With Covid rates remaining stubbornly high and a huge pent-up demand for hospital care, the UK’s National Health Service faces a tough winter and intensive care wards are the canary in the mine. Pod Academy talks to doctors on the front line.
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It’s not about individual countries. It’s not about individual regions. It’s not even about blocks. This doesn’t work unless we vaccinate everybody. But is geopolitics getting in the way of good public health policy as we strive to overcome COVID-19?
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Journalism has sometimes been a dangerous profession during the Covid-19 pandemic, but there has been real innovation, too. Rachael Jolley considers how Covid 19 has influenced the future of journalism
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Authoritarian restrictions on the press, attacks on journalists in the streets and more accusations of ‘fake news’
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Local newspapers are in decline, exacerbated by the Covid pandemic. Can a new type of hyper-local journalism be the answer for local information and local democracy?
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A new UK think tank, British Future, has been set up to look into identity, integration, migration and opportunity in modern Britain. Their new research report, Hopes and Fears, looks at what it means to be British in 2012.
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Anupama Srinivasan argues that what we know about gender violence in South Asia – dowry harassment, domestic violence, acid attacks – is just the tip of the tip of the iceberg. Anupama is Programme Director at the Gender Violence Research…
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