22 h. ago Junior doctor who joked on Twitter about gassing 'the Jews' and said videos calling the Holocaust a sham were 'pretty convincing' is let off with a warning

Dr Martin Whyte, who is currently employed by Northumbria Healthcare NHS Foundation Trust as a specialist trainee in paediatrics, has escaped being struck off by the General Medical Council.

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56 h. ago Kemi Badenoch to relaunch exclusive ‘advisory board’ for high

Exclusive: Tory leader has plans to reinstate group that provided top donors with direct access to senior ministersKemi Badenoch is relaunching the Conservative party’s “advisory board” for high-value donors in a different guise, the Guardian has learned.The Tory leader has drawn up plans to reinstate the exclusive group, which provided top donors with regular direct access to senior ministers, according to two people briefed on the plans. Continue reading...

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64 h. ago Patients to receive direct access to specialists in new NHS trial

A shift to remote monitoring could free up 500,000 hospital appointments a year once fully rolled out

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7 d. ago David Beckham saw knighthood chances disappear after controversial emails leaked

David Beckham has had to be patient in waiting to receive a knighthood, but the former England captain reportedly lost out on the chance to be knighted years earlier

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1 week ago From CBS to TikTok, US media are falling to Trump’s allies. This is how democracy crumbles | Owen Jones

We’re watching the Orbánisation of the US – and as in Hungary, control of the media is key to consolidating powerDemocracy may be dying in the US. Whether the patient receives emergency treatment in time will determine whether the condition becomes terminal. Before Donald Trump’s return to the presidency, I warned of “Orbánisation” – in reference to Hungary’s authoritarian leader Viktor Orbán. There, democracy was not extinguished by firing squads or the mass imprisonment of dissidents, but by slow attrition. The electoral system was warped, civil society was targeted and pro-Orbán moguls quietly absorbed the media.Nine months on, and Orbánisation is in full bloom across the Atlantic. Billionaire Larry Ellison, the Oracle co-founder, and his filmmaker son, David, have become blunt instruments in this process. Trump boasts they are “friends of mine – they’re big supporters of mine”. Larry Ellison, second only to Elon Musk as the world’s richest man, has poured tens of millions into R...

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2 w. ago Biology teacher becomes first UK patient to receive ‘gamechanger’ therapy for MS

Multiple sclerosis is a condition that affects the brain and spinal chord

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2 w. ago Teacher becomes first UK patient to receive ‘gamechanger’ therapy for MS

Emily Henders received her CAR T last week at University College London Hospital (UCLH) as part of a global clinical trial

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2 w. ago First NHS liver cancer patient receives pioneering ultrasound treatment

The new treatment works to destroy liver cancer without the need for chemotherapy or radiation

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