Our deafening silence on HIV in the UK

“When you tell peopleyou have HIV, you kind of think everyone is going to be ok, because it’s the 21st century. That’s actually not the case.”

The modern day good Samaritans

“I thought I might see some vomit, one or two twisted ankles – at worst, a bloody nose from a drunken punch. Little did I know that, by one o’clock, I would be on my knees in the middle of a busy North London road, attending to a man who was critically ill after somebody stamped on his head stamped during a violent brawl.”

Testing Questions

“How can you be at home with your pet dog and then go into work and poison one?” an animal rights campaigner asked. I tried to find out.

Africa and the curse of the land rovers

Just like useless gap year students, African aid is well meaning, but little attention is paid to where it goes.