People facing hazards during the pandemic in order to provide essential services deserve the same protections as the armed forcesThe relative comfort with which white-collar workers have weathered the current pandemic has been underwritten by the labour of a l... More »
Vaccine roll-out is by age group, with priority access for some of those working on the frontline or with conditions making them more vulnerable to Covid-19As of 6 March 2021, at least 22 million adults had received one dose of a Covid vaccine, with 1.2 millio... More »
Once the pandemic is under control, many will want to carry on like before, but I know from experience that may not be possibleAlmost a decade ago, on the morning of my 23rd birthday, I awoke with a pain in my abdomen. I was undergoing treatment for leukemia, ... More »
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In Beat Saber, you slice away at big squares that come rushing at you – it’s like colouring in and partying at the same timeWhen somebody suggested Beat Saber to me, I wasn’t interested. First, it looks rather intimidating from the demo videos: you’re inside a... More »
Experts give poor usability ratings to My Turn, the new statewide sign-up app for covid vaccination. But with so many problems plaguing the vaccination effort, it seems unreasonable to have expected this one to work perfectly. More »
We’ve had a traumatic year and lost patients and colleagues. But all he offers us is a derisory 1% pay offerRachel Clarke is a palliative care doctor and the author of Breathtaking: Inside the NHS in a Time of PandemicWhen the NHS saved his life last April, Bo... More »
It’s the standard unit of measurement for top football signings – and can be usefully applied to political expenditure too There’s no point demanding a retrospective VAR review on the footage of Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak clapping for the NHS last year. Foo... More »
I’d love to say I took it in my stride, but a 2% chance of something going wrong seemed a little highWhen I got a letter from our local hospital, inviting me to a telephone consultation with one of the urology team, I didn’t give the matter much thought. My ki... More »
Royal College of Nursing says government ‘dangerously out of touch’ with nursing staff, NHS workers and the publicPriti Patel reaches settlement with ex-Home Office chief Philip RutnamIFS criticises ‘remarkable’ move not to phase out universal credit upliftAna... More »
Amid a growing hunger crisis and a patchy federal safety net, these women are finding ways to feed their communities More »
Xiomara was already having labor pains when she presented herself to U.S. Border Patrol officials to make a claim for asylum. She had fled gang violence in El Salvador six months earlier, working under the table in Mexico to afford bus tickets for her and her ... More »