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• Gordon Brown changes his tune on nationalism | Brief letters

  15-11-2022 18:57
  Brown’s British jobs | Nurses’ pay | Cheap food for MPs | Market forcesI read with interest Gordon Brown’s article (Nationalism is the ideology of our age. No wonder the world is in crisis, 15 November). He observes the increasing use of nationalistic impulses in world politics and the dangers associated with this. I was wondering if this was the same Gordon Brown whose speech promising “British jobs for British workers” as prime minister in 2007 enabled the far rig
  
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• Health secretary to meet six unions in bid to avert wave of strikes across NHS

  15-11-2022 07:00
  Industrial action to begin within weeks unless deals can be reached on unions’ demands for pay awards well above inflation Unions representing hundreds of thousands of health workers are to meet the health secretary for talks aimed at averting the wave of strikes set to hit the NHS in coming weeks.Steve Barclay on Monday invited six unions to the “round table” at 10 o’clock the following day at the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC), near the Houses of Parliament
  
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• NHS staff ‘petrified’ of how bad winter will be at hospitals in England

  15-11-2022 01:01
  Doctors and nurses fear they will be unable to cope with flu, Covid and cost of living crisis, bosses say Doctors and nurses are “absolutely frightened and petrified” about how bad this winter will be for the NHS in England, hospital bosses have revealed.Staff fear services will not be able to cope with a combination of flu, resurgent Covid, winter and the cost of living crisis damaging people’s health, and also the wave of looming strikes over pay. Continue reading...
  
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