One of the many frustrating consequences of reading the deliberations of the Covid-19 public inquiry is the realisation that, at best, we won’t have the report until 2026. Should we…

The Oslo Agreement of 1993 extended a promise of self-governance to the Palestinian Authority, allowing control over aspects such as direct taxation, education, social welfare, tourism, and healthcare. This signified…

The law changed in 2018 to legalise cannabis prescribing in the UK – but few people know about it, and even fewer people have accessed a prescription. My own interest…

“Are you happy?” This is the question that provokes anthropologist Jean Rouch and sociologist Edgar Morin’s path-forming 1961 cinéma vérité film, Chronique d’un Été. Quizzing metropolitan Parisians about their bonheur,…

Patient-centred care (PCC) is typically framed as a moral imperative, necessary to prevent a return to the outmoded medical paternalism of the past. Critical engagement with the concept is difficult,…

In May 2022, the Office for National Statistics reported that 53% of women claim to feel very unsafe walking on their own at night in an open space and as…

Two books published around the time the NHS celebrated its 75th birthday (July 2023) have different views about the threats it faces. Dr Julia Grace Patterson argues that the history…

In April 2020, the UN secretary general, António Guterres cautioned that COVID-19 started as a public health emergency, but it was rapidly turning into a “human rights crisis.” The Covid-19…

Research on modern slavery and anti-slavery movements seem to have become bogged down in institutional and legal definitions of modern slavery, neglecting ‘the decisive role of circumstantial necessities and perspectives…