Why does government refuse to regulate Botox?

Why does government refuse to regulate Botox?

While the government plans to regulate alternative and complementary therapists, should it not also offer a similar scheme for the treatment of Botox? The government has refused to regulate botox treatment, ignoring a recommendation from the Expert Working Group on...
Desperate Iraqis sell their children

Desperate Iraqis sell their children

Families are not only been ripped apart by death and destruction in war-torn Iraq, but have resorted to selling their children, according to this disturbing Aljazeera report. It is feared that children are being trafficked for the sex trade and the organ transplant...
Two portraits of a gay icon and mad arsonist

Two portraits of a gay icon and mad arsonist

Whenever I visit one of my friends, my head instantly swivels in one direction – to the two fabulous drawings on each side of her fireplace. I find them so captivating. But then the subjects are two very extraordinary men. Full marks if you have identified them...
Divorce by text message

Divorce by text message

Would it have made any difference if Iqbal Abul Nasr had answered a missed phone call from her husband? Would he still have sent her a cruel text message stating: “I divorce you because you didn’t answer your husband.� I doubt it. In line with Shaira law, men do...
The magic of swans

The magic of swans

There is something very magical about swans, particularly this time of the year when thousands of graceful Bewicks and Whoopers migrate from Arctic Russia and Iceland to spend the winter at the Wildfowl and Wetlands Trust in Welney, close to where I live. When two...

A generation of sickees

There are more young people under 35 unable to work because of stress and depression than on the dole, according to today’s FT. The report says that more than half a million young Britons are officially too sick to work and claim incapacity benefits. This figure...