Marish/Shutterstock The COVID-19 pandemic has had a negative impact across the entire population, but one group likely to have been disproportionately affected is people with eating disorders. There are an estimated 1.3 million people in the UK living with an eating disorder. Our research has been exploring exactly how theContinue Reading
Shutterstock/ManoejPaateel The great COVID-19 vaccine race is on. Pharmaceutical companies around the world are going head to head, while governments scramble to get priority access to the most promising candidates. But a richest-takes-all approach in the fight against the deadliest pandemic in living memory is bound to be counter productive,Continue Reading
Monkey Business Images/Shutterstock More young people in the UK are reporting mental health problems, and there are also apparent increases in self-harm – particularly among girls and young women. The coronavirus pandemic and resultant lockdown has further added to these worries. School closures across the UK have provided a uniqueContinue Reading
Olga Shparaga reflects on Belarus’ ‘revolution with a female face’ “Our president is Tsikhanouskaya”, reads this banner held by Olga Shparaga at a demonstration outside the Government House in Minsk, Belarus, August 16. Photo (c): Olga Shparaga, used with permission. Despite the government’s hopes, protesters in Belarus aren’t losing hope.Continue Reading
Jolanda Aalbers/Shutterstock The internet is filled with blogs and articles offering advice for parents who are trying to coax children into eating greens. Anyone with kids can relate to stories of mealtimes becoming a succession of attritional confrontations, where you cycle through ineffectual strategies before accepting the reality of theContinue Reading
“He’s following the radical left agenda, take away your guns, destroy your second amendment, no religion, no anything, hurt the Bible, hurt God … He’s against God,” President Donald Trump told supporters during a recent trip to Ohio. Trump was speaking about Joe Biden, the Democrat challenger for the WhiteContinue Reading
“Who decided this was funny?” Screenshot of a scene from an episode of BBC3’s “Famalam” series, titled “Jamaican Countdown”, taken from BBC3’s YouTube channel promoting the show. A skit on BBC3’s Famalam series, which describes itself as a “super sharp sketch show starring black British talent”, has sparked widespread criticismContinue Reading
They’re also washing dishes in public Students raising 3 fingers with their arms tied with white ribbons. Photo and caption by Prachatai English, a content partner of Global Voices. Used with permission. Students across Thailand have been organizing massive protests demanding “an end to the authorities’ harassment of citizens, theContinue Reading
China's campaign from the 1950s to eradicate schistosomiasis, or 'snail fever', has been lauded ever since. US National Library of Medicine In early April, with much of the world under lockdown, China was already celebrating its purported victory in keeping the new coronavirus under control. In an effort to boostContinue Reading
75 percent of presenters, commentators and reporters have an Anglo-Celtic background Seven Sunrise Breakfast show promotion 2016 -video screenshot from YouTube A new report by Media Diversity Australia highlights the dominance of presenters, commentators and reporters of Anglo-Celtic background in national television news and current affairs. Anglo-Celtic people are those ofContinue Reading
