Emma Dowling

Jul 24, 2024 | everand.com | Beril Naz Hassan |Nuray Bulbul |Sian Baldwin |Emma Dowling

Seven Labour MPs who defied the Government by backing an amendment to scrap the two-child benefit cap have lost the whip. Apsana Begum, Richard Burgon, Ian Byrne, Imran Hussain, Rebecca Long-Bailey, John McDonnell and Zarah Sultana have been suspended from the parliamentary party for six months, after which their position will be reviewed, it was reported. Prime Minister Sir Keir Starmer faced his first Commons rebellion on Tuesday as the Government comfortably defeated calls to scrap the cap.

Mar 11, 2024 | events.ceu.edu | Emma Dowling

Lecture The crisis in the healthcare sector has been in the headlines repeatedly since the coronavirus pandemic. However, this crisis dynamic did not begin with the pandemic, nor was it caused by it. The problems of contemporary healthcare systems in Global North countries lie much deeper and manifest themselves in a series of increasingly acute contradictions. On the one hand, health has improved, and life expectancy has increased, not least due to medical advances.

Feb 9, 2024 | medium.com | Emma Dowling

Hey guys and welcome to my first ever blog! My name is Emma, I am a first year college student and I have a few tips and tricks up my sleeve for your upcoming getaway. It’s that time of the year again… Planning a holiday! Whether that being a family holiday or a girls (or lads!) trip, I might just have the guide on what to do and what not to do for planning your next trip.

Oct 9, 2023 | znetwork.org | Emma Dowling

Since the 1970s, the UK has been experiencing a care crisis that has led groups and generations to compete over artificially scarce resources and shifted the responsibility onto households – primarily women. With the population set to age further in the decades to come, the ever-expanding marketisation of care must be replaced by a system based on solidarity. The UK is experiencing an ongoing care crisis – one in which different sections of the population are played off against one another.

Oct 6, 2023 | greenworld.org.uk | Emma Dowling

This interview originally appeared in the Green European Journal on 28 September 2023. The UK is experiencing an ongoing care crisis – one in which different sections of the population are played off against one another. This is a point at which the politics of austerity and the neoliberal imperative of competition come together to produce a particularly harmful way of governing society, in which different groups of people are forced to fight over access to scarce resources.