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‘The Right to Protest is Dead. We Need a New Movement to Win it Back’
9 May 2023

This weekend we were faced with a blunt reality. The right to protest in the UK is dying faster than you can say ‘stone of destiny’.

We’ve all seen the pictures now: of peaceful republican protesters arrested and hundreds of placards seized, as the world witnessed the coronation of King Charles III.

First, the Met Police doubled down on their actions. Now, bowing to pressure, they have apologised. Republic’s Chief Executive Graham Smith is right to not accept it as not good enough.

The appointment of a new Met Police commissioner, it seems, has done little to change the culture of the discrimination-riddled, protest-busting institution. Six Republican protesters were arrested barely after Saturday’s demonstration had started. That’s despite the group pledging to be peaceful and civil – as indeed they were. The Met police strategy appears to be “arrest protesters, answer awkward questions later.”

The Met Police first claimed it had acted “proportionately” based on the scale of the event. After all, the eyes of the world were watching.
https://bylinetimes.com/2023/05/09/repu ... n-it-back/
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Poland will be wealthier than Britain by 2030 – it’s time we took notice

7 May 2023 • 6:00am

On a visit to Wrocław a fortnight ago, the zloty dropped: Poland is rapidly becoming the new central European superpower.

When I visited Poland as the Telegraph’s Eastern Europe correspondent in 1989, its cities were drab, decayed and ringed by hideous communist-era buildings. Shops were barren, expectations were low and life was hard.

Yet nowhere else in the Soviet empire did people's power prevail so triumphantly as in Poland. The land of lost causes became the vanguard of liberty — and prosperity.

On its current path, Poland is on track to become wealthier than Britain by 2030 thanks to a post-communist economic miracle. The country has become a hotbed for future-facing industries such as battery manufacturing and tech.

Warsaw is using this economic strength to transform the country into a formidable fighting force to guard against the Russian wolf at the door. Its willingness to stand against Moscow has also won it allies among many neighbouring countries.

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School-leavers could join NHS via apprenticeships in plan to fix staff shortages
Wed 10 May 2023 00.01 BST

School-leavers could receive on-the-job training as part of an attempt to help address NHS workforce shortages, under plans to allow tens of thousands of doctors and nurses to join the health service via apprenticeships.

Up to one in 10 doctors and a third of nurses could be trained through this vocational path in the coming years under the NHS workforce plan, the PA news agency reported. The NHS’s doctor apprenticeship scheme is due to start in September, where medics in training will be able to earn money while they study.

The concept was first introduced as an alternative route into medicine circumventing the standard undergraduate or graduate university programmes.

Dr Latifa Patel, workforce lead for the British Medical Association, said innovative approaches to education and training are welcome but there were huge question marks over how far medical apprenticeships can solve the recruitment crisis.

Patel said: “We don’t know if medical schools and employing organisations are going to be able to produce medical degree programmes to meet individual apprenticeship needs while also meeting the same high standards of training experienced by traditional medical students.
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Lord Frost ‘placed on Conservative candidate list for next election’
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Former Brexit negotiator Lord Frost has reportedly been placed on the Conservative Party’s candidate list for the next general election, effectively kicking off a bid to become an MP.

According to the Telegraph, the Conservative peer is in contention for a safe Tory seat and could possibly replace outgoing MP Pauline Latham as the candidate in Mid Derbyshire.

Lord Frost, a Brexit minister under Boris Johnson, has floated the idea in the past that he could run to become an MP despite his peerage.

If he gained a seat in the Commons, the peer would have to give up his seat in the Lords.
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Keir Starmer says it ‘feels wrong’ EU citizens living in UK can’t vote

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I'm not sure if Starmer is trying to cause a backlash against himself but I feel this will not go down well.
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wjfox wrote: Mon May 15, 2023 4:59 pm
Oh no, did it backfire Smuggy.
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Another triumph of privatisation (not).

Thank you, Mrs. Thatcher!

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Britons face rising water bills for 100 years to fix sewage spills

By Miriam Burrell
6 hours ago

Britons will be paying higher water bills for up to a century to cover the cost of a record £10 billion investment in sewage networks to stop spills.

Water UK chair Ruth Kelly on Thursday said water companies are “sorry” for polluting UK coastlines and waterways and admitted “more should have been done to address the issue of spillages sooner”, as the company unveiled plans for the largest ever investment in sewage networks.

However, it is the British public who will foot the bill through an increase in water rates “over the full lifetime of the asset”, Ms Kelly confirmed.

“Over time, the way the system works is that there will be modest upward pressure on customer bills over the full lifetime of the asset, so over 50 years or perhaps even longer, maybe up to 100 years, customers do contribute,” she told BBC Breakfast on Thursday.

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The Government’s Storm Overflows Discharge Reduction Plan, published in August 2022, aims to eliminate sewage dumping by 2050 while cutting discharges close to “high priority” areas by 75 per cent by 2035 and 100 per cent by 2045.

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Lawmakers warn leaky, crumbling UK Parliament at risk of 'catastrophic' event
Wed, May 17, 2023 at 12:19 AM GMT+1

LONDON (AP) — Britain’s Parliament building is an architectural masterpiece, a UNESCO World Heritage Site visited by 1 million people a year. It’s also a crumbling, leaky, asbestos-riddled building at “real and rising" risk of destruction, lawmakers said Wednesday.

In a hair-raising report, the House of Commons Public Accounts Committee said the seat of British democracy is “leaking, dropping masonry and at constant risk of fire,” as well as riddled with asbestos.

“There is a real and rising risk that a catastrophic event will destroy” the building before long-delayed restoration work is done, the committee said.

In the most urgent in a series of warnings stretching back years, the committee said renewal work had been painfully slow and mostly amounted to “patching up” the 19th-century building, at a cost of about 2 million pounds ($2.5 million) a week.

The committee slammed “years of procrastination” over the building’s future. In 2018, after years of dithering, lawmakers voted to move out by the mid-2020s to allow several years of major repairs. The decision has been questioned ever since by lawmakers who don’t want to leave; last year, the body set up to oversee the Parliament project was scrapped.
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