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In recent weeks, the Department of Health and Human Services, led by prominent antivaccine activist Robert F. Kennedy, Jr., has announced a barrage of measures that are likely to reduce COVID vaccine access, leading to a swirl of confusion about what will be available for the 2025–2026 season. HHS officials did not respond to a request for comment for this article.
Unions are seeking a pay rise of £3,500 or 6% – whichever is higher – for Cafcass staff in 2025-26 in a claim designed to address past real-terms cuts in wages. Napo and UNISON lodged the claim last week, saying it was also designed to address what they said were growing pay gaps between family court advisers (FCAs) and local authority social workers, sustain productivity and morale at Cafcass and provide appropriate reward for what the unions alleged had been increases in workloads.
Based on interval-style bursts of fast and slow walking, Japanese walking was developed by Professor Hiroshi Nose and Associate Professor Shizue Masuki at Shinshu University in Matsumoto, Japan. It involves alternating between three minutes of walking at a higher intensity and three minutes at a lower intensity, repeated for at least 30 minutes, four times per week.
Chinese authorities decriminalised homosexuality in 1997, but same-sex marriage is not legal and social stigma is widespread. Despite a period of relative relaxation in the 2000s to mid-2010s, rights groups say recent years have seen a crackdown on the community’s spaces and freedom of expression.
Foster youth took part in numerous focus groups and met virtually to produce a sweeping 86-page report with the Minnesota nonprofit Foster Advocates.
For this reading list, we have collected books that interrogate this rise from a left-wing perspective. We hope they will inform and bolster you as we enter a dangerous new political era.
