More than a century in the past, the 1911 Parliament Act restricted the Home of Lords’ powers underneath risk of a flood of Liberal appointees. The act boldly declared that “it’s meant to substitute for the Home of Lords because it at current exists a Second Chamber constituted on a preferred as an alternative of … Read more
For any authorities considering NHS reform, the 2012 Well being and Social Care Act is a textbook case of what to not do. Regardless of guarantees of “no extra pointless reorganisations”, the Tory well being secretary Andrew Lansley did simply that, abolishing administration tiers and imposing new care commissioning and competitors techniques on reluctant docs. The … Read more
Predictions that this would be the first calendar yr through which the 1.5C warming restrict enshrined within the Paris settlement is surpassed present a stark backdrop to the UN’s twenty ninth local weather convention. This yr – 2024 – has already seen the hottest-ever day and month, and is anticipated by consultants to be the … Read more