahead with the most serious accusation, that he "aided the enemy".Military lawyers told Manning's final pre-trial hearing that they would no longer seek to prove the US soldier was guilty of leaking a single state department cable, known as ...
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Hospitals freeze AE targets - because they can’t hit them
Hospitals across Britain have been forced to suspend targets to see accident and emergency patients within four hours because they can no longer cope with demand, doctors and managers have ...
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Karachis king over the water Altaf Hussain of the MQM
From an unassuming office in Edgware, the Pakistani metropolis is ruled by a party Imran Khan accuses of murdering his Movement for Justice colleague Zhara Shahid ...
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Newspaper royal charter plans are bizarre says Liberty director
Shami Chakrabarti , has hit out against politicians and newspaper barons, accusing them of letting down the public over promises to set up a new press watchdog.One of six assessors on ...
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Watch out Watford Here comes the secretive Bilderberg Group
Whether it's the shape-shifting group of reptilian descendants from the constellation Draco who control humanity, or the shadowy cabal of powerful financiers and politicians who covertly run all governments, conspiracy theorists are once again preparing for their annual jamboree of protest against those who really rule the world, this year in the highly secretive destination ...
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No swimming Britain has some of the worst quality bathing water in Europe
Britain has some of the worst quality bathing water in Europe, with six per cent of its beaches and other swimming spots failing to meet the minimum EU ...
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Britain losing interest in leading?
Britain was once the most powerful country in the world, it ran an empire that was the envy of every other colonial power, and gave the world a number of modern institutions that are still widely used today, most notable in the realm of political systems and democratic checks and balances. But Britain today is a shadow of what it once was, some might say it is just another country, nothing special.
Perhaps it’s a little harsh to say there’s nothing special about the UK. The United Kingdom remains an influential country in international politics, especially throughout the Commonwealth, and the capital city, London, is headquarters to some of the world’s biggest companies and home to one of the largest stock exchanges in the world. Read more
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