Parents revealed perceived oppressive treatment from health, social care, education, and criminal justice professionals. Flamingo Images/Shutterstock Negative experiences of Britain’s immigration system and other key institutions are taking their toll on Black African parents’ trust of and engagement with child welfare services. In the face of historical issues, it’s notContinue Reading
Hilaria Baldwin, wife of actor Alec, has recently been widely accused of faking Spanish heritage in what one reporter called a “decade-long grift where she impersonates a Spanish person”. The press and social media are having a field day – numerous clips have been unearthed in which Baldwin appears toContinue Reading
Since the US presidential election on November 3 2020, Donald Trump’s attempts to overturn the result and deny president-elect Joe Biden his victory have grown ever more desperate. Most recently a recording of a phone call to the secretary of the state of Georgia, Brad Raffensperger, on January 2, hasContinue Reading
Boris Johnson, UK prime minister, has announced a third national lockdown across England. But, once more, he has been accused of adopting a delayed decision strategy, unveiling tough measures weeks after experts suggested he should. Can psychology help us explain what’s going on? Here are three possible explanations for whyContinue Reading
It may come as a surprise that many who fought to save Europe from nazism and fascism in the Spanish civil war and second world war were regarded in their own time as enemy aliens, undesirables, criminals and terrorists – in the words of one of them, Arthur Koestler, “theContinue Reading
oliveromg/Shutterstock Before the pandemic, we were cooking less and less. Research suggests that a decline was underway in home cooking, cooking skills and confidence in a number of countries including the UK to the USA, Canada and Australia. Public health agencies were increasingly promoting cooking from scratch because of itsContinue Reading
China’s first ever civil code came into effect on January 1 2021. Replacing a raft of other laws covering issues from marriage, to inheritance, adoption and property, it has binding authority over all civil disputes. A unified civil code has been on the Chinese Communist Party’s (CCP) political agenda sinceContinue Reading
Kameel4u/Shutterstock.com This year – 2020 – has been shocking. If I try to find a silver lining, I think it might be this – that finally, the need for effective planning to address long-term problems has come under the spotlight around the world. A pandemic planning committee had been scrappedContinue Reading
Recent research has revealed a number of expressions that have entered everyday use since Brexit started. Terms like “Article 50”, “no deal”, “hard border” may now seem just part of life but they were seldom, if ever, used before Brexit. New and interesting phraseological patterns have also arisen around someContinue Reading
Plenty of political spin has already been applied to the post-Brexit UK-EU trade and cooperation agreement. This not only glosses over much of the detail, but it can also be decidedly misleading. For example, Boris Johnson, the UK prime minister, has claimed that “there will be no non-tariff barriers toContinue Reading
