Section: Global

What is seasonality anyway? Is eating seasonally really better? And is seasonality the same as sustainability?

Nowadays a child in need of special help gets “statemented” for SEN. Claire’s brother spent his life incarcerated due to mental handicap

Why do people buy bottled water? What exactly are the health benefits of various types of water? What is wrong with tap water?

O came and showed me the video on his phone of his hometown. There was gunfire, and frantic individuals scattering, clutching bags and boxes, what they had been trying to sell in the town centre. He told me the name of the town which he said was the last to fall to the Taliban before Kabul.

We started to discover that, when the Spanish Health Service has recognised a problem, it follows it through to a final cure.

Lilian and the Italians begins as the 1960’s story of a recently widowed Englishwoman’s quest to find her son, Andrew, last seen in Venice

Set off to Orbán’s Hungary to visit parents, siblings and friends. What do people think of government policies. Families are divided.

The German Health System is 77% government-and 23% privately funded by statutory health insurance based on payments into “Krankenkassen”

A Change of Seasons is a promising start by a new author. It is a very atmospheric book, grounded in the drama of every day life

The protagonist, Sophia is a Jewish girl from Babylon. The plot is broadly divided into five phases: her life in Babylon in a family of well-settled Jews, her father being a keeper of manuscripts; her flight across the desert with Nabatean merchants; her seven years with a strict Jewish sect;  her allegiance to the zealots in the time of the Roman attacks on Jerusalem, and finally her looking back in old age, from a female academy in Alexandria.