Sakhorn/Shutterstock “Ms A”, an 18-year-old woman held on remand in HMP Bronzefield women’s prison in Middlesex, England, gave birth to her first child alone in her cell after her calls for help were ignored. A new report from the prisons and probation ombudsman provides details on Ms A’s case andContinue Reading
Islamic landmark in China: the Dongguan mosque in Xining, the capital of Qinghai province, western China. David Stroup, Author provided In the normally quiet city of Xining, capital of northwest China’s Qinghai province, everyday interactions between the city’s ethnic groups – Han Chinese, Hui Muslim, Tibetans, Turkic Salars and othersContinue Reading
Daniel Gale/Shutterstock Restrictions on foreign travel have had a big impact on British holidaymakers over the last 18 months. In the first quarter of 2021, outbound international flights taken by UK tourists were down 94% compared to the year before, while UK cruise passengers fell from almost 2 million inContinue Reading
Warning: The content below contains details which may be distressing A Cork couple has spoken of the trauma of learning that their baby’s organs were incinerated abroad without their knowledge or consent. An investigation is underway at Cork University Maternity Hospital after it emerged the organs of 18 babies sentContinue Reading
Getting off the bus and walking to the Brighton Centre, the main venue for this year’s Labour conference, it was hard – impossible even – not to ponder on the pathetic fallacy. I’m not referring to a party that won only 202 seats in 2019 fooling itself into thinking itContinue Reading
Many scientists expect that Covid-19 will become an endemic disease. Does that mean accepting some deaths as inevitable?Continue Reading
Over the last ten years, formal childcare in the UK has steadily become unaffordable for most parents. Recent reports on a UK web-based parent survey undertaken this summer by Mumsnet (in partnership with other parenting and campaigning organisations) have honed in on some startling figures. Of the 2,047 respondents MumsnetContinue Reading
The scenes as American and British troops withdrew from Afghanistan were heartbreaking. People desperate to leave the country they love, offering up their children for transportation to a more peaceful country, being crushed to death for a chance at freedom. Those horrific scenes were also visual confirmation of Britain’s waningContinue Reading
Election night in Germany proved inconclusive. There were some clear winners and losers, but not such that we can be sure of the shape of the next German government. The social democratic SPD came out on top, crowning a remarkable turnaround in its fortunes. In 2017, it bagged the worstContinue Reading
Tinnakorn jorruang/Shutterstock The sentencing of Hossam Metwally for poisoning his partner, Kelly Wilson, in a series of “exorcisms” was always likely to attract attention. The former NHS anaesthetist from Grimsby in the east of England has been jailed for 14 and a half years for what a judge described asContinue Reading
