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Hannah Barnes

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How Covid fear shaped the meningitis response

How Covid fear shaped the meningitis response

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21.03.2026 10

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How ready is Britain for fuel shortages?

How ready is Britain for fuel shortages?

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20.03.2026 10

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5. Streeting’s maternity taskforce to start work next week

5. Streeting’s maternity taskforce to start work next week

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18.03.2026 10

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5. Donna Ockenden to chair Leeds maternity investigation

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11.03.2026 10

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Exclusive: Greens to ditch “normal” childbirth policy

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06.03.2026 10

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4. New law allows for study of 9,000 children who received gender care

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27.02.2026 10

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Inside the decision to pause the puberty blocker trial

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26.02.2026 10

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How to turn breast milk into a cash cow

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26.02.2026 10

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England’s maternity system “not working” for anyone, review says

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26.02.2026 20

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Bereaved Sussex families call for ‘unlimited’ maternity investigation

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24.02.2026 10

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5. Why Gisèle Pelicot is a hero

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15.02.2026 150

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England’s maternity scandal engulfs another NHS trust

12.02.2026 20

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NHS puberty blocker trial information “ignores or minimises critically important risks”

27.01.2026 7

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One in ten children receiving NHS gender care are self-medicating with sex hormones

16.12.2025 10

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Oxford health professionals advise mothers to question “sensationalist” media coverage 

11.12.2025 10

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“Unacceptable care” for women and babies “much worse” than anticipated

09.12.2025 10

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2. Exclusive: Why Wes Streeting changed his mind on cross-sex hormones

07.12.2025 10

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Will the new puberty blocker trial put children at risk?

06.12.2025 10

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The BBC is worth fighting for

10.11.2025 8

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Wes Streeting on “scandalous” failings in Oxford maternity care

05.11.2025 10

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Britain’s next maternity scandal

05.11.2025 10

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Wes Streeting wants to fix the maternity system

20.10.2025 10

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The Labour government has abandoned British Jews

08.10.2025 10

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Britain isn’t safe for Jews anymore

04.10.2025 10

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The world has abandoned the hostages

02.10.2025 10

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The deep failings of NHS maternity care

25.09.2025 10

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The missing trusts from the maternity review

18.09.2025 10

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Will the government’s maternity review let families down again?

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16.09.2025 10

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Health bosses failed to act on NHS clinic prescribing gender drugs to kids for five years

25.08.2025 20

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Peter Kosminsky: We need a BBC that is brave

26.07.2025 10

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4. My brother was taken from us. I don’t know what to do

24.07.2025 10

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We need a culture change in maternity services

03.07.2025 9

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Keir Starmer’s grooming gang cowardice

18.06.2025 10

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Do our politicians understand the supreme court’s gender ruling?

14.06.2025 10

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Australia is no model for assisted dying

13.06.2025 20

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Lucy Connolly is not a political prisoner

29.05.2025 10

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Not in my name

21.05.2025 10

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The birth trauma taboo

10.05.2025 9

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The assisted dying impact assessment resolves nothing

08.05.2025 10

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Labour’s cynical shift on biological sex

23.04.2025 10

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Naz Shah: “The assisted dying bill is not fit for purpose”

29.03.2025 10

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How did the BBC’s Gaza documentary ever get broadcast?

12.03.2025 10

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Our overdiagnosis epidemic

10.03.2025 20

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An ode to female friendships

24.02.2025 10

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Katharine Birbalsingh: “They’re going to destroy our schools”

12.02.2025 10

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The Do No Harm dilemma

05.02.2025 9

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Music to inspire hope – and to accompany atrocity

23.01.2025 10

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The myth of the teenager

16.01.2025 10

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The truth about the grooming scandal

08.01.2025 9

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