VOTE REMAIN! What's Europe worth to you?
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The price, and value, of EU membership
Let’s start by inverting Oscar Wilde and asking, like every cynic would, not the value of the EU but the price of the EU.
So how much does it cost us? The EU costs every single person in Britain 37p per day. What do we get in return?
We get peace. You’d think that was quite valuable.
We get access to a Single Market with 500 million consumers (worth £90 billion to Britain annually).
We get freedom of movement.
Idris Elba's Keynote speech to Parliament on Diversity in the Media
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Thanks for such a warm welcome. I could almost feel at home…
In fact we’re not far from where I grew up in East London, but as a young man, I never thought I’d come here.
In fact as an older man, I never thought I’d come here. But Oona invited me to speak here today.
Oona King on endometriosis: 'It’s a disability that only appears one week in four'
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When I was stretchered out of the House of Commons in an ambulance, after collapsing on the floor after six hours of earth-shattering pain, one of the attendants whispered, “MPs aren’t allowed to die in the palace.” I remember thinking, although I was a supposedly healthy 32-year-old, “maybe I am actually dying”.
This is what others find hard to understand about endometriosis – it’s not just a “bad period”, it is agonising pain beyond belief. A gynaecologist examining me in A&E said: “I’m not surprised you’re crying, these cramps are the same as the second stage of labour.” It’s hard to feel like you’re in labour each month, yet infertility means you will never give birth.
