On 10 September 2024, Australia’s Prime Minister, Anthony Albanese, announced plans to trial age-verification technology, aiming for a yet-to-be-decided minimum age of between…
Author: Ashis Banerjee
I qualified at medical school forty years ago and used to be an emergency doctor in London. I have no affiliations of any sort. At a time of information overload and "fake news" I believe there is a place for unbiased evidence, free from opinions. Opinions are for people to form based on facts. I am tired of pointless and time-consuming debate over information readily available in the public domain.
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Combustible Cladding in High-Rise Buildings: A Toxic Legacy from the Construction Industry
The long-awaited, and much overdue, Phase 2 Report of the Public Inquiry into the Fire at Grenfell Tower, chaired by Sir Martin Moore-Bick,…
Rising numbers of adults, as well as children, are being diagnosed with ADHD (Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder), thereby adding to the pressures on…
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Cigarette Smoking in Public Spaces: Considering Personal Choice, A Sense of Entitlement, and the Wider Public Good
Recent revelations in leaked Whitehall documents that the UK Government is proposing to restrict the sale of cigarettes and other tobacco products to…
Just as we were bracing ourselves for a potential Biden-Trump standoff, something unexpected, although not entirely unpredictable, happened. President Joe Biden, whose personal…
On 13 August 2024, the Africa Centres for Disease Control and Prevention (Africa CDC) declared a Public Health Emergency of Continental Security (PHECS).…
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Olympic Gold for Imane Khelif, and the Wider Issue of Gender Eligibility in Elite Sport
On 9 August 2024, Algerian boxer Imane Khelif defeated No. 2 seed Yang Liu of China to win the Olympic gold medal in…
Sheikh Hasina Wajed, re-elected to her fourth consecutive term as Prime Minister of the People’s Republic of Bangladesh in January 2024, abruptly resigned…
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Urban Riots in England During the Summer of 2024: A Demonstration of the Irrepressible Power of Social Media
News of a heinous incident in the north-western English town of Southport on 29 July 2024, during which three young girls were fatally…
The Summer Olympic Games got off to a wet start in Paris on 26 July 2024, on a day when three lines on…