Briefing: what’s behind the junior doctors’ strike?
What’s the objection to the new contract? It applies to all junior doctors – that is, doctors who aren’t consultants and GPs – and would change how they’re paid. The major concern is about ‘unsocial...
View ArticleTaharrush Gamea: has a new form of sexual harassment arrived in Europe?
The Swedish and German authorities say they have never encountered anything like it: groups of men encircling then molesting women in large public gatherings. It happened in Cologne and Stockholm, but...
View ArticleBriefing: What is the EU ‘red card’ and will it make any difference at all?
The ‘red card’ on proposed EU legislation has been hailed by David Cameron as a breakthrough; the ‘Stronger In’ campaign have put it at the top of their list of renegotiation successes. But it already...
View ArticleDan Walker’s creationism shouldn’t disqualify him from breakfast TV
According to the Times, Dan Walker, the new BBC Breakfast presenter, is ‘a creationist’. A ‘senior BBC figure’ is quoted as saying that this ‘nutty’ belief would make life difficult for Walker if,...
View ArticleWho is to blame for Brexit?
With Italy facing a referendum that could unseat its president, the EU’s member states in furious conflict over immigration, and Hillary Clinton looking like an increasingly shaky last line of defence,...
View ArticleThe strange similarity between Donald Trump and Pope Francis
Pope Francis (R) meets with US President Donald Trump during a private audience at the Vatican on May 24, 2017. US President Donald Trump met Pope Francis at the Vatican today in a keenly-anticipated...
View ArticleTheresa May’s climbdown on corporate excess is a major retreat for the Tories
‘Mayism’, whether it left you in admiration or despair, at least seemed like an identifiable philosophy. It was concerned with…
View ArticleArgentina is the latest battleground in a global war over abortion
People in favour of the legalization of abortion demonstrate outside the National Congress in Buenos Aires on August 01, 2018. - Despite no consensus was achieved in the senate commissions, the...
View ArticleAlabama’s abortion ban is a moment of hope
Alabama’s near-total abortion ban, signed into law on Wednesday by governor Kay Ivey, is a real moment of hope. The principle…
View ArticleIs not believing in transgenderism incompatible with human dignity?
Judges, like comedians, seem ever more convinced that their role in society is to broadcast their political opinions. As Jonathan…
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