Reform UK’s £72 Million Windfall Raises a Bigger Question About Who Pays for British Politics – Record donations follow months of controversy over party funding Reform UK has received an extraordinary £72 million from two cryptocurrency billionaires, transforming the party’s financial position while intensifying the argument over how much influence Continue Reading
Hospital Trust Failed Completely to Protect Babies, Inquiry Finds
Thirlwall report condemns dysfunctional management and delayed safeguarding at Countess of Chester A public inquiry has concluded that the Countess of Chester Hospital NHS Foundation Trust completely failed to protect babies on its neonatal unit, allowing harm to continue for longer than necessary through a combination of dysfunctional management, weak Continue Reading
The NHS: From Cradle to Grave, the British Promise That Endures
A National Idea Born in the Darkest of Times There are few institutions in Britain that accompany us for quite so much of the journey through life as the National Health Service. It can be present before we have even drawn our first breath, through antenatal care and maternity services, Continue Reading
The Woman who made the World : Isn’t She Lovely!
The Women Who Made the World Larger From Ada Lovelace and Amy Johnson to Angela Burdett-Coutts, Marie Curie and Rosa Parks, history is filled with women who refused to accept the boundaries of their age History has a habit of remembering kings, generals and presidents. Yet some of its greatest Continue Reading
PRISON REFORM’S WEAKEST LINK: CAN PROBATION CARRY THE WEIGHT OF EARLY RELEASE?
Alex Norris Faces Parliament as Government Tries to Solve a Prison Crisis That Has Moved Beyond the Prison Gates Justice Secretary Alex Norris faces an increasingly difficult political and practical argument over prison reform as the Government attempts to prevent England and Wales running out of usable prison places while Continue Reading
THE GRASS ARENA: WHEN CHESS GAVE JOHN HEALY A WAY OUT
MARK RYLANCE’S EXTRAORDINARY PORTRAIT OF ADDICTION, VIOLENCE AND RECOVERY The Grass Arena is not a film that observes alcoholism from a safe distance. It drags the audience down onto the pavement and leaves it there. Made for BBC television in 1991, directed by Gillies MacKinnon and adapted by Frank Deasy Continue Reading
