Regular Columns

UK’s Hospitality Sector Needs a Vaccine of Hope

Oli Khan MBE, FRSA We know that there have been many casualties in this war on the global Covid-19 pandemic; its impact has been felt across different sectors, incomes and families – it has touched us all.Covid-19 and the pandemic lockdown have had a detrimental impact on restaurants and takeaways up and down the country, …

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Looking More Deeply at Humanity is key to Equality

Rasheed Ogunlaru There are multiple inequalities in our society: you see it play out in politics, business, in our homes, workplaces and communities. There are huge economic, class and social divides – and we have far to travel when it comes to gender, race, disability, faith, sexuality, age and other equalities. And while the last …

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This is the Time we all Should be Extraordinary to run the Affairs of Society

Hom Paribag FRSA Everybody says that this pandemic is like war. Given that the amount of death, danger and difficulty it has put us through all at once is unprecedented. In the lexicon of unprecedentedness it is more serious than the war that our last generation had fought. During the period of the Great World …

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Life During and After the Pandemic

Margret Laird The immediate aspect of the coronavirus pandemic which has assailed us since 2020 has been the striking contrast between the isolated and squeezed daily lives we have had to lead for fifteen months, and the immensity of theall-encompassing global pandemic which acts as a backcloth to our current lives.  As our normal social …

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Mental Health in The British South Asian Community

Saz Vora Talking of mental health does not come easily to anyone, but it is worse in the South Asian community. An issue that demands to be kept in check, never talked of, a stigma that harms the family’s reputation. My first engagement with psychiatric services goes back to the early nineties. The hospital referred …

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