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COVID-19 Pandemic Reveals Devastating Impacts of Tory Austerity on N.H.S.
The UK’s overstretched health service is resorting to desperate measures: millions of planned operations are being postponed and patients are being urgently discharged to help tackle the pandemic.
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Lessons Wealthy Britain Could Learn from Preston’s Worker-Centric Growth
A new economic model is afoot in the Lancashire city where government pumped funds into Preston-based businesses and encouraged the creation of cooperations owned and operated by workers.
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What the U.K. Can Learn from Portugal’s Socialist Government Success Story
Since coming to power three years ago, Portuguese Prime Minister António Costa has dissolved austerity measures like cuts to pensions and salaries – fostering record-breaking economic growth in the process.
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Britain’s Widening Wealth Inequality Demands Sweeping Reform, Report Says
Britain needs to make extensive changes to recover from its economy's failings, rising inequality and the destructive inheritance of the financial crisis, according to a new report.
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Conservatives Make Us Sick: How Relentless Tory Austerity is Wrecking U.K. Healthcare
Hospitals throughout Britain have been operating in chaos in recent weeks, driven by a surge in admissions forcing up to 12-hour delays for patients being treated in emergency wards. A decade of harsh Tory austerity policies are to blame.
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Stopping Europe's Authoritarian Slide Has As Much to Do With Spain As Poland
The Nazis marching on the streets of Poland look similar to the Nazis marching on the Spanish streets calling for "unity." The difference is this: In Spain there is no breakthrough for any anti-European party. Authoritarianism, rather, is coming from the ruling Partido Popular.
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South Manchester Hospital Embodies NHS Success Even As Deep Healthcare Cuts Set In
Stepping Hill Hospital is operating under intense financial pressure – but is still saving lives – as the U.K. government continues to make billions of pounds’ worth of cuts to Britain’s NHS.
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Campus Chill: How Freezing Tuition Became the Latest Move in the Austerity Playbook
At first glance, the appeal of a tuition freeze is obvious: the bills directly benefit students and can be written, passed and enforced in just months. But not everyone is on board, for good reasons.
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England’s Soaring Death Rate Tied to Government Austerity That Slashed Health Services
Last year saw the highest number of deaths in England in nearly half a century – a burgeoning mortality rate now being pinned to government cuts in social services and other austerity measures in one of the richest nations on Earth.
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Doctors Be Damned: Unfair Health Contract Sparks Exodus of UK Medical Professionals
The government's new contract is "a deliberate process to undermine, fragment and cheapen the entire workforce and enable a transition to a U.S.-style, insurance based system – which is less fair and is not cheaper, far from it."
