An analysis of minimum wages in the top 30 wealthy countries, trends in benefits for those not in work, how poor and rich income groups benefit when economies grow, the…
Author: anthonycostellonet
Robin Dunbar is an Oxford cultural anthropologist who classifies human groups. The ‘sympathy group’ is the smallest social group outside the family. Fifteen or so people who share a common interest,…
‘Bonding’ between a mother and her newborn infant was a concept first described by DW Winnicott, the paediatrician turned psychoanalyst. In the 1970s and 1980s, Marshal Klaus and John Kennell in…
Courtesy Thinglink Toilets are the unfashionable part of human development. People avoid talking about them. Sanitation and hygiene were the worst performing Millennium Development Goals. In 2017, many more people…
Twenty five years ago Professor Malik Mubbashar, psychiatrist and vice-Chancellor of the University of Health Sciences in Lahore, Pakistan leaned back in his leather chair and asked me an intriguing…