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What do academy schools, fracking and international trade negotiations have in common? They’re all part of the Conservative Government’s agenda to roll back the ability of the public to question official policy, and to allow business interests to press...

It seems the government has found a way to dissuade GPs from letting patients opt out of having their medical records sold to private firms – the threat of penalties or even an investigation into the way they run their practice. Vox Political...

The planned NHS scheme in which patient’s medical records would be compiled into a national database for research purposes has been postponed, amid concerns that the project was communicated poorly to the public. In this post, we ask democracy...

Speech – New Zealand Government Tony Ryall 22 AUGUST, 2014 Midwinter Dialogues Speech Good afternoon. I’d like to thank you for the invitation to be a part of the Midwinter Dialogues series here at the University of Otago in Christchurch. It has...

The UN Human Rights Committee has just published the Irish Government’s written response to the questions that they were asked in Geneva this week. They did not respond to all of the questions they were asked. They responded to some of the questions...