This is why we don’t report
In March of this year, a pregnant woman went to a police station in London to report that she had been kidnapped and raped in Germany for a period of six months. The police sent her to Havens, a...
Category: Europe
The impact of the Budget on the hardest hit
On Wednesday of this week, the grandly titled Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the UK government’s financial plans for the coming year and beyond. With his trademark red leather briefcase in...
Sexual harassment and abuse at Westminster
As a long, long list of men in the film industry accused of sexual harassment and abuse gets ever longer, and Trump seeks to silence his accusers, politicians in London are being put under the...
Is Jared O’Mara being made an example of?
The UK General Election in June of this year turned around with some quite unexpected results. One of these, on the other side of my city, was the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg being beaten...
The disability paradox
Some years ago, I sat on a bench in the city centre and the man sitting next to me looked at me, looked at my walking stick, and said “Get off your arse and get a job”. I told him I had a job. He...
Disabled people and London’s Uber problem
Being disabled or chronically ill can be pretty exhausting. From the moment you wake up, there are battles to fight that non-disabled people don’t take into account. Will the energy it takes to...
In-work poverty at shameful levels in the UK
As a new £10 note comes into circulation today, the Independent reports that, thanks to Brexit, it is “15 percent smaller, and 16 percent less valuable” than its predecessor. Worth just £8.60...
McStrike: UK McDonald’s workers take historic action
People who work in McDonald’s face 10-hour shifts in difficult conditions working in the heat, suffering regular oil burns, standing for long periods of time and dealing with problem...
Estonia’s Craftswomen: Preserving Handicrafts Through Soviet Times
After the Great Patriotic War, when those Estonian artists who had been evacuated to the rear of the country and those who had survived the fascist occupation, united into homogeneous...
Fear and devastation in deadly Spanish attacks in Barcelona and Cambrils
There is something particularly frightening about the people who turn a car or a lorry into a weapon. These are everyday objects that we see and do not generally fear and yet, in moments, they...