Do you mean women?— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)RelatedContent from our partnersCloseshowing that one in three women in the UK don’t attend cervical screening because of “embarrassment”, and 31 per cent of women wouldn’t go to a screening if they hadn’t waxed or shaved their bikini area. This points to a deep shame around female biology that has serious public health consequences: awareness campaigns encouraging women to attend, and indeed, Theresa May’s own plea from the dispatch box in 2019 for people to attend their smear tests, are a concerted effort to address this problem, but it...…Do you mean women?— Piers Morgan (@piersmorgan)RelatedContent from our partnersCloseshowing that one in three women in the UK don’t attend cervical screening because of “embarrassment”, and 31 per cent of women wouldn’t go to a screening if they hadn’t waxed or shaved their bikini area. This points to a deep shame around female biology that has serious public health consequences: awareness campaigns encouraging women to attend, and indeed, Theresa May’s own plea from the dispatch box in 2019 for people to attend their smear tests, are a concerted effort to address this problem, but it...WW…

As the dust settles after Poland’s close-run presidential election, supporters of the defeated challenger Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s relatively progressive mayor, are already wondering what he will do next.In the election on 12 July, Andrzej Duda, the incumbent president backed by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, grasped a narrow with 51 per cent of the vote compared to Trzaskowski’s 49 per cent. This corresponds to around ten million votes for Trzaskowski, a considerable achievement given how he joined the race at the last minute and was repeatedly attacked by the public...…As the dust settles after Poland’s close-run presidential election, supporters of the defeated challenger Rafał Trzaskowski, Warsaw’s relatively progressive mayor, are already wondering what he will do next.In the election on 12 July, Andrzej Duda, the incumbent president backed by the ruling right-wing Law and Justice (PiS) party, grasped a narrow with 51 per cent of the vote compared to Trzaskowski’s 49 per cent. This corresponds to around ten million votes for Trzaskowski, a considerable achievement given how he joined the race at the last minute and was repeatedly attacked by the public...WW…

The Marxist theorist Fredric Jameson observed in 1994 that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism”. By this, he meant that environmental apocalypse appeared more likely than the triumph of a systematic economic alternative. This unremittingly sober view, also adopted by the New Left Review’s Perry Anderson and the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, became known as “capitalist realism”.In recent years, a succession of authors have championed an alternative vision. Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism (2015) and Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’s...…The Marxist theorist Fredric Jameson observed in 1994 that “it is easier to imagine the end of the world than to imagine the end of capitalism”. By this, he meant that environmental apocalypse appeared more likely than the triumph of a systematic economic alternative. This unremittingly sober view, also adopted by the New Left Review’s Perry Anderson and the late cultural theorist Mark Fisher, became known as “capitalist realism”.In recent years, a succession of authors have championed an alternative vision. Paul Mason’s PostCapitalism (2015) and Nick Srnicek and Alex Williams’s...WW…

– nRelatedCloseéContent from our partners––, back to King’s – a hospital that had been completely transformed since my last visit. It was eerily quiet, and apparently entirely given over to Covid. There seemed to be a massive dissonance between the government’s blasé, laissez-faire public stance, and the complete reorganisation of an entire London teaching hospital, impressively ready as the likes of me started to arrive in great numbers. The hospitals knew; they did something. The government must also have known; it did nothing.– m”, or that you are not an expert so...…– nRelatedCloseéContent from our partners––, back to King’s – a hospital that had been completely transformed since my last visit. It was eerily quiet, and apparently entirely given over to Covid. There seemed to be a massive dissonance between the government’s blasé, laissez-faire public stance, and the complete reorganisation of an entire London teaching hospital, impressively ready as the likes of me started to arrive in great numbers. The hospitals knew; they did something. The government must also have known; it did nothing.– m”, or that you are not an expert so...WW…