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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Kathryn Samson
Today the UK Supreme court gave a definitive answer: someone born a man cannot in the eyes of the law be a woman. When the judgement was read out, there were whoops of joy and hugs among the feminist campaigners, some who spent more than a decade battling to defend what the word woman meant.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Kathryn Samson
Two weeks of escalation, bravado, noise, and then climbdowns and u-turns. Having started a global trade war, it was the US president who blinked first. So we find ourselves now with a global 10% tariff on goods imported to America. And then one massive exception: China. Over this weekend more confusion. It emerged that laptops and other electronics wouldn’t be hit by tariffs. But today the US commerce secretary has announced those goods will face their own tariff regime.
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1 week ago |
channel4.com | Kathryn Samson
In a rare move Parliament was recalled to pass emergency legislation and keep the two blast furnaces at Scunthorpe alight. That’s after talks between the UK government and the Chinese company Jingye, which owns British Steel, collapsed. The Steel Industry Special Measures Bill gives the government effective control over the company, though some believe it’s an opportunity to renationalise the steel industry in the UK.
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3 weeks ago |
channel4.com | Kathryn Samson
After fighting for justice for eight years, the families of two young people who took their own lives inside Scotland’s largest young offenders institution, have finally met the head of the Scottish Prison Service. She agreed that rules which prevent state prisons from being prosecuted for safety failures need to change. An inquiry into the deaths of William Lindsay and Katie Allen in Polmont in 2018, found a catalogue of failures in the system and said their deaths could have been avoided.
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1 month ago |
channel4.com | Kathryn Samson
Amid years of cutbacks and staff shortages – could robots help to provide the future of medical care? At the National Robotarium in Edinburgh, the UK’s leading centre for robotics and AI – scientists are investigating how they could fill the gaps in the system which humans can’t cover. And that could involve everything from answering the phone to supporting dementia patients with routine tasks.
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To Gordon. One of the very best. ❤️
Today I’m toasting the 40th birthday of a man who did not live to see it. My beautiful husband Gordon Aikman died from Motor Neurone Disease at the age of 31. MND is one of the cruellest diseases and has no cure. But as Gordon’s body weakened and he lost the ability to walk, https://t.co/7ChyfsMYqb
