There is no evidence that Covid vaccines are safe for foetuses. What is the view of neonatologists, paediatricians and paediatric nurses?

Do not pregnant women and foetuses differ greatly in their physiology and neurology?

Editorial opinion:

Interconnections commissioned the cartoon for this issue to help highlight the fact that there is no evidence to offer to pregnant women that a Covid vaccine will not damage their unborn baby. The

Editorial: Fish tanks, pandemics, handcuffs and triangles

'governments are slow to realise that the fish have started swimming upside down'

To keep tropical fish in a cool climate there has to be artificial heat and light as well as food and oxygen. When a fish tank shows signs of being an unhealthy environment, perhaps with signs of disease, then an inexp

Are governments asking us to choose between health and democracy? Surely, this is a false choice

It is my understanding that to keep ourselves and our children healthy we need education more than we need propaganda and media hype

Editorial Comment

It is a duty of a democratic government to educate its citizens. This can be by setting up teaching institutions (nursery onwards), licencing private

Children in 2021

Editorial: The food box in the cartoon refers to a UK scandal in which the government was condemned for giving inadequate food boxes to children in poverty. See:

'What am I supposed to make with this!' Parents on schools' meagre food parcels

But the bigger picture is of very meagre provision and opp

Should we give babies and children a Covid vaccine? My cautious mind says not

Are some pharmaceutical companies, scientists and politicians becoming jab-happy?

Editorial: I am not yet differentiating between all these new vaccines. For the time being I am grouping the various vaccines together as ‘Covid vaccines’ and thinking of them as a single entity in the international re

Editorial: Covid vaccine, justice, rights and compensation for damage. What is the situation in your country?

'If we allow governments to take away our citizen rights now, how can we be sure they will ever restore them?'

When we accept a Covid vaccine we are likely to be deprived of some of our rights for compensation if there is damage in the long term to ourselves or a loved one. This becomes an increasin

Rich Men, Prisoners and Gods

Editorial

The Guardian newspaper on 6^th February this year reported –

‘The coronavirus pandemic has wrought economic disruption on a global scale, but one sector has marched on throughout the chaos: big tech. Further evidence of the industry’s relentless progress has come in recent weeks with the n

Interconnections at the end of 2020

Interconnections, TAC and TAC Bulletin

Interconnections argues for teamwork around babies, children and young adults who are disabled, vulnerable or marginalised. There is more to do than we can achieve on our own. We need to take power with others.