- Emmanuel Macron: A New Hope for Europe?
- My colleague @MathildeBouvier on the new landscape.
(tags: france ) - Some Recent Irish History
- John Bruton has not forgotten 1997.
(tags: ireland ) - New consensus in Germany – Brexit should be clean, and Britain should pay for it
- @JeremyCliffe reports.
(tags: germany eu brexit ) - Chasing Cures for Deadly Scourges, and Getting in Our Own Way
- How we fail to eliminate diseases.
(tags: polio health ) - Suicides of benefit claimants reveal DWP flaws
- How the UK gov’t kills the poor and disabled.
(tags: ukpolitics disability )
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Last year I didn’t have my jab, but it didn’t matter because the person I got flu from had theirs – we just got the wrong strain! As the nurse said, “we vaccinate against the strains that are going to kill you/put you in hospital, not the ones that just make you feel awful for a week”.