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Collective leadership
Money & Business

Collective leadership

...law, order, lawful orders, and following discipline, and you say it, I'll do it. Actually, there's a huge amount of discretion that sits at the police constable level in policing. That's what sets it aside from so many other organisations, is the powers are invested in the constable, not in the hierarchy of policing. And so only by using collective leadership are we able...
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Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination
Society, Politics & Law

Reacting to Hillary Clinton's nomination

...Law followed, and then a move to Arkansas promoting her husband’s career. Vilified in the White House by the right, undermined for her “improper” policy role as First Lady, critiqued as her husband’s cheating become so very public, ambition questioned when running for the New York Senate seat, boxed in to not question her own vote on Iraq because of gendered...
Protest Banners: Hillsborough
Society, Politics & Law

Protest Banners: Hillsborough

...law. Alongside the exhortation Don’t Buy the Scum is the badge of the South Yorkshire Police – the police force charged with safety and control at Hillsborough stadium on the day of the disaster but which has since been implicated in negligence on the day and attempts to systematically cover up The Truth of its actions as a force. And underneath ‘Don’t Buy the...
Birth of the Welfare State
History & The Arts

Birth of the Welfare State

...Law - the indignities of means-tested payments for those in poverty and the fear among the old and impoverished of ending life in the workhouse. But the Labour government's landslide victory in 1945 (not quite as big as that in the 1997 election) was still very much about creating a new deal for 'the boys back from the front', giving them a sense that their country had...
Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022
Society, Politics & Law

Timeline: Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II: 1926-2022

...have recommended she remain under medical supervision. The Queen remains comfortable and at Balmoral." Her four children, along with her daughters-in-law and Prince William and Prince Harry, travelled to be with her. Her Majesty Queen Elizabeth II's death was announced that evening. She was 96 years old and had celebrated her Platinum Jubilee only a few months earlier....
International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour
Society, Politics & Law

International health service: How the NHS has always relied on overseas labour

...law, doctors within the EEA cannot be discriminated against, but in June 2014 a new English language test was introduced for those trying to obtain the licence to practice in the UK. This led to a reduction in the numbers of doctors obtaining a licence, compared to those who registered. Number of registered and licensed doctors in the UK by primary country of...
“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004
Society, Politics & Law

“We don’t just change nappies – we change lives”: Reflections on the Scottish Nursery Nurses Strike, 2004

...Law A. (eds.) New Labour/Hard Labour - Restructuring and resistance inside the welfare industry, Bristol: Polity Press. UNISON Scotland (2004) ‘Why we are on strike’: UNISON Scotland Nursery Nurses Reasons we are on strike (unison-scotland.org.uk) UNISON Scotland (2014) ‘10th Anniversary of Nursery Nurses’ Victory,’: UNISON Scotland Nursery Nurses
Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum
Society, Politics & Law

Settling Uncertainty? Reflections on the Scottish Independence Referendum

...laws’! The increasing recognition of England as England, as a nation, will of course only help to further loosen the already fraught ties that bind the UK and which also plays directly into the hands of the SNP. Gordon Brown has in recent months repeatedly attacked the Conservatives for the ‘damage’ he says that this is doing to the continuation of the Union. That...