The Queen has awarded the George Cross, the UK’s highest award for gallantry and heroism, to the NHS to mark its public service over seven decades. Tributes… fine. Awards… fine. Recognition… fine. Clattering pots and pans on Thursday nights, to thank healthcare workers… fine, up to a point. But these displays of gratitude should be in addition to - not instead of - a substantial pay-rise. Boris’s offer of 1%, after everything that’s happened over the last 18 months, is a kick in the teeth.
Licenced today: a detail of the Ruthwell Anglo-Saxon cross, in Ruthwell Kirk, Dumfries & Galloway…
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