I feel for wealthy helicopter parents. They’re a maligned demographic. All they want is for their prized possessions, I mean, children, to have the best of everything, at all costs, every single...
I’m disabled but I don’t have a disability. For a long while, I was both disabled and able-bodied at the same time. Does that sound like it doesn’t make any sense? Let me explain. I know that...
“They're talking about tomatoes, aubergines, peppers. But just think about the price of bullets. Think of what the cost is to equip our soldiers to fight terrorists. But you're still talking about...
Half an hour outside of the small dusty town of Damak in eastern Nepal is a tiny bamboo village. This town is almost thirty years old, yet does not exist on Nepali maps. Its name has a number at the...
Having the luxury to have your work separated from your negative actions as an individual, is the one of the many, many, many definitions of “white male privilege”. And one of the prime examples...
Four years ago, three British schoolgirls left the country and made their way to Syria to support the so-called Islamic State (aka IS, ISIS, ISIL, Daesh). Aged just 15, they had each been groomed...
Almost four years ago I moved to London, filled with excitement of living in one of the most electrifying cities in the world. I was eighteen, just starting university and filled to the brim with...
Katie Price, a British celebrity, has made the news this week as she has come out and admitted that she is struggling to care for her disabled son Harvey. As he ages, he is more difficult to deal...
The Royal College of Physicians (RCP) is polling its membership of doctors over their support for assisted suicide. The status of doctors in the UK is currently that they have voted ‘against’ but...
Abortion is in the news in the U.S. this week as two states pass legislation designed to reduce barriers to access for patients who need later abortion. The right is screeching about baby killing,...
