Thursday February 16, 2012 at 3:16pm
According to the Telegraph today, there is a growing number of over-50s who struggled to get work after being made redundant. Of the 426,000 older workers unemployed, 189,000 have been without jobs for a year or more and 111,000 for at least two years. This compares with a drop in the total number of people of all age groups in long-term unemployment. Michelle Mitchell, of charity Age UK, has called for direct help to support older workers back into jobs and said employers were missing out ....
Monday February 6, 2012 at 8:39am
Quite an interesting piece in the weekend's Telegraph about one of the key issues of our time.
Mr Justice Hedley said the 29 year-old, who is autistic and has an IQ of 64, lacked the mental capacity to consent to having sex and so made the “very restrictive” order to protect her best interests. He said she had previously engaged in risky behaviour with a number of people because she did not understand she could say no, and that she should be protected from “potentially exploit....