With Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at US $ 2.94 trillion (2014), the UK has the fifth largest economy in the world after Germany and Japan. It also suffers from acute income and wealth inequality and, according to Oxfam, who know all about poverty, “one in five [or 20%] of the population live below our official poverty line, meaning that they experience life as a daily struggle.”
The junior doctor contract is supposed to be “cost neutral” but for someone who works part time, it means I will likely never see my salary improve. It means I could not have afforded to have either of my children. It means the female doctors who look up to me so much, will have to choose children or their careers.
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This is yet another unfortunate reminder of the hazardous life of a journalist.The post Former BBC Journalist, UN Investigator Allegedly Hangs Herself in Airport appeared first on The Anti-Media.
In a nation rapidly becoming notorious for its institutionalized cover-ups of pedophilia.The post UK Establishment Seeks Ban on Media Naming Sex Abuse Suspects appeared first on The Anti-Media.
‘Police lie routinely on the stand in courts across the country; when people die at their hands they ‘lose’ the evidence; they collaborate on witness statements, and when caught out they just plead that they ‘misremembered’: Originally published: (Novara Media) Likes(1)Dislikes(0)
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The dreadfully stultified pageantry of the British state has been on full display the last couple of days, all mouldy ermine, fraying gold braid and musty velvet. But forms which evolved as a vibrant display of Imperial might have transmuted into rituals of obeisance, as the nonogenerian Prince Philip stumbles behind the Chinese President along lines of men wearing decaying […]
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His prescient thought and insight was then later demonstrated in his superb analysis of the nascent banking crisis of 2007-8 and the attempt to introduce an austerity-led solution in Britain.
Had Michael’s calls for banking regulation been properly heeded we might have been in a very different place.
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... the 2015 report states that Britain’s freedom of the press has declined yet further, straddled by now by Uruguay and Slovakia and now just 6 points from being classed as ‘partly free’ alongside Kazakhstan.
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100 women and 84 children are turned away from shelter every day.The post A Man Kills a Woman Every 2.8.Days in the UK appeared first on The Anti-Media.
One of the defining features of the corporate media is that Western crimes are ignored or downplayed. The US bombing of a Médecins Sans Frontières hospital in Kunduz, Afghanistan, on the night of October 3, is an archetypal example.
