Today (Monday 6 July) Parliament will consider proposed amendments to the Domestic Abuse Bill. One of the proposed amendments—New Clause 29 (NC 29)—has the potential to eradicate the statutory right of […]
Guest writers
Covid-19 highlights the gender imbalance in leadership and the imperative to address it
Even if the spread of covid-19 and the tragic loss of life are brought to an end, the pandemic will sadly continue to have disastrous long-term consequences. The crisis has […]
Agomoni Ganguli-Mitra: The need to unpack vulnerability in a pandemic
As the covid-19 pandemic continues to progress across the world, the concept of vulnerability echoes throughout various social and political discourses. For example, it became clear early on, that older […]
Nisreen Alwan: Let’s equalise our antiracist language
Antiracist language is one way to explicitly consider ethnicity and racism within our institutions, both during the pandemic and beyond […]
Covid-19: the UK’s economic recovery plan must driven by health and environmental protection
On 30 June 2020, the UK prime minister, Boris Johnson, unveiled a “new deal” to start the post-pandemic economic revival. The covid-19 pandemic is proof that the past decade has […]
Covid-19: Social care’s forgotten workers—they matter too
We rightfully celebrate our centenarians and veterans such as Sir Tom Moore. Ironically, we forget that many of these people are cared for, in their homes or in care homes, […]
The place of telemonitoring in covid-19
Thousands of people have been assessed in the community with likely covid-19. To avoid overwhelming hospitals and to prevent infection of staff and other patients, the majority are sent home […]
Devi Sridhar and Adriel Chen: Why Scotland’s slow and steady approach to covid-19 is working
Deaths and new infections from covid-19 are falling to low levels in Scotland. Devi Sridhar and Adriel Chen look at how the country is on course to eliminating the virus […]
De-escalating shielding has left people scared, how can we help them feel safer?
At the beginning of the covid-19 pandemic over two million people in the UK with underlying health conditions were labelled as “clinically extremely vulnerable” and “clinically vulnerable”. For a significant […]
Richard Armitage and Laura B Nellums: Grieving during covid-19
Many people’s experiences of grief may be protracted, intensified, or in need of psychological intervention during this pandemic, say Richard Armitage and Laura B Nellums […]