The decision taken at Lewisham defies all clinical, financial or common sense and is a clear breach of the government's own guidelines on its bitterly opposed reforms. Here's why we should all be worried.
The Government seems to be doing its best to detain and remove as many immigrants as it can. Usman Sheikh, a lawyer specialising in detention cases, asks why.
Corporations have been granted the exclusive right to sue states (states cannot sue corporations) at secretive international tribunals for action deemed to unfairly affect investors' profits.
Updates and news on the Lewisham downgrade and judicial review; potential for NHS campaigning at the Eastleigh by-election; Ken Loach's new film, Spirit of '45, featuring Jacky Davis; talk of an April 1st action, mendacity from Hunt, and Unite derecognised by ambulance service.
In the wake of the Mid-Staffs report on hospital failure, David Owen has written to the Royal Colleges urging them to re-examine their role in securing high professional standards. Have relations with the Department of Health become too close?
Britain's population is growing and ageing, yet funding for the National Health Service has stagnated for the first time since its birth. A large scale shift is needed, moving from cure to prevention, to avert future crisis.
A new report from the health professionals’ campaign group Medact interrogates the notion that 'nuclear deterrence' is an essential component of the UK's defence strategy.
The Freedom of Information Act is an essential tool for the British people to hold authority to account. The Coalition's new proposals will erode its powers, expose the NHS still further and deliver an underhand blow to democracy.
The United Kingdom can certainly hold a referendum about the country's EU membership. But it would be unfair to make Europe wait until 2017. The continent needs to know sooner than that if the British want to leave.
Iranian-born filmmaker Tina Gharavi believes that film is a democratic tool which can be used to counter the misrepresentation of marginalised British identities. She spoke to Agnes Woolley about her feature, I Am Nasrine
Owen's Bill may become an important tool for campaigners and the public in pushing prospective MPs to publicly endorse a democratic health system. It is published in full, below, with explanatory notes.
As the dust settles on David Cameron's speech, what real impact has it had? Despite being met with scepticism throughout Europe, it has above all highlighted the need for an open discussion on the EU in Britain – and how the left has so far failed to address the European question.
