Rachel Roberts
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Rachel Roberts is a London-based journalist with a background in local then national news. She focuses on health and education stories and has a particular interest in vaccines and issues impacting children.
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GPs Begin Prescribing Weight Loss Jabs to Obese Patients on NHS
Mounjaro is the first weight-loss drug that family doctors can prescribe directly to patients meeting strict criteria, with demand expected to exceed supply.
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Doctor Who Spoke out Against COVID-19 Vaccines Faces Being Struck Off for Misconduct
GP David Cartland said he was targeted by 77th Brigade accounts in strident online debates, with his barrister warning history could ‘prove him right’ on jabs.
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MPs Debate Call to Ban Halal and Kosher Animal Slaughter
Religious groups and some MPs claim that public support for ending non-stunned killing of animals is motivated partly by Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
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White Brits Will Be a Minority in UK Within 40 Years, Report Predicts
Author Matt Goodwin says ’scale and pace‘ of demographic change is ’unsettling' not only for white British people, but for many within minority groups as well.
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Driver in Fatal Collision With Mike Lynch’s Business Partner 2 Days Before Superyacht Sank Can’t be Named, Coroner Rules
An inquest into the death of Stephen Chamberlain, Lynch’s co-defendant in a U.S. fraud case, hears the ’safety conscious’ runner was killed crossing a road.
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US State Department Monitoring Lucy Connolly Case Amid Free Speech Concerns
Intervention over mother jailed for inciting racial hatred follows Vice President JD Vance’s warning that freedom of expression in the UK is ‘in retreat.’
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Gender and Education Funding Scaled Back in Foreign Aid Cuts But Vaccine Programmes Stay
UK will no longer be seen as ‘global charity,’ according to Baroness Jenny Chapman, who denied that Labour is following the lead of the U.S. DOGE.
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Nurse Left ‘Traumatised’ After Being Told Trans Colleague Would Be Part of Hysterectomy Team
One of the Darlington nurses, Karen Danson, said that having to change alongside a trans-identified male colleague triggered memories of childhood sexual abuse.
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NHS Urged to Halt Puberty Blocker Trial Following Supreme Court Judgment
Trial of banned drugs is due to begin despite the ruling, which campaigners say means the premise for treating gender dysphoria in children has ‘fallen away.’
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The Businesses and Charities Ignoring UK Supreme Court Ruling on Single-Sex Spaces
A rape crisis centre, theatres, museums, and London ladies’ pond continue to allow trans-identifying males access to women’s spaces, despite legal clarity.
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GPs Begin Prescribing Weight Loss Jabs to Obese Patients on NHS
Mounjaro is the first weight-loss drug that family doctors can prescribe directly to patients meeting strict criteria, with demand expected to exceed supply.
|
Doctor Who Spoke out Against COVID-19 Vaccines Faces Being Struck Off for Misconduct
GP David Cartland said he was targeted by 77th Brigade accounts in strident online debates, with his barrister warning history could ‘prove him right’ on jabs.
|
MPs Debate Call to Ban Halal and Kosher Animal Slaughter
Religious groups and some MPs claim that public support for ending non-stunned killing of animals is motivated partly by Islamophobia and anti-Semitism.
|
White Brits Will Be a Minority in UK Within 40 Years, Report Predicts
Author Matt Goodwin says ’scale and pace‘ of demographic change is ’unsettling' not only for white British people, but for many within minority groups as well.
|
Driver in Fatal Collision With Mike Lynch’s Business Partner 2 Days Before Superyacht Sank Can’t be Named, Coroner Rules
An inquest into the death of Stephen Chamberlain, Lynch’s co-defendant in a U.S. fraud case, hears the ’safety conscious’ runner was killed crossing a road.
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US State Department Monitoring Lucy Connolly Case Amid Free Speech Concerns
Intervention over mother jailed for inciting racial hatred follows Vice President JD Vance’s warning that freedom of expression in the UK is ‘in retreat.’
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Gender and Education Funding Scaled Back in Foreign Aid Cuts But Vaccine Programmes Stay
UK will no longer be seen as ‘global charity,’ according to Baroness Jenny Chapman, who denied that Labour is following the lead of the U.S. DOGE.
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Nurse Left ‘Traumatised’ After Being Told Trans Colleague Would Be Part of Hysterectomy Team
One of the Darlington nurses, Karen Danson, said that having to change alongside a trans-identified male colleague triggered memories of childhood sexual abuse.
|
NHS Urged to Halt Puberty Blocker Trial Following Supreme Court Judgment
Trial of banned drugs is due to begin despite the ruling, which campaigners say means the premise for treating gender dysphoria in children has ‘fallen away.’
|
The Businesses and Charities Ignoring UK Supreme Court Ruling on Single-Sex Spaces
A rape crisis centre, theatres, museums, and London ladies’ pond continue to allow trans-identifying males access to women’s spaces, despite legal clarity.
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