NHS doctors and GPs will push for a whopping 30 per cent pay rise, it was decided today.
Members of the British Medical Association (BMA) have asked their union to lobby ministers for a massive pay hike over the next five years. They believe doctors have been shortchanged by ‘millions’ in real terms since 2008 due to inflation.
Doctors said they were prepared to join ‘picket lines’ to achieve pay restoration and admitted that industrial action was ‘likely’.
Members voted
LONGYEARBYEN, Norway — It was early April, and while the midnight sun had not yet arrived on the remote archipelago of Svalbard, darkness had begun its annual four-month retreat from the world’s northernmost town. On a cold, pristine morning, sled dogs with their thick coats and powerful legs began a howling chorus as they set off into a snowy valley of reindeer, grouse and distressed grandeur.
Svalbard, between mainland Norway and the North Pole, offers one of the world’s most
Thousands of demonstrators in cities across the world took to the streets tonight to call on Vladimir Putin not to invade Ukraine after the U.S. warned the country’s government that Russian troops are ‘ready to go’.
Images showed protesters outside Russian embassies and elsewhere in cities including London, Berlin, Paris, Copenhagen and Tokyo making their voices heard.
Many held placards that mocked and criticised Russia’s president for his aggressive posturing, while many others pleaded for war to be avoided –
In December, Chief Justice John Roberts released his year-end report on the federal judiciary. According to a recent Gallup poll, the Supreme Court has its lowest public-approval rating in history—in part because it is viewed as being overly politicized. President Joe Biden recently established a bipartisan commission to consider reforms to the Court, and members of Congress have introduced legislation that would require Justices to adhere to the same types of ethics standards as other judges. Roberts’s report, however, defiantly
Shirley, die eine Zwillingsschwester Jean hatte, erwarb einen Bachelor-Abschluss der Royal Holloway, University of London, wo sie Latein und Französisch studierte, und einen Master in Lehramt an der Schule.
Sie begann ihre Karriere hauptsächlich als Sprachlehrerin an Schulen und Colleges in den Vereinigten Staaten, Frankreich und Australien und erhielt später einen zweiten Master in französischer Literatur von der University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign. 1971 promovierte sie in Pädagogik an der University of Cincinnati.
Sie begleitete ihren Mann, einen Ingenieur, nach Neu-Delhi,
The governor of New York on Friday declared a state of emergency as COVID transmission reached rates not seen since April 2020, and warned that the troubling new variant of COVID which first emerged in Botswana is ‘coming’.
Earlier on Friday, the US banned flights from eight Southern African countries to try and prevent the mutant strain, Omicron, from arriving.
Kathy Hochul, the governor, said that all non-urgent procedures could be postponed, beginning December 3, if the hospital’s capacity falls
South African medics moved to calm a wave of panic over a new ultra-infectious and vaccine resistant Covid strain today as its arrival in Europe sparked fears of a new Christmas shutdown.
Belgium revealed a case of the Botswana variant – named ‘Omicron’ by the World Health Organization tonight – prompting EU chiefs to call for an ’emergency brake’ on all travel from southern Africa after it was also found in Israel.
The Belgian health ministry said a case of
A simple analysis about the unfolding crisis in Northern Ireland has established itself as settled wisdom among almost all informed observers across Europe, the United States, and even Britain: It’s all London’s fault.
The story is convincing. It was Britain that voted for Brexit despite warnings about the threat it posed to peace in Northern Ireland; Britain that imposed Brexit on Northern Ireland even though the people there voted to remain in the European Union; Britain that chose the hardest
The people who fear the most for the future of American democracy weren’t watching the election returns in Virginia and New Jersey earlier this month for clues about next year’s midterms. These voting-rights advocates didn’t pay much attention to who won mayoral or school-board races. Instead, they’ve spent the past two weeks trying to discern how many Donald Trump loyalists captured control of elections in a pivotal 2024 swing state: Pennsylvania.
Voters across the Keystone State decided who will
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