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Labour slashes support for disabled people to reverse Tory austerity?

March 24, 2025March 23, 2025 By Amber Murphy

The UK Government has proposed a £5 billion cut to disability benefits, the largest on record. The change has been dubbed ‘non-negotiable’ and

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#Health #Latest #US Politics

Explainer: The US Measles Outbreak

March 1, 2025March 1, 2025 By Abby Uffindell

On the 26th February, it was confirmed that confirmed that a child has died of measles in the state of Texas. This is

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#Gender #Health #Latest #Women's rights

Opinion: Wombs for Rent: The History, Legislation, and Ethics of Surrogacy

February 27, 2025May 17, 2025 By Gracie Machell

Surrogacy is an arrangement in which a woman, a surrogate mother, carries a child on behalf of another couple or individual without the

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“Deny, Defend, Depose”: Why there is no sympathy left for CEOs.

December 11, 2024December 10, 2024 By Amber Murphy

The murder of Brian Thompson, United Healthcare CEO on the 4th of December was shocking. Shot in the back and the leg on

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#Gender #Health

Opinion: Breaking Down Birth Control: What Works, What Hurts, and What Needs to Change

December 7, 2024December 7, 2024 By Gracie Machell

Over 150 million women worldwide use hormonal contraception as their preferred method of birth control. Along with preventing pregnancy, hormonal birth control can

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Sir Chris Wormald: New Cabinet Secretary or Covid Conman?

December 4, 2024December 3, 2024 By Amber Murphy

Kier Starmer has appointed Sir Chris Wormald as the new Cabinet Secretary, succeeding Simon Case. Previously the Permanent Secretary of the Department for

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What is Happening in Sudan? Genocide, Famine and War

February 11, 2024February 11, 2024 By Maya Perera

Following the coup d’état of Sudan’s President Omar al-Bashir in April 2019, the influentialsocial movement that aided in doing so gave hope for

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#British #FEATURED #Health #Latest #Politics

Opinion: The NHS, Britain’s Sacred Cow

November 12, 2023November 12, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

In the latest census, a record-low percentage of the British population identified with the nation’s historic religion – Christianity. Some rightly point to

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Opinion: The Ghoulish Nightmare of Canada’s Medical Assistance in Dying

January 23, 2023January 23, 2023 By Daniel Bassett

TW: content discusses suicide and abuse. Suicide is an extremely sensitive issue in all societies and all generations. Many of us will know

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Opinion: Psychedelia and the Return of the Legal High

November 11, 2022November 11, 2022 By Harry Ward

Psychedelic therapy, using LSD, Ketamine and MDMA may be curing depression, PTSD and alcoholism. As a result, it could be made available to

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