Reproductive Rights in Irish Law: A Beginner’s Guide
A protest vigil in memory of Savita Halappanavar When the tragic news of Savita Halappanavar's death was circulated around the world on Wednesday, it brought Ireland's strict anti-abortion laws to…
Celebrating 44 Years of Legal Abortion
Today it is exactly 44 years since the 1967 Abortion Act came into effect. Since 27th April 1968, women in Scotland, England and Wales have had the right to decide…
Video: Pollution killing 4,000 Londoners a year
London's air quality has returned to the days of the smogs, and is causing the premature deaths of over 4,000 citizens per year, according to this campaign film released by…
Scotland's GPs Call for an End to ATOS Assessments
Scotland's GP's have called for to an end to the Government's controversial, computer-based 'Work Capability Assessments' carried out by French IT multinational Atos Origin for the DWP with "immediate effect":…
Caring about Care
This post is published as a series of blogs about privatisation and in support of the ‘Week of Auctions organised by an alliance of anti-cuts groups across the UK. The…
Kill electoralism, not the NHS
So that's it then. It's all over (bar the committee and third reading). The lords didn't save the NHS. Despite all the petitions, all the tweets and hashtags, despite adopting…
Some Utopian Thinking on Health (Part II)
In the first post I talked about the need for a more idealistic health policy than one which relies so heavily upon the pharmaceutical industry, leading to the question of…
Some Utopian Thinking on Health (Part I)
The NHS is generally a pretty unifying issue. Such is the affection in which it is held, that the Tories realize that great stealth is needed in their assault upon…
Report on the Report of the Global Commission on Drug Policy
The Global Commission on Drug Policy reported this week. The Commission included current and former presidents and prime ministers, secretaries of state etc from of a number of countries, Kofi…
It’s better to break the law than to break the poor
We need a little perspective before discussing the cuts. The fact of the matter is that the cuts will beyond any doubt kill people. M Harvey Brenner showed through his…