Recent discussions on racism have moved us away from ideas around tolerance and being “not racist” and towards an aim of being “anti-racist”. That’s why it’s absolutely crucial we now tackle the more insidious – and dangerous – racism inherent in the products and technology we use every day. Last month I found myself reading…
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This week is World Breastfeeding Week – a celebration of breastfeeding and a chance to discuss what’s important to breastfeeding parents – as well as understanding what barriers face us when we decide we’d like to breastfeed our child. The theme for this week is “protecting breastfeeding” and the four objectives that make up the…
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Though Gareth Southgate and the FA have strived to restore respect and honour to football, the truth is that it’s far from the beautiful game it could be. The worst of times As many woke up nursing considerable hangovers from the expectation, hope and then crushing disappointment of Sunday’s game, many more were shocked by…
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Labour MP Stella Creasy wants the same maternity rights afforded to the rest of the UK child-bearing population in employment – including ministers. The rulings for MPs show the machinations of the rules governing members of parliament are patriarchal and just downright discriminatory. Illegal were they to apply to any other workplace, the lawsuit can’t…
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There’s a shocking amount of resistance towards going electric – but why? There’s nine years left until we reach the government’s proposed 2030 target for the end of new petrol and diesel cars. But with only 1% of cars of the UK’s roads being electric vehicles, there’s a steep hill left to climb and many…
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As another prominent right to die campaigner dies, Tannice Hemming looks at the UK’s attitude towards assisted dying. Noel Conway was 71 when he died last week. Diagnosed with Motor Neurone disease in 2014, when he died he only had the power of movement in his right hand, head and neck. He lost his appeal…
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Changes are coming with how GPs handle your sensitive information but privacy campaigners are uncomfortable with the plans. What’s happening and what do you need to do if you’re unhappy with the idea? You can opt out – should you, and how? Currently, GP data is already shared through the General Practice Extraction Service as…
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What credence is there to the theory that Covid-19 escaped from a laboratory and why has Joe Biden ordered an investigation? Tannice Hemming examines what is already known about the origins of Coronavirus and looks at the evidence behind what some are convinced is just a conspiracy theory. Back in the early days of our…
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It was in the wake of the hunt for Sarah Everard’s killer that I encountered a question that I still struggle to answer. One that I found rather challenging, for reasons I couldn’t quite articulate straight away. “What are you doing to educate your sons not to rape?” What will you do to teach your…
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Next week, EveryDoctor and the Good Law Project will take hold the UK Government to account over their failings on PPE, a case that’s had very little press coverage. Tannice Hemming looks at the story so far. Many of us were simply horrified in the earliest days of the pandemic when we discovered the extent…
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