As more and more horrifying scenes emerge from India, what’s it like to live there and what went wrong? Tannice Hemming talks to Ravi Nair, 55 about the series of costly mistakes that got India to this point. Few of us could have imagined the scenes we’d seen in Italy in 2020 could be repeated…
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It’s almost two weeks since the publication of the controversial Sewell race report. Tannice Hemming dives in to the multiple, rancorous reactions from across the UK. Today, a letter signed by over 100 signatories including The Lord Mayor of Liverpool, Professor Leslie Thomas QC and Windrush National Organisation, encouraged Tony Sewell to “abandon” his controversial…
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Today is International Women’s Day and the theme for this year is “Choose to Challenge”. Someone I hold in the highest possible regard is a most impressive woman, choosing to challenge the conversation around miscarriage against a backdrop of a tiny, but loud minority who seek to silence discussion. As I write, the news…
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With the news that Israel is already rolling out vaccine passports to those who have proffered their arm to a needle containing the Covid-19 vaccine, the issue of vaccine passports rages on in the news here and abroad. Israel’s “green pass” allows its bearer entry to bars, hotels, swimming pools – wherever has the desire…
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A new website vows to tackle what it calls Covid scepticism in whatever form it takes. Run by a team including a psychologist, a Conservative MP and a Superforecaster, Covidfaq.co takes aim at not only the varied (and multiple) dangerous sceptic theories, but also the celebrities who promulgate them online. When is a sceptic not…
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With last month’s news that the UK is now one of the most pro-vaccination countries in the world, what’s behind the hesitancy of some communities and what can be done to tackle this? In December, a study by the Royal Society for Public Health revealed that only 57% of those from a Black, Asian or…
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The ethical and moral implications of falsely linking autism with dietary choices. Dear Peta, It is with great consternation that I discovered the Peta autism billboard advertisement linking Autism with milk is back in the news. Well, social media at least. On January 4th, this tweet was published. You have done this before, in 2014,…
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It’s less than a week before children across England are due to return to school. With the government steadfast in insisting they will all go back, what are teachers feeling about the risk and how will the NHS cope? Swathes of the country are now in tier 4 and many teachers are beginning to feel…
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There are few issues as divisive within the world of parenting as breastfeeding. Whatever your experience of it, it’s a charged subject. Statistics show that the majority of those who intend to have a baby, intend to breastfeed. According to Unicef, the last Infant Feeding survey was done in 2010 and, although those figures are…
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With the news that the UK is the first Western society to approve the Pfizer vaccine, so many people still have big concerns about a vaccine they feel has been rushed through. Are they right to be concerned? Tannice Hemming finds out… Coronavirus has affected us all. Even if we haven’t experienced loss ourselves, it’s…
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