NEWS AND OPINION: The Sunday Times reports on the recovery of Emily Hand after her release as I Hamas hostage. She was held captive for seven weeks and has returned to Israel in an exchange programme between Israel and Hamas. Thomas Hand, her father, was …
It looks like this is a new trend which has caught the eye of the news media. According to The Times newspaper, “piggy walks” are proving popular in Wales. They are designed for stressed-out tourists and I suppose stressed-out British workers who want to de-stress. …
Researchers at Queen’s University Belfast have found that dogs are able to pick up stress in humans through volatile organic compounds in their breath and sweat. They can detect the difference in the breath and sweat of people who are stressed and calm. Clara Wilson, …
NEWS AND COMMENT-UK: This is a story about the forgiveness inherent in all dogs. Buddy, who looks like a cute little terrier, was used to get pit bulls into the mood for a fight and he was shot at repeatedly with an air rifle and …
Since the Uvalde school shooting in which nineteen children and two teachers were killed by a single shooter with a semiautomatic rifle, there have been seventeen other mass shootings according to the website THE TRACE. I knew that there had been a number since then …
A brand-new prison in Wellingborough, Northamptonshire, HMP Five Wells, will seem, to some, like a holiday camp. It does not sound like a prison. Everyone calls everyone else by their first name including the prison warden. There are no bars on the windows and the …
This is a video about prison inmates looking after cats and it is great. It is a win-win; both parties gain from it. When prison inmates look after cats they learn how to be empathetic towards others and to think of someone else other than …
“Cow cuddling is the new yoga” said a friend of The Times journalist Laura Pullman who has been stuck in New York State for the past year because of travel bans due to the Covid pandemic. The Dutch have long advocated cow hugging as a …
NEWS AND VIEWS: A woman, Amber Skylar, who served in the US military, having enlisted in the mid ’80s, developed PTSD because of sexual harassment and assaults throughout her military career. She said that she knew that she was a female when she was in …
