My mother has lung cancer. At the end of last year, she began feeling breathless and tired, struggling with walks around the village I grew up in; in March, we found out a tumor was to blame.

In an effort to console Americans by proving that their country’s politics aren’t alone in being completely fucking mental, let me bring you this story from my homeland: A Conservative member of Parliament blocked a bill that would have made upskirting—surreptitiously taking photos up a woman’s skirt without her…

Theresa May, the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, is struggling. She’s dealing with the collapse of a major government contractor, a National Health Service in crisis, Brexit, and the slightly disappointing Channel 4 version of Bake Off. Every aspect of British life seems under threat. Is Britain, our green and…

During a particularly vigorous bout of “executive time” this morning, Donald Trump was watching a Fox & Friends segment about protests in London over the UK’s (free and universal) National Health Service and decided it was the right time to piss an entire country off with his stupidity again.

Piers Morgan, the renowned British TV troll, has made himself well-known for his anti-feminist and transphobic takes and, most recently, as a Donald Trump super-fan.

SHOCKING scenes in the UK’s House of Lords today as Lord Michael Bates, the Minister for International Development, said he would resign his post after arriving late to questions from his colleagues.

A U.K. government analysis leaked to BuzzFeed shows that under every scenario, Britain’s economic growth will be hit by an exit from the European Union, by at least two percent and as much as eight percent over the next 15 years.

One of Britain’s largest government contractors, Carillion, announced bankruptcy on Tuesday, leaving its 20,000 UK employees unsure of their future and causing layoffs at its subcontractor. The company was £1.5 billion in debt. Whoops!

Britain’s National Health Service is in the middle of a deadly and completely predictable crisis. As an unusually cold winter bites and Australian flu hits the nation, the NHS is facing immense pressure.

Welcome to WHAT NOW, a morning round-up of the news/fresh horrors that await you today.

As I wrote at the beginning of this week’s series on the NHS, my first political experience happened when I was two or three, when Mum took me to a rally to defend the hospital where I was born. Since 1992, that maternity ward, along with other services like pediatric services and critical care, has been under threat.

This week, Splinter is interviewing experts on what advocates for a universal healthcare in the U.S. can learn from the U.K.’s National Health Service (NHS), the system under which I was born and raised. Here are parts one, two, and three.

This week, as your resident Briton, I’m talking to experts on single payer healthcare and the UK’s National Health Service to find out what American advocates for single payer can learn from our very nice 69-year-old universal health system. (Read Part One and Part Two, too!)

All this week, Splinter is talking to healthcare experts about what advocates for a single payer system can learn from the National Health Service in my home country, the United Kingdom. Yesterday, we spoke with professor Martin McKee. Today, we’re talking with Rebecca Givan, an associate professor at the Center for…

The first time I ever appeared in the press it was not for something I wrote. It was a picture of my mum carrying me, about three years old, as she spoke at a rally to defend our local hospital, the Horton General in Banbury, Oxfordshire. For almost my entire life, the local authorities and the national governments,…