Promoting the Politics of Courage
Parliament came back on Monday, and there’s much to catch up on after a busy August away from the green benches. Amongst a thousand matters on the ‘to-do’ will be the increasingly frantic behind-the-scenes discussions as Chancellor Reeves prepares for her Autumn Budget. She must still find something to plug the estimated £20-£50 billion […]
Parliament came back on Monday, and there’s much to catch up on after a busy August away from the green benches. Amongst a thousand matters on the ‘to-do’ will be the increasingly frantic behind-the-scenes discussions as Chancellor Reeves prepares for her Autumn Budget. She must still find something to plug the estimated £20-£50 billion black […]
Fewer than 5% of all migrants to the UK arrive in ‘small boats’. Those far-right politicians who seek to divert attention from mainstream issues to stoke fear about this would prefer you not to know that three quarters of these undocumented migrants have their asylum/refugee claim upheld; and that the UK receives a smaller proportion […]
A big shout out for our District Nurse Teams. It was my privilege to visit the Helston area team recently. As the government plans to “shift” patient care and investment “from Hospital to Community”, supporting our community-based NHS staff is essential. However, I was surprised (and disappointed) the Helston Team (of 31 staff) are expected […]
Frontline staff deserve more support, George Responding to today’s CQC report on RCHT, local MP and member of the Commons Health Select Committee, Andrew George, said: “This shouldn’t be interpreted as a criticism of frontline staff. They go the extra mile in extremely difficult and stressful circumstances and work under the most intense pressure to […]
Fewer than 5% of all migrants to the UK arrive in ‘small boats’. Those far-right politicians who seek to divert attention from mainstream issues to stoke fear about this would prefer you not to know that three quarters of these undocumented migrants have their asylum/refugee claim upheld; and that the UK receives a smaller proportion […]
It’s easy to mock hapless Rupert Lowe MP for demanding that Cornish charity rowers be apprehended as illegal migrants, but it’s an inevitable consequence for far-right politicians like him and their many media promoters, who seize opportunities to bang on about small boat migration in everything they see. Though stories, and yet more new government […]
Children with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities (SEND) have been let down. To be fair, the present government inherited an appalling situation. The stories I’ve heard are shocking – of failure, delay and neglect, from families, carers, and educators. They illustrate that our children are being let down by a system that is overstretched and underfunded. We must put this […]
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