Tag: society
Supermarket introduces ‘quieter hour’ for autistic shoppers
Overwhelming noise, lights and information are common barriers to autistic people feeling comfortable in shops. One UK chain is taking actio...
Society UK
Portraits challenge negative stereotypes around refugees
A new photographic exhibition features portraits of 10 refugees now living in the UK. They describe the lives they have left behind, the cha...
Archive Society UK World
From scrapheap to snapped up. How do you work when you’re chronically ill?
Matching businesses to job-hunters with chronic illnesses, the Astriid website highlights the UK’s ‘invisible talent pool’. We met the man b...
Lifestyle Society
Civil partnerships to be opened to opposite-sex couples
Heterosexual couples in England and Wales will be able to choose to have a civil partnership rather than get married, Theresa May has announ...
Society UK
What went right? July-September 2018
This summer has seen deadly wildfires and US withdrawal from the UN Human Rights Council. But, from the end of a decades-long conflict in Af...
Society UK World
Battle, fighting, beat: is the language of war really good for our health?
It can serve to rally and empower, but could ‘battling’ disease also be holding us back? Nathaniel Hughes, a medical herbalist, asks if it’s...
Lifestyle Opinion Society
