Here's how bad things have become re journalism in Berkshire: A four-year-old boy is found dead with multiple stab wounds. A woman is charged with his murder.
In the magistrates court, zero journalists attend. District Judge (wrongly) orders boy cannot be named.
The next day...
Doctors DON’T have a final salary pension
Doctors DON’T get their exams paid for
Doctors DON’T get overtime
Doctors DON’T get their equipment paid for
Doctors DO pay for their own training
Doctors DO pay for their own stationary
Doctors DO earn less now than 2008 in real terms
It is one of the major scandals of the last 15 years. A systemic Frankenstein of austerity and the collapse of social housing delivery. One of the greatest transfers of public funds into private hands for nothing but a policy failure.