By focusing on the “unique importance” of the first five years of life, she says, it is possible to “create a healthier and happier society for future generations”.
In the article she says she is determined to “shine a light” on the “crucial” early years.
Strike threat | NHS could hire 13,000 nurses for 1pc pay rise The Royal College of Nursing (RCN) has announced members will strike over pay on December 15 and 20, the first time in history.The union, which represents 300,000 nurses, is demanding a 19.2 per cent pay increase, which Steve Barclay, the Health Secretary, has said would cost £10bn a year.Each additional 1 per cent of pay awarded to staff on Agenda for Change NHS contracts would cost £700 million a year, according to figures reported to the NHS Pay Review Body by the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC).
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Rishi Sunak, the Prime Minister, said he has “enormous respect” for nurses but that the pay rise requested by the union is “obviously unaffordable”.
Politics | MPs allegedly ‘touched up’ clerks, Chris Bryant claims
Chris Bryant has claimed that House of Commons clerks were bullied and “touched up” by MPs.The Labour MP has also doubled down on his assertion that MPs were physically manhandled in the division lobbies during a controversial vote on fracking the night before Liz Truss resigned as prime minister.
Trade fears | Stena ferry boss attacks EU over border controls
The EU is complicating post-Brexit trade with its tough approach towards border controls, according to the boss of one of the world’s biggest ferry operators.Niclas Mårtensson, chief executive of Stena Line, cites Brussels’ insistence on checking British passports in a separate queue as an example of bureaucracy on the Continent.
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“The question is more, what will happen with the Republic of Ireland and Northern Ireland; the consequences on the protocol and the Good Friday Agreement.
Cold war | Ukrainians determined to face bleak winter
Nine months after Russia’s invasion, Ukraine is facing what the mayor of Kyiv has predicted will be the nation’s worst winter since the Second World War.Temperatures may fall as low as -20C and months of shelling and missile attacks mean many will meet the bitter cold with patchy heat and light, or inadequate shelter.The Kremlin’s strategy of trying to break Ukrainian resistance by shattering infrastructure has pitched millions of civilians onto a new front line featuring cold, faltering utilities and a battle to keep up winter morale.Mr Putin was “clearly weaponising winter to inflict immense suffering on the Ukrainian people” and “try to freeze the country into submission”, Linda Thomas-Greenfield, the US Ambassador to the UN, said on Thursday.
US politics | Kanye West asks Trump to be his running mate
Kanye West has revealed Donald Trump began screaming at him after the rapper announced he would be competing for the White House in 2024 and asked the former president to be his running mate.West, who now goes by the name Ye, declared his presidential bid on Thursday night with a tweet of his campaign logo and the words ‘Ye 24’. It follows Mr Trump’s own announcement earlier this month that he would be seeking the Republican nomination for the third time.
Camilla Tominey | This is the beginning of the end of Nicola Sturgeon
Seemingly unaware of the irony of championing the democratic will of a minority of Scots, while campaigning to reverse a majority decision by the British people to leave the EU, she accused the UK Government of “democracy denial”. The SNP will launch and mobilise a major campaign in defence of Scottish democracy, she declared, in arguably one of the most self-indulgent displays by a politician in recent memory.
Juliet Samuel | The perils of scientists turning into campaigners
In fact, as our economy becomes more and more specialised and society becomes saturated with advanced technology, the influence of technical experts grows ever greater. Thus, the likelihood of policy errors based on flawed science grows and with it grows the stock of vested interests and people with reputations staked on mistakes. This, in turn, provides a convenient supply of “experts”, often compromised, for use by politicians and bureaucrats.
Simon Clarke | Embracing onshore wind is an economic no-brainer Onshore wind is now among the most popular and cheapest sources of homegrown power. Yet it is almost impossible to build a new onshore wind farm in England. Under current planning rules, the objection of just a single resident can stop development in its tracks, leaving us all paying more for our electricity each month.
Telegraph View | Fundamental NHS reform is now avoidable
There was always something perverse about the lockdown slogan: “Stay Home, Protect the NHS, Save Lives.” The NHS is surely meant to be there to protect us. Yet in the decades since it was founded, the relationship between the nation and its health service has slowly been upended. Instead of the NHS moulding itself to meet the needs of the people, the public has increasingly been required to accommodate the failings of the NHS.
A joint effort of several authors who do find that nobody can keep standing at the side and that “Everyone" must care about what is going on in today’s world.
We are a bunch of people who do not mind that somebody has a totally different idea but is willing to share the ideas with others and to be Active and willing to let others understand how "today’s decisions will influence the future”. Therefore we would love to see many others to "Act today".
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