‘Information is key to defeating TTIP’ – Matt Carthy MEP

TTIP (Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership) is a trade deal currently being negotiated between the United States Government and the European Commission. Most readers will already know that, and this is in itself is the biggest change I’ve seen since I began working on this issue upon my election to the European Parliament in 2014. Many people…

Inequality Caused the AIDS Epidemic

35 years ago, on June 5th 1981, the AIDS epidemic officially began. Reports from LA emerged of unusual clusters of a form of pneumonia caused by the Pneumocystis jirovecii fungus in five gay men. In the following months the same was discovered among more and more men across the US, and a year later it…