“I would call it state violence”– Luqman Onikosi on receiving a deportation...
Luqman Onikosi, a student at Sussex University, effectively faces a death sentence from the Home Office – if sent back to Nigeria he will be deprived of the medical support necessary for living with a...
View ArticleJeremy Hunt: Aristocrat, Liar, Secretary of State for Nepotism and Privatisation
Jeremy Hunt, liar, aristocrat and secretary of state for health is currently facing strong resistance from junior doctors to his plans for a ‘7 day NHS’ In this bumper #IMOBastani Aaron explains why...
View ArticleCan the Junior Doctors’ strike save the NHS?
This week Michael Walker is joined by Aislinn Macklin-Doherty, Youssef El-Gingihy, Ellie-Mae O’Hagan and Paul McCrone to discuss the ongoing junior doctors’ dispute and whether junior doctors can save...
View ArticleHow to Open up a Second Front in the Battle for the NHS
Today the UK’s junior doctors went on strike between 9am and 5pm without providing emergency cover – the first time this has happened in the history of the NHS. It’s a bold move and so far it seems to...
View ArticleBeyond TTIP: The Murky Pro-Corporate Trade Agenda is Bad For Our Health
In the run-up to the EU referendum, discussion of the threat posed by the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) to the NHS and Britain’s wider public sector moved from the shade of the...
View ArticleWe Need To Talk About How Mental Health is Political
Shon Faye looks at the politics of mental illness. The biases of how it’s defined, who gets diagnosed and how people affected can resist discrimination and cuts to vital services.
View ArticleTreat, Don’t Police! Fighting the Immigration Act in the NHS
Many were shocked last month when the gourmet burger restaurant Byron appeared to collude with the Home Office to conduct a sting operation that resulted in dozens of their employees being arrested on...
View ArticleMental Health & Masculinity
Aaron Bastani talks mental health, masculinity and shares his own experience with depression.
View ArticleCold Comfort: A&E Fills With Those Left in the Cold
This is part one of Cold Comfort, a regular series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E. Leaving my first night shift in an accident and emergency department on the morning of the coldest...
View ArticleCold Comfort: So-Called ‘Tough Decisions’ Are Putting Patients at Risk
This is part two of Cold Comfort, a regular series covering the NHS winter crisis from within A&E. Waking up intermittently in my ‘days’ between night shifts in the emergency department, I flick...
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