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UK Police officer Bill Barker deserves a medal of honour

News 20 11 2009: PC dies helping others as a bridge collapses. Pc Bill Barker, 44, fell into the River Derwent when the bridge he was standing on in Workington collapsed. His wife Hazel said: "How do you put into words how you feel about somebody you are so proud of? Bill was...

opinion by Professor | 1 day ago
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UK - LITIGATION AGAINST SCHOOLS A REAL THREAT?

News 18 11 2009: Litigation against Schools a real threat?. Unveiled in the Queen's Speech was a New Education Bill to which a another New Ombudsman’s position be created as a set of pupil and parent guarantees be launched. But as the Association of School and College...

opinion by Professor | 2 days ago
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UK Election Battlelines – Timing on treating symptoms?

News 18 11 2009: Labour bid to help needy pensioners. With less than seven months before the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />UK must go to the polls, Gordon Brown is to use the Queen's Speech to present a series of populist bills designed to set out the battlelines for...

opinion by Professor | 3 days ago
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UK: Gov expenditure unbounded?

14 11 2009 Bercow spends £45,000 on flat refit. Documents released under the Freedom of Information Act obtained by the Daily Telegraph showed that Mr Bercow’s wife gave detailed instructions on the revamp of the historic apartment beneath Big Ben in the...

opinion by Professor | 1 wk ago
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New worldwide tax on financial transactions?

08 11 2009 Brown red-faced after tax plan snub. Mr Brown floated the possibility of a new tax worldwide on financial transactions only to face an embarrassing rebuff in having it publicly rejected by the <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />United States and other major...

opinion by Professor | 1 wk ago
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BRITAIN – To become a Nation of Shopkeepers?.

03 11 2009 Extra £30bn for bailed out banks. The Treasury has announced the injection of some £25.5 billion into The Royal Bank of <?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />Scotland and some £5.7 billion into The Lloyds Banking Group, this new money being necessary in complying...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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New Labour: The real costs to the Public

00 00 2004 National Offender Management Information System (C-NOMIS) began – at some £<?xml:namespace prefix = st1 />234m. 00 07 2007 Project was two years behind schedule. costs increase to some £690m - no idea what £161m was used for before October 2007. 12 03...

opinion by Professor | 2 wks ago
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Political correctness ignoring science and taxpayers?.

News 31 10 2009 : Home Secretary Alan Johnson sacks drugs adviser. Alan Johnson has come under fire after forcing the Government's chief drugs adviser Professor David Nutt (Chairman of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs (ACMD)) to resign over highlighting a need that...

opinion by Professor | 3 wks ago
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Electorial Voting changes to save money?.

News 30 10 2009: Fury over election voting plan. In the need to cut Public expenditure the Treasury has enlisted help from the Ministry of Justice in identifying where potential savings can be made to slash some £65 million from the cost of running elections. Such...

opinion by Professor | 3 wks ago
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Uk - Careers advice for seven-year-olds

News 26 10 2009: Careers advice for seven-year-olds. Primary school children are to get careers advice from the age of seven under a new scheme to encourage them to develop aspirations early on in life. Under Schools Secretary Ed Balls, primaries will offer career-related...

opinion by Professor | 3 wks ago
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UK - Office of the Public Guardian (OPG)

News 25 10 2009: Secret court seizes some £3.2bn from the elderly. A secret court is seizing the assets of thousands of elderly and mentally impaired people and turning control of their lives over to the State -...

opinion by Professor | 3 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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Deserving British Soldiers.

News 24 10 2009: Soldier blasts leaders over trust. A serving soldier has accused politicians of abusing the trust of the Army and serving soldiers. Lance Corporal Joe Glenton, who is facing a court martial for refusing to return to <?xml:namespace prefix = st1...

opinion by Professor | 4 wks ago
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Whose terrorising who & the need for evidence to protect oneself

As the blame/revenue collection Technologies “kick-in”, perhaps more rigorously given a climate of recession, what protection have you got against authority given its profiling/storage mechanisms as to DNA, finger prints, CCTV footage, lie detectors, phone and e-mail...

opinion by Professor | 4 wks ago
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The end of UK middle class benefits in the UK?

News 22 10 2009: Call to end middle class benefits. A think-tan named “Reform” says payments including maternity pay, child benefit, the winter fuel allowance and TV licences for the elderly could be scrapped to avoid higher taxes. It says that the <?xml:namespace...

opinion by Professor | 4 wks ago
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