Hannah Barnes
Associate Editor and Writer at The New Statesman
Associate Editor @NewStatesman; Author, Baillie Gifford & Orwell shortlisted “Time to Think” https://t.co/tGHnbC8Iq7; ex BBC; https://t.co/LTuuBeEFMH
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5 days ago |
newstatesman.com | Hannah Barnes
Giving birth in England is not safe. Half of all maternity units are rated either inadequate or requiring improvement. Just 5 per cent – one in 20 – are outstanding. The UK is performing worse than many of our European neighbours when it comes to deaths of mothers within 42 days of the end of pregnancy. And gross inequalities remain: black women are twice as likely to die in childbirth than white women; women aged 35 or older are three time more likely to die than those in their early twenties.
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1 week ago |
newstatesman.com | Hannah Barnes
When it comes to candidates for most blatant attempt to bury bad news, the government’s release of its impact assessment of the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill is right up there. Releasing the publication at 4pm on the Friday before a Bank Holiday weekend, when the nation’s media is preoccupied by the most exciting set of local election results in decades and a seismic shift in UK politics, takes some beating.
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3 weeks ago |
newstatesman.com | Hannah Barnes
It took the UK’s highest court to say what many have always known: that “sex” in the law (under the Equality Act 2010) means biological sex. In its ruling on 16 April, the court set out why – from pregnancy to sport, access to refuges to women-only changing rooms – the Equality Act would be “unworkable, inconsistent and incoherent” if sex were not confined to biological sex but also included trans people with a gender recognition certificate (GRC).
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1 month ago |
newstatesman.com | Hannah Barnes
Should it become law, the Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill would be the most significant change to British society for a generation. Those judged to be terminally ill, with six months or less to live, could be helped to die – if assessed as eligible by two doctors. A committee of 23 MPs has spent the past six weeks scrutinising the bill.
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1 month ago |
newstatesman.com | Hannah Barnes
When, in September 2024, the Office for National Statistics (ONS) downgraded data from the census for the first time in its 120-plus-year history, it shocked many. Having spent years ignoring advice and warnings about how to gain accurate data on both biological sex and the transgender population, the ONS asked such a confusing question on gender identity that it rendered the findings meaningless.
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