During the early hours of 8 December 2024, Syrian rebel forces entered the capital city of Damascus, ending the 24-year reign of Bashar…
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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Six Hours of Emergency Martial Law in South Korea during December 3-4 2024: Some Explanatory Notes
Without warning, in an act of desperation, and empowered by South Korea’s Constitution, President Yoon Suk-yeol informed his audience on the 24-hour YTN…
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Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill 2024: The Latest Attempt to Legalise Assisted Dying in England and Wales
A packed House of Commons was at its best on 29 November 2024 as MPs eschewed party-political loyalties and voted on the real…
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Methanol Poisoning: The Pointless Loss of Young Lives, and A Wider Problem in Southeast Asia
On 11 November 2024, two 19-year-old Australian backpackers, Bianca Jones and Holly Bowles, booked themselves into the Nana Backpackers Hotel in the town…
Estimates vary, but on 19 November 2024, around 20,000, or maybe more, angry, yet peaceful and orderly, British farmers converged on a…
During his recent Presidential election campaign, Donald Trump repeatedly professed his love of tariffs. The depth of this love was revealed by Trump’s…
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The Forced Resignation of the Archbishop of Canterbury: Challenging Times for the Church of England
Having anointed, and then crowned King Charles III, Supreme Governor of the Church England, on 6 May 2023, the Most Revd. Justin Welby,…
Donald Trump confounded his critics, as well as many pollsters and political pundits, by his decisive victory in the US Presidential Election on…
Over eight hours on 29 October 2024, more rain fell in parts of the Valencia region in south-eastern Spain than had in the…
Fortified with mineral water, having forgone the permitted alcoholic drink, Rachel Reeves, Britain’s first-ever female Chancellor of the Exchequer, began delivering her maiden…