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• It isn’t strikes putting us all at risk – it’s Tory cuts | Letters

  15-01-2023 19:55
  Nick Watts, Sharon Mills and John Robinson on striking healthcare workers and the damage done to the NHS by Conservative neglectKaty Balls writes that Rishi Sunak has taken the view that there is “ample Tory support” for toughing it out against striking workers (The Thatcherites hounding Sunak over strikes forget one thing: she picked her battles, 9 January). But it should be remembered that this support exists among Conservatives who spent much of 2022 preoccupied with whether Boris
  
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• Frances Foord obituary

  15-01-2023 15:51
  My friend Frances Foord, who has died aged 72 of ovarian cancer, worked for 26 years in the Gambia as a nurse-midwife for the Dunn Nutrition Unit, based in Keneba village. She also later taught midwifery at the University of the Gambia.Much of Frances’s work was dedicated to promoting women’s equality, including by supporting breastfeeding mothers and campaigning to abolish female genital mutilation (FGM). Continue reading...
  
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• If Rishi Sunak doesn’t drop the macho act, we’re in for a spring of continuing misery | Andrew Rawnsley

  15-01-2023 09:00
  The wave of public sector strikes will only get worse until the government realises that compromise is not a dirty wordAs the legendary political thinker Zsa Zsa Gabor once put it: “Macho does not prove mucho.” Faced with the most disruptive combination of industrial action in essential services in decades, the first instinct of Rishi Sunak and his cabinet was to put on muscle suits, beat their silicone chests and declare that they would tough it out. Ministers refused to come to the
  
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