This year has been so hard for so many. In some ways the first lockdown still feels very recent. On 17 April I wrote a blog, ‘Turning our priorities upside down’, reflecting on what was happening then. You can find the blog here; https://conscienceonline.org.uk/blog/2020/04/17/turning-our-priorities-upside-down/. At the time of writing 14,576 people had died from Covid-19 […]
Category: Healthcare
International webinar marks Global Days of Action on Military Spending
I was very excited to be invited to speak at an international webinar ‘Move the Nuclear Weapons (and Fossil Fuel) Money‘ on 21 April. The webinar was organised by Abolition 2000, Basel Peace Office, Move the Nuclear Weapons Money, Parliamentarians for Nuclear Non-proliferation and Disarmament, and the World Future Council. Conscience worked with many of […]
Turning our priorities upside down
At the time of writing 14,576 people have died in hospital in the UK due to Covid-19. In addition many many have died from Covid-19 in the community. A growing number of health, and social care, and other public sector professionals are losing their lives after contracting the virus in the course of their work. […]