A National Idea Born in the Darkest of Times There are few institutions in Britain that accompany us for quite so much of the journey through life as the National Health Service. It can be present before we have even drawn our first breath, through antenatal care and maternity services, Continue Reading
The Woman who made the World : Isn’t She Lovely!
The Women Who Made the World Larger From Ada Lovelace and Amy Johnson to Angela Burdett-Coutts, Marie Curie and Rosa Parks, history is filled with women who refused to accept the boundaries of their age History has a habit of remembering kings, generals and presidents. Yet some of its greatest Continue Reading
PRISON REFORM’S WEAKEST LINK: CAN PROBATION CARRY THE WEIGHT OF EARLY RELEASE?
Alex Norris Faces Parliament as Government Tries to Solve a Prison Crisis That Has Moved Beyond the Prison Gates Justice Secretary Alex Norris faces an increasingly difficult political and practical argument over prison reform as the Government attempts to prevent England and Wales running out of usable prison places while Continue Reading
THE GRASS ARENA: WHEN CHESS GAVE JOHN HEALY A WAY OUT
MARK RYLANCE’S EXTRAORDINARY PORTRAIT OF ADDICTION, VIOLENCE AND RECOVERY The Grass Arena is not a film that observes alcoholism from a safe distance. It drags the audience down onto the pavement and leaves it there. Made for BBC television in 1991, directed by Gillies MacKinnon and adapted by Frank Deasy Continue Reading
FERRY DISASTER OFF NORTHERN CYPRUS LEAVES AT LEAST EIGHT DEAD
Search operation continues after Filo Jet overturns near Kyrenia, with 18 people still unaccounted for. A passenger ferry carrying 267 people has capsized and sunk off the northern coast of Cyprus, killing at least eight people and leaving 18 others missing in one of the region’s most serious maritime disasters Continue Reading
NEPAL INTENSIFIES DESPERATE TUNNEL RESCUE AFTER CATASTROPHIC HIMALAYAN FLOODS
Hundreds of hydropower workers remain missing as international rescue teams battle mud, unstable ground and the threat of further flooding. Nepal ita rescue at the feet of the Himalayas. Nepal has intensified one of the most difficult rescue operations in its history as specialist teams attempt to reach hundreds of Continue Reading
