Crime Education Equality & Inclusion Health Human Rights NHS Scotland

Scottish Drug Deaths – An Analysis

This week it was announced that 1,187 drug-related deaths were registered in Scotland in 2018, the largest number ever recorded. This caused a shockwave to run through Scottish politics, though it wasn’t such a shock to those on the front line who knew the figures would be terrible. But seeing anecdotal evidence of a spiralling […]

Climate & Environment Crime Democracy Feminism Human Rights Westminster

Equality for Women… Thrash ’em all…

You’d almost think that the Tories knew right from wrong. Foreign Office minister Mark Field attacks, sorry restrains female Greenpeace protester Janet Barker, and says he was acting “instinctively”, that she may have been carrying a weapon.  He regrets it of course and immediately refers himself to the Cabinet Office for an investigation. Meanwhile Theresa […]

Crime Human Rights Racism

Justice for Terrell

This report contains images some readers may find distressing.   The police watchdog, IPCC, is investigating after a 15 year old child was severely injured during an attempted arrest in South London on Tuesday night, needing hospital treatment. The boy, Terrell Decosta Jones-Burton, was treated in a critical care unit in a south London hospital […]