The UK’s most active period of privatisation saw health and safety disasters and fatalities increase dramatically. In recently published research, we identified 27 multifatality disasters between 1979 and 1997 leading to 763 deaths. These figures were the highest compared with three other European countries. During that period, the then primeContinue Reading
Family stock / Shutterstock In his autumn budget statement, Chancellor Jeremy Hunt said that the Conservatives don’t leave debts for the next generation. As such, he vowed to halve government borrowing over the next five years. This promise is key to the government’s justification for austerity, spending cuts and otherContinue Reading
PA Images/Alamy The 2022 men’s World Cup host nation Qatar is known for its human rights abuses relating to women, migrant workers and those from the LGBTQ+ community. Same sex relationships in Qatar are illegal and punishable by up to seven years in prison. As Qatar is hosting one ofContinue Reading
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Updated: 2.30pm Taoiseach Micheál Martin has condemned a serious assault on two gardaí in Dublin in the early hours of Monday morning, describing the incident as “reprehensible”. One garda remains in hospital following the incident in Ballyfermot during which the two officers were assaulted “by a number of people” whileContinue Reading
The recent turmoil in British politics has led much of the political establishment and commentariat to agree on one thing: what the country needs now is competence, the more boring the better. The last thing we need is risky ideas. After the erratic administrations of Boris Johnson and Liz Truss,Continue Reading
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Taoiseach Micheál Martin has said any surviving members of the Spiritan order who allegedly abused pupils at Blackrock College in Dublin should be investigated by An Garda Síochána. Mr Martin said he believed the first resource that should be deployed by the State is a thorough investigation of allegations ofContinue Reading
When I was a teenager, the 1980s felt like a decade of disasters. We watched a terrible human cost being paid live on TV in a series of football-related disasters. I saw bodies stretchered away on advertising hoardings at Hillsborough stadium in Sheffield, the back-and-forth terrace skirmishes at Heysel inContinue Reading
The official inquiry into the 2017 Manchester Arena bombing has reminded us of the devastating impact of this terrorist attack which killed 22 people, injured many more and left families bereft. But to add to their difficulties, a study my team and I conducted for the BBC’s Panorama coverage ofContinue Reading
