5 d. ago 'Please help us': Why Scotland must hear voices of Afghan women suffering under Taliban's gender apartheid

As Susan Dalgety listens to young Afghan women describe how they have been all but erased from society, she begins to cry. But her tears soon turn to anger

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1 week ago Loose Women star's health warning after 'suffering from constant pain'

Lolose Women star Jane Moore has opened up about the "constant pain" she is in as she cares for her 94-year-old mother, who is living with Alzheimer's disease

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1 week ago Loose Women star issues health warning after 'suffering from constant pain'

Jane Moore has been caring for her mother and dealing with her divorce, something she says has given her a 'push on attitude' as she navigates her sixties

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1 week ago Loose Women star 'suffering constant pain' as she cares for mum with Alzheimer's

Jane Moore has been caring for her mother and dealing with her divorce, something she says has given her a 'push on attitude' as she navigates her sixties

Politics

3 w. ago NHS facing ‘absolutely shocking’ £27bn bill for maternity failings in England

Exclusive: Legal actions rise after death or injury of hundreds of babies and women in recent yearsThe NHS is facing an “absolutely shocking” £27bn bill for maternity failings in England, the Guardian can reveal, after a series of hospital scandals triggered a record level of legal claims.Hundreds of babies and women have died or suffered life-altering conditions as a result of botched care in NHS trusts across the country in recent years, prompting the government to launch a “rapid” national inquiry. Continue reading...

Economics

3 w. ago Noel Gallagher says Scotland is a 'third world country' in bitter feud with Lewis Capaldi

Oasis are set to play Edinburgh's Murrayfield Stadium for three nights next month but Scots fans may not be impressed to hear what Noel has said about Scotland in the past.

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3 w. ago The Sleep Room by Jon Stock review – the psychiatrist who abused female patients

This harrowing account of a British doctor and his shocking experiments on young women includes a testimony from the actor Celia Imrie, who was one of his patientsIn a hospital in Waterloo, London, in the mid-1960s was a psychiatric ward full of sleeping women. Suffering from disorders ranging from post-partum depression to chronic anxiety to anorexia, the residents of the “sleep room” were sedated and woken only to be washed, fed or subjected to electroconvulsive therapy (ECT). All were under the supervision of psychiatrist William Sargant, who at the time was hailed as a pioneer. Sargant claimed that a combination of enforced narcosis and ECT could fix disturbed minds. Failing that, the treatment would be surgical lobotomy.The Sleep Room is author Jon Stock’s gripping account of a scandal in which female patients were denied dignity and agency by a man who wielded absolute power over their bodies. The book is ably narrated by actors Richard Armitage, Antonia Beamish and Celia Imri...

Science

4 w. ago The disastrous MoD data leak should have been cleared up – not covered up

Editorial: The leak itself placed all the Afghans listed in jeopardy. The superinjunction threatened to make the leak even worse, by giving the impression that all of those on it were – in the eyes of the Taliban – traitors

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