By Katie L-S, April 30th, 2009
UPDATED – 2 MAY
As the risk of a Swine Flu pandemic increases, we should think about how it came about, and what we could do to prevent similar crises in the future. The financial meltdown lead politicians to consider systemic changes – will the swine flu outbreak do the same for the food production industry?
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By Katie L-S, April 23rd, 2009
From the Peru archives
The high life
You don’t see the typical guide book Peruvian – indigenous, dark-skinned and dressed in brightly coloured woven fabrics – at the gym in downtown Lima. Here, the average exerciser looks distinctly European, a combination of natural attributes and money: relatively tall and fair-skinned with an unnaturally high proportion of blondes.
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By Katie L-S, April 13th, 2009
By Katie L-S, April 11th, 2009
New revelations about the death of Ian Tomlinson highlight the benefits of this media-saturated society, while Bob Quick’s embarrasing mistake shows its dangers.
When a man died at the anti-G20 protests in London at the beginning of this month, it seemed an open and shut case. Ian Tomlinson died of a heart attack; police had done their best to assist him when he fell to the ground. The Independent Police Complaints Commission let the London police conduct their own investigation, and didn’t look into things much further.
If it hadn’t been for the media doing their own research, that’s where things would have ended.
