Published by The Daily Mail (14th April, 2020) The carnage is horrific as this hideous pandemic carves through care homes across the country, killing hundreds of residents despite […]
China / World
This crisis reveals China’s weaknesses
Published by The i paper (13th April, 2020) Ever since this pandemic started rampaging around the planet, there has been talk of a transformed world. Yet when the […]
China / Covid19 / World
China muzzled its Bat Woman
Published by The Mail on Sunday (12th April, 2020) A Chinese scientist who is the one of the world’s leading experts on coronaviruses was ‘muzzled’ after unravelling the […]
Covid19 / Europe / Health / Policy / Social care / Spain
We need to care for the carers
Published by The i paper (6th April, 2020) With cruel inevitability, coronavirus is ripping its deadly course through care homes. Thirteen residents in Burlington Court, a Glasgow unit […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
The doctor’s dilemma
Published by The i paper (30th March, 2020) The death toll rises each day with the grim predictability of an exponential curve. Medical chiefs say we will do […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy / Politics / Social care
A grave threat to vulnerable people
Published by The i paper (23rd March, 2020) Six years ago I landed in Liberia. My temperature was taken after leaving the plane, then I walked through an […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
How sick we cannot test those people who save us
Published by The Daily Mail (19th March, 2020) The immense scale of this crisis is terrifying to comprehend, not least for those politicians and scientists who find themselves […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
Disabled people and their carers left living in fear
Published by The i paper (16th March, 2020) Eleven years ago, when swine flu rampaged around the planet, Katie Clark and her family were among those to suffer. […]