“Second, reporters are messengers – their job is to tell, as accurately as they can, what has been said, with the benefit of such insight as their experience allows them to bring, not to second guess whether what is said is right.” Laurence, Jeremy. “Dr Goldacre doesn’t make everything better” The Independent on the Web [...]

You can read the dirty details in Amnesty’s press release: Amnesty ‘disappointed’ by FT’s decision to pull ad targeting Shell To understand just how bad things in the Niger delta are, Amnesty have produced this video.

We’re currently looking to move and have been assessing different London boroughs to get an idea of where we’d like to move to and what the change to our cost of living would be. It has surprised me that there is such a great range of council tax rates across the boroughs, so I thought [...]

It’s the end of a rough couple of weeks and though it has been hard going, it has also been highly beneficial. Sometimes, especially if you have a chronic illness, it can be easy to loose yourself in the ebb and flow of life. Taking a bit of time to yourself to stop and really [...]

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