Social care crisis is letting down professional carers too

Jun 07, 2019 16:00 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

I started as a care worker in August 2012, a year after a BBC Panorama documentary exposing abuse at Winterbourne View sent shock waves through the social care system. During my time care working, between 2012 to 2014,...

Vegans and vegetarians: the history of how plant-based diets grew out of left-wing ideology

Jun 07, 2019 15:59 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

The rise of the vegetarian and, more recently, the vegan diet is generally perceived to be a new phenomenon. So, too, is their association with contemporary progressive ideas, politics and lifestyles. But plant-based diets...

How to build a business that lasts more than 200 years – lessons from Japan's shinise companies

Jun 07, 2019 15:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Business

Japan is home to a number of the worlds oldest companies. There is even a specific Japanese term for companies that have survived for more than a century, retained ownership within the same family and continued plying the...

Women have been the heart of the Christian right for decades

Jun 07, 2019 15:58 pm UTC| Insights & Views Law

Alabamas new abortion restrictions were signed into law by Gov. Kay Ivey. But more has been said recently about the fact that the bill was passed by 25 white men in the state Senate. Media reports have pointed to how this...

No, Americans shouldn't fear traveling abroad

Jun 07, 2019 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Life

As summer travel season begins, friends and relatives have asked me if its safe to travel outside the U.S. I understand their fears. The news is filled with scary stories, like a tourist bus being bombed near Egypts...

What the US could learn about vaccination from Nigeria

Jun 07, 2019 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

To consider that Nigeria, infamous for anti-vaxx campaigns leading to polio outbreaks, has any lessons for Americans may be shocking. But as measles cases in the U.S. climb to an all-time high after the disease was...

Spiritual science: how a new perspective on consciousness could help us understand ourselves

Jun 07, 2019 15:57 pm UTC| Insights & Views Health

Scientists have long been trying to understand human consciousness the subjective stuff of thoughts and sensations inside our minds. There used to be an assumption that consciousness is produced by our brains, and that in...