33,001,707 anti depressants dispensed over the past ten years to under 25 year olds – 3,656,902 to under 18s – Does anyone ever stop to ask why? Or what are the underlying causes. Or how are the causes being addressed? Or whether sufficient information is provided about potential side effects? Baroness Merron, the Department of Health and...
Global tensions: Parallels between the past and present – essay for Global Intelligence Service. “if appeasement leads us to abandon Ukraine – and to ignoring Mr. Putin’s war crimes – it will be a green light for subsequent attacks on other smaller nations including NATO partners….It is hard not to draw a parallel between today and the 1930s appeasement of supine leaders who believed that ceding other people’s territory would satisfy the appetite of autocrats who cravings would prove insatiable.” And recall the words of an American President: “Only free peoples can hold their purpose and their honour steady to a common end and prefer the interests of mankind to any narrow interest of their own.” Global tensions: Parallels between the past and...
UK says the number of girls at risk of Female Genital Mutilation (FGM) “is growing” with 230 million women and girls alive today who have undergone FGM and 4.2 million girls at risk of undergoing FGM every year. The UK is investing up to £35.5 million in the Africa-Led Movement to End FGM programme which operates in Kenya, Senegal, Somalia, and Ethiopia. Government says”We must work 27 times faster to eliminate FGM by 2030″ Lord Collins of Highbury, the Foreign,...