7 h. ago GP who faked medical appointments at work so she would not be late for the afternoon school run suspended from practising for 5 months

A family doctor who faked medical appointments at work so she would not be late for the afternoon school run has been suspended from treating patients.

Economics

7 d. ago My daughter was in the Brown University library, hiding under the desk | Sarah Ruhl

This normalization of gun violence in the US – who is it serving? Why can we not collectively make this not normal again?On her first day of fourth grade, wearing her magenta spectacles, my daughter Anna arrived to the Big School where she couldn’t reach the drinking fountains. She was small for her age, in terms of stature, though she had big ideas.I went to pick her up that afternoon, the first day of school, and I looked eagerly at all the young faces streaming out the door, but no Anna. The high schoolers flooded out, then the middle schoolers. Still no Anna. I started to get that mother panic vibration thing in my belly and I called the lower middle school office.Sarah Ruhl is a playwright, essayist, teacher, mother of three and Brown University graduate. Her most recent book is Lessons from my Teachers, from preschool to the present. Her collaboration with A Great Big World, the musical Wonder, is at American Repertory Theater in Boston through February Continue reading...

Politics

1 week ago Paul Rudd says he lied about being directed by Sir Ben Kingsley on his CV

Rudd said he had done ‘an afternoon masterclass’ with Oscar-winning Sir Ben when he was in school.

Politics

1 week ago A Harvard scholar’s ouster exposes a crisis of institutional integrity | Eric Reinhart

The dismissal of a a renowned health leader who refused to ignore Palestine highlights false claims of universality in human rights, global health and academiaLast Tuesday afternoon, Dean Andrea Baccarelli at the Harvard School of Public Health sent out a brief message announcing that one of the country’s most experienced and accomplished public health leaders, Dr Mary T Bassett, would “step down” as director of the François-Xavier Bagnoud Center for Health and Human Rights. The email struck a polite, bureaucratic tone, thanking her for her service and offering an upbeat rationale for a new “focus on children’s health”.It omitted the fact that, according to a Harvard Crimson source, Bassett had been asked to resign just two hours earlier and instructed to vacate her office by the end of the year. The decision was not a routine administrative transition. It was the culmination of a year of escalating pressure on the Center for Health and Human Rights for its work on the health and hu...

Events

2 w. ago Brown University shooting person of interest is ARRESTED after 14 hours on the run as two killed and 9 injured on campus

The gunman went on a rampage at around 4pm on Saturday afternoon at the prestigious Ivy League school.

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2 w. ago Armed police swoop as UK school locked down after 'threats to kill'

Officers were standing at the gates of Ysgol Bro Myrddin secondary school in Carmarthen on Wednesday afternoon after armed cops swooped, placing students into lockdown

Events

3 w. ago Walking into disaster: how narcotraffickers captured the BVI

When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its wayAugustus James Ulysses Jaspert, Gus for short, arrived in Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, on 21 August 2017, just two weeks away from catastrophe. Jaspert, who was in his late 30s, had recently been appointed governor by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of the Foreign Office in London. The BVI is an overseas territory of Britain, with only partial independence, and the governor effectively acts as a backstop to the locally elected legislature. For Jaspert, a career civil servant, it would be his first hands-on experience of governing – and his first time in the British Virgin Islands. Any trepidation was outweighed by the prospect of moving to the Caribbean. “If you’re sitting in an office in London and someone says, ‘Go to Tortola,’ you look it up on a screen and think, ‘OK, I can do that,’” Jaspert told me.While Jas...

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3 w. ago Walking into disaster: the narcotrafficking scandal that blew up the BVI

When the new premier of the British Virgin Islands said he needed an armed security detail, his chief of police knew trouble was on its wayAugustus James Ulysses Jaspert, Gus for short, arrived in Tortola, the largest of the British Virgin Islands, on 21 August 2017, just two weeks away from catastrophe. Jaspert, who was in his late 30s, had recently been appointed governor by Queen Elizabeth II, on the recommendation of the Foreign Office in London. The BVI is an overseas territory of Britain, with only partial independence, and the governor effectively acts as a backstop to the locally elected legislature. For Jaspert, a career civil servant, it would be his first hands-on experience of governing – and his first time in the British Virgin Islands. Any trepidation was outweighed by the prospect of moving to the Caribbean. “If you’re sitting in an office in London and someone says, ‘Go to Tortola,’ you look it up on a screen and think, ‘OK, I can do that,’” Jaspert told me.While Jas...

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3 w. ago Putin's psycho "Dr Evil" charged with war crimes after making Ukrainians bark like dogs

Putin's psycho fake medic Ilya Sorokin – dubbed Dr Evil – is accused of a slew of torture claims against wounded Ukrainian prisoners of war and has been charged in his absence

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4 w. ago Girl killed in crash involving minibus carrying nine teenagers near school in Tadcaster

Another girl is serious injured after the crash near Tadcaster Grammar School on Monday afternoon

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