Published by The Daily Mail (24th August, 2023) Stephen Brearey, lead consultant in the unit in which Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and tried to kill six more, […]
Aid / India / World
India’s lunar ascent shows absurdity of our dismal aid system
Published by The Times (24th August, 2023) There was jubilation in India after it became the fourth country to successfully send a mission to the moon. The joy […]
Health / Policy
Letby inquiry will be same old story
Published by The i paper (21st August, 2023) A nurse killing newborn babies in a hospital is shocking and unpredictable. Lucy Letby seemed so ordinary, so familiar, so like many more […]
Health / Policy
Public pay the price for corrosive strikes
Published by The i paper (14th August, 2023) There has been little to celebrate in recent political discourse, but one welcome change is belated recognition that the National […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
A grotesque denial of human rights is dragging on
Published by The Times (7th August, 2023) When Franco Basaglia took over a huge asylum in Trieste in 1971, the charismatic psychiatrist found a place that felt like […]
United States / World
The FOREVER prisoners still shackled in Guantanamo 14 years after Obama said it would be shut
Published by The Mail on Sunday (6th August, 2023) On his second day as US President, Barack Obama signed an order directing that the Guantanamo detention camp should […]
Economics / Europe / Russia
Double standards of ‘caring capitalism’
Published by The i paper (31st July, 2023) Ben & Jerry’s is a company that exists to sell vast quantities of highly calorific ice-cream around the world. It […]
China / Covid19 / World
New evidence that Beijing hid truth about Covid origin and possible leak from Wuhan lab
Published by The Mail on Sunday (30th July, 2023) China’s public health authorities cracked the genetic code of the Covid virus five days before the rest of the […]
China / Covid19 / World
The secret messages behind the lab leak cover-up
Published by UnHerd (28th July, 2023) “What happened to Oppenheimer damaged our ability as a society to debate honestly about scientific theory,” wrote Kai Bird, author of the […]
Politics
Starmer needs to change his tune
Published by The i paper (24th July, 2023) Sometimes, the jibes from political opponents sting since they are so close to the bone – and Michael Gove, as […]
United States / World
A new threat to American democracy
Published by The i paper (17th July, 2023) It seems extraordinary that Donald Trump remains the runaway favourite to win the Republican Party nomination for next year’s White […]
Europe / Italy
The mothers having their names erased from their children’s birth certificates — by the state
Published by The Daily Mail (16th July, 2023) The shock news arrived without warning in January: Michela Leidi was being officially cancelled as the mother of her daughter […]