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Diego Maradona Dies At 60, Sports Fraternity Reacts With Tributes | Football News
Argentina football legend Diego Maradona died aged 60 on Wednesday, sending the sports fraternity into a state of mourning. Maradona was recently discharged from the hospital after undergoing a surgery for removing a blot clot in his brain. He died due to a heart attack, his spokesman told news agencyContinue Reading
Why local governments will feel aggrieved by this spending review
Reading November’s spending review, local leaders will be left with many questions. They “live to fight another year” perhaps, but uncertainty surrounding local government finances continues. Local authorities will see their core spending power boosted by 4.5% in cash terms over the next year. This avoids disaster, but will meanContinue Reading
Why coronavirus rules should be about more than just stopping transmission
The success or failure of coronavirus regulations is often assessed on whether they affect the rate of transmission in the community, and whether or not people comply with them. But what about the ethics behind the measures? With inevitable and complex value judgments at play, responses to COVID-19 have shownContinue Reading
Coronavirus shows how hard it is for ethnic minority and migrant women to access healthcare
We were told at the beginning of the coronavirus pandemic that the virus did not discriminate. But the truth is that COVID-19 has brought to light the structural inequalities in healthcare that have existed for decades. In the UK, people from an ethnic minority background are more likely to dieContinue Reading
Should COVID-19 vaccines be mandatory? Two experts discuss
hedgehog94/Shutterstock To be properly protective, COVID-19 vaccines need to be given to most people worldwide. Only through widespread vaccination will we reach herd immunity – where enough people are immune to stop the disease from spreading freely. To achieve this, some have suggested vaccines should be made compulsory, though theContinue Reading
With all the focus on coronavirus, let’s not forget the other respiratory viruses
Drazen Zigic/Shutterstock With coronaviruses taking over our news feeds – and lives – you may be fooled into thinking it’s the only virus affecting humans at the moment. But it’s important to remember that there are many viruses, especially respiratory viruses, that regularly infect us. These viruses range from theContinue Reading
Chang’e 5: China launches sample return mission to the Moon – is it winning the new space race?
Assembly of the Chang’e 5 orbiter-return capsule. SHI Xiaodan/wikipedia China has been the only country to land on the Moon for over 40 years – since the Soviet Luna programme. Its recent Chang’e missions (1-4) demonstrated that China could not only orbit and land on the Moon, but also successfullyContinue Reading
Hungry and out of work: what life is like for young British people under COVID-19
PERO studio/Shutterstock.com Leo* is a 22-year-old living in Edinburgh. He was working part-time in hospitality and waiting to begin university when we spoke during the UK’s nationwide lockdown earlier this year. Like many young people, the pandemic had significantly affected Leo financially. Furloughed and unable to access overtime as heContinue Reading
COVID-19: four ways to respond to vaccine sceptics – and maybe even convince them
There are productive ways to talk to people you disagree with. CREATISTA For most of the 20th century, more than 60,000 people died in the US from polio, diphtheria and small pox each year. In 2016, the American death toll from these diseases was zero. Around the globe, two toContinue Reading
Islamophobia in the Labour and Conservative parties: when will this problem be taken seriously?
More than a quarter of Muslim members and supporters of the Labour Party have experienced Islamophobia within the ranks of the party, a report from the Labour Muslim Network (LMN) claims. With some members or supporters being referred to as “terrorists” or “foreigners”, others have been accused of plotting toContinue Reading