IndiaPraveen Halappanavar: abortion inquest is tough but I feel vindicatedHusband of Indian dentist who died after being refused an abortion says he looks forward to 'bright days ahead'After a week listening to often harrowing testimony about how his wife pleaded with doctors for an emergency abortion, Praveen Halappanavar has said the inquest into her death has vindicated his version of events surrounding her final moments last autumn.
He said the admission by medical staff that they told the couple that his wife, Savita Halappanavar, would not be given a termination from the 17-week pregnancy that eventually killed her because " Read More...
The ObserverMental healthGay men are four times more likely to suffer from depression than straight men. The reason? According to therapist Alan Downs, it's a toxic cocktail of anger and rejection, which he calls "velvet rage". Here, he discusses his controversial self-help manual – plus, starting right, we hear five very personal "coming out" storiesThe window of Alan Downs’s therapy practice overlooks Santa Monica Boulevard and the heart of Los Angeles’s glossy gay ghetto, West Hollywood. Read More...
TV reviewTelevision & radioReviewYou’d have to have a heart of stone not to find Matt Berry funny – but somehow this one-off comedy fell flat. Perhaps we’re too depressed to laugh now?
Very much like Kenneth Tynan and Look Back in Anger, I could not love anyone who did not love Matt Berry. Whose heart, already full with Garth Marenghi’s Darkplace or The IT Crowd, did not lift further when a Todd Rivers or Douglas Reynholm scene came along. Read More...