Jennie Walmsley
Jennie Walmsley is a journalist and communications consultant. She has worked as a TV and radio producer for the BBC, making programs on women’s soccer in Iran and a tour of Auschwitz by Israeli Arabs as well as cults in Denmark. Before enrolling in university, she was already running down politicians and senior industrialists to paint a picture of Britain in the 1980s in a series she hopes is buried deeply in the BBC archives. She has published fiction, and enjoys gardening, particularly the joy of loppers and the creative destruction they inspire.
From Georgia to India: traveling 9,000 miles for heart surgery
The biggest, most efficient cardiac care hospital in the world is in India. Americans already go there. Will we flock to it when it sets up shop in the Cayman Islands?...
Horses suffering in UK
Steven Spielberg’s movie “War Horse” – the story of a horse in the British cavalry in World War I – was released in the UK over the weekend, attracting thousands of cinema-goers in a country that prides itself on being a nation of animal lovers. But a specially commissioned report by the Independent on Sunday ...
“De-pinkifying” toys for girls in the UK: a worthy cause?
One of the world’s oldest, most famous toy shops, Hamleys, in London, has been accused of gender apartheid in how it sells toys. The company’s flagship store attracts more than 5 million tourists a year, and enjoys a reputation comparable to that of FAO Schwartz in New York. Until recently toys being were sold on ...
Brutal “honor attacks” on rise in UK
The brutal phenomenon of so-called “honor attacks” is on the increase in the UK, according to new research. The crimes, which include severe beatings, acid attacks, and sometimes murder, are committed by family members against women deemed to have brought shame on their families. Under the UK’s Freedom of Information Act, a campaigning group has ...
An Austrian student takes on Facebook
Facebook and what it does with its members’ information is raising hackles again. First, there was the backlash to CEO Mark Zuckerberg’s unveiling of “frictionless” sharing of information between users. Two congressmen, backed by a number of consumer groups, have called on the Federal Communications Commission to investigate how Facebook monitors users’ activity online. And ...
Quenching South Pacific’s thirst
A US Coast Guard vessel set out from Hawaii this week to deliver 36,000 gallons of fresh water to two of the tiniest island territories in the world – Tokelau and Tuvalu. These are some of the lowest lying inhabited areas on earth, remote coral atolls half way between Hawaii and New Zealand. Surrounded by ...
Flood control, birth control
They are the worst floods to hit Thailand for decades. More than three quarters of the country has been affected, including the capital, Bangkok. Millions of acres of farmland are underwater. Hospitals have closed. Factories are destroyed. Hundreds of thousands have fled their homes. Two hundred and forty four people have lost their lives. The government ...
