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2 weeks ago | 
theguardian.com | Samira Shackle |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
Monica Feria-Tinta is one of a growing number of lawyers using the courts to make governments around the world take action
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1 month ago | 
prospectmagazine.co.uk | Samira Shackle
Since 2017, Donna Ockenden has spent much of her time gathering testimony about the very worst things that can happen during childbirth: death or serious injury for mothers and babies. The senior midwife did this first as chair of the independent review into failings at the Shrewsbury and Telford Hospital NHS Trust, which concluded in 2022 with the horrifying finding that women had been blamed “for their poor outcomes, in some cases even for their own death”.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Samira Shackle
In November 2024, Monica Feria-Tinta, a veteran of UN tribunals and the international criminal court, strode through a heavy black door into a Georgian building in London’s august legal district for a meeting about a tree in Southend. Affectionately known as Chester, the 150-year-old plane tree towers over a bus shelter in the centre of the Essex seaside town. The council wanted to cut it down and residents were fighting back – but they were running out of options.
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2 months ago | 
theguardian.com | Samira Shackle |Nicola Alexandrou |Ellie Bury
When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened?
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Mar 1, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Stephen Reicher |Rafael Behr |Frances Ryan |Rachel Clarke |Sophie Mackintosh |Laleh Khalili | +5 more
The cost of pessimistic individualism was measured in tens of thousands of livesStephen ReicherProfessor of psychology at the University of St Andrews and a fellow of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and the British AcademyGreat calamities often provoke reflections about the human condition. The Lisbon earthquake of 1755 led people to reconsider their relationship with God, and compelled Voltaire to viciously lampoon Leibniz’s notion that we live in the best of all possible worlds.
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
msn.com | Samira Shackle
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Feb 16, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Samira Shackle
We’ve heard a lot about prisons in recent months; specifically, the fact that they were full when the new government took office last summer. Labour introduced emergency measures to release thousands of prisoners early, which eased the immediate pressure. The government has committed to building four new prisons as well as adding blocks to existing prisons, creating 14,000 new prison spaces over the next seven years. But when the prison system gets bigger, so do the problems within it.
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Feb 14, 2025 | 
nuclear-news.net | Samira Shackle |Christina MacPherson
The Coventry experiment: why were Indian women in Britain given radioactive food without their consent? When details about a scientific study in the 1960s became public, there was shock, outrage and anxiety. But exactly what happened? By Samira Shackle, Guardian, 11 Feb 25In 2019, Shahnaz Akhter, a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick University, was chatting to her sister, who mentioned a documentary that had aired on Channel 4 in the mid-1990s.
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Feb 11, 2025 | 
theguardian.com | Samira Shackle
In 2019, Shahnaz Akhter, a postdoctoral researcher at Warwick University, was chatting to her sister, who mentioned a documentary that had aired on Channel 4 in the mid-1990s. It was about human radiation experiments, including one that had taken place in 1969 in Coventry. As part of an experiment on iron absorption, 21 Indian women had been fed chapatis baked with radioactive isotopes, apparently without their consent.
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Jan 23, 2025 | 
msn.com | Samira Shackle
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