Michael Cowan

Apr 13, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Michael Cowan

I went down to our local Centrelink office the other day, the second such visit in a few months. It is a three-hour round trip but we had been instructed that it was better to go there in person. My wife and I are in our seventies and my wife, God bless her, works part-time as an interpreter and translator.

Mar 20, 2024 | yahoo.com | Michael Cowan |Hollie Cole

Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a "death sentence", says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life. Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care. The mother of Alice Litman, who killed herself while waiting for treatment, called for urgent changes to NHS care. NHS England said it planned to launch a review into adult gender services.

Mar 20, 2024 | bbc.co.uk | Michael Cowan |Hollie Cole

Transgender patients facing a years-long wait for NHS gender care are being handed a "death sentence", says the mum of a trans woman who took her own life. Data obtained by Newsnight and analysed by the BBC found it would take 10 years to clear the backlog of people waiting for first appointments in gender care. The mother of Alice Litman, who killed herself while waiting for treatment, called for urgent changes to NHS care. NHS England said it planned to launch a review into adult gender services.

Nov 8, 2023 | bbc.co.uk | Sima Kotecha |Michael Cowan

Both antisemitic and islamophobic abuse is rising at universities, experts tell the BBC.

Nov 7, 2023 | pressnewsagency.org | Michael Cowan |Sima Kotecha

By Michael Cowan & Sima KotechaBBC Newsnight59 minutes in the pastJewish college students are “deeply anxious” following an unprecedented rise in antisemitism at UK universities, BBC Information has been advised. Edward Isaac, president of the Union of Jewish College students, stated the present spike was like nothing the group had seen.