Whatever the perceived benefits of the UK’s official withdrawal from the European Union on 31 January 2020, there can be no denying that…
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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Accelerated High Street Bank Branch Closures: Balancing Bank Profitability and the Needs of the Disadvantaged
Britain’s high streets are being transformed at a relentless pace. Cafés, fast-food outlets, barber shops, nail bars, and charity shops are taking over,…
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Strikes in Britain’s Public Services: A Manifestation of Dysfunctional Employee-Employer Relations
A series of disruptive strikes, growing discontent among workers, and escalating strike action, drawing in hitherto uninvolved sectors of the public services, has…
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The State of General Practice in England: Implementing Reform or Supporting the Status Quo?
General practice in England, as in the rest of the UK, is in a “crisis” and indeed has been so for many years,…
The outburst of violence on Sunday, 8 January 2023, in Brasilia, Federal capital of South America’s largest nation, seemed inevitable. Throughout his term…
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Universal Mathematical Literacy in England: A Prime Ministerial Vision for the 21st Century
On 4 January 2023, Prime Minister Rishi Sunak, in his first major speech of the year, shared his vision of an England in…
Nearly three years to the day when the latest global pandemic was declared by the WHO, on 11 March 2020, COVID remains a…
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The North American Bomb Cyclone: Suffering and Death During the Christmas Holiday Season
From 21 December 2022 onwards, a large expanse of the continental US, extending from the Great Lakes in the north to the Rio…
An out-of-season increase in Group A streptococcal infections, including scarlet fever, has become headline news in England and is also a source…
It is common knowledge that the supply of new homes in England, for both owner-occupiers and renters, has failed to cope with rising…