Interview with explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes

George Eliot once opined that adventure is not something outside man, but within. If so, the well of intrepidity within Sir Ranulph Fiennes – surely the world’s greatest living explorer – must be as bottomless as the pit of perdition. This summer brings a chance to find out. For the rover has returned to talk […]

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The News Agents on Resonance104.4fm, Episode 17

Lara Pawson discusses her new book ‘In the Name of the People: Angola’s Forgotten Massacre (IB Tauris May 2014). On 27th May 1977, a small demonstration against the MPLA, the ruling party of Angola – led to the slaughter of thousands, if not tens of thousands, of people. These dreadful reprisals are little talked of […]

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NHS funding increase needed as financial crisis looms

  Read the original on Left Foot Forward > The NHS inevitably faces a ruinous financial crisis by 2015/16 unless it receives a significant financial injection, according to a new report from The King’s Fund. With more than a quarter of trusts already in deficit, the report, entitled The NHS productivity challenge: experience from the front line, warns that […]

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1.4 million now on zero hours contracts

Read the original here on Left Foot Forward > Shocking new figures from the Office for National Statistics show that British employers are using about 1.4 million ‘zero-hours’ contracts, far exceeding last years’s estimates of between 250,000 and 1 million. This follows Ed Miliband’s recent pledge to end “exploitative” use of zero hours contracts, characterised […]

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