The overwhelming majority of written submissions [from women about NHS maternity services] referred to a lack of kindness or compassion on the part of the health professionals looking after them.” At ...

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Last year, Ayesha Shikalgar was excitedly looking to the future. She and her husband, in their early 30s, were trying for a baby and harbouring dreams of building a business. Their quiet life in the ...

US marines raise the American flag on the Japanese island of Iwo Jima, 1945. Credit: Joe Rosenthal Year: 1943. Somewhere in occupied Europe a brave band of brothers are trying to sabotage Nazi ...

The imprisoned Nigerian humanist has had his sentence reduced – but the scourge of blasphemy laws remains Mubarak Bala, the imprisoned Nigerian humanist, has had his sentence reduced and is now due to ...

Clare Chambers is a professor of political philosophy and a Fellow of Jesus College, University of Cambridge. Her work deals with contemporary liberalism, social construction, feminism, and social ...