PATIENTS waiting more than 18 months for NHS treatment will be able to go private for free in plans to slash the Covid backlog. Health Secretary Sajid Javid will say today that expanding the “right to choose” will help speed up care as six million languish on waiting lists. TheContinue Reading
Experiencing skin-shade prejudice can impact on a person's self-confidence and their relationships. AS photostudio | Shutterstock The Black Lives Matter movement, and the renewed focus on equality and social justice for black people that has come with it, has brought increasing attention to the issue of colourism. This form ofContinue Reading
Images of gaunt, exhausted faces of people fleeing bombardment and death once again dominate global news. From Mariupol to Irpin, Russian artillery attacks on Ukrainian civilians have kept them trapped in hell. Every day, the Ukrainian president, Volodymyr Zelensky pleads for help. He begs for military support to save hisContinue Reading
A mother and father who engaged in the “savage” abuse of their daughter, “destroyed” her and left her with a catastrophic brain injury, have been jailed for 14 years. Dublin Circuit Criminal Court heard the couple believed the girl was possessed by an evil spirit and that they inflicted “wantonContinue Reading
In many parts of the world, law enforcement uses WhatsApp chats, text messages, and photos from confiscated phones as “evidence” against persecuted groups.Continue Reading
In the 73 years since the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (Nato) was founded, member nations have activated article 4 of its founding treaty only half a dozen times. The latest instance was on February 24, the day Russia invaded Ukraine. Eight Nato members – Bulgaria, the Czech Republic, Estonia, Latvia,Continue Reading
The prevalence of so-called “honour” killings in Pakistan has increasingly been the subject of national debate. The perpetrators are husbands, fathers, sons, brothers, uncles, cousins, and in some cases, strangers hired by the victims’ families. And the reasons they give for their crimes include the women or girls having sexualContinue Reading
The COVID-19 pandemic has been the most serious public health crisis in a century. It resulted in governments taking unprecedented powers to regulate people’s social lives, and undertaking substantial fiscal interventions to cushion the impact on people’s finances and the broader economy. Some have suggested that the experience would beContinue Reading
Updated at 4.30pm Russian president Vladimir Putin said Western sanctions were akin to war on Saturday as his forces pressed on with their assault on Ukraine, where planned civilian evacuations from two besieged cities were called off. Russia and Ukraine traded blame over the failure to provide safe passage to civilians fleeing theContinue Reading
Vladimir Putin’s military aggression against Ukraine is meeting more opposition from Ukrainians than he expected. The Russian president also saw widespread condemnation of his military’s aggression in Ukraine at the UN General Assembly. But the opposition Putin faces domestically in Russia is also likely giving him cause for alarm. ThereContinue Reading
