Expert Comment
'I was there' - 30th anniversary of the assassination of Indira Gandhi
Tomorrow marks the 30th anniversary of the assassination of Indira Gandhi in 1984, she was killed by her Sikh bodyguards. In the following days violence broke out and around 8,000 Sikhs were killed in North India, with more than 3,000 in Delhi.
Professor Swaran Singh from Warwick Medical School was a trainee surgeon in Delhi at the time and has first-hand experience of this tragic moment in India’s history. As a sikh, Professor Singh was caught up in the violence, grief and confusion of the days that followed Gandhi’s death and as a result turned his back on his surgical career and set up a makeshift clinic in a relief camp. He finally left Delhi in 1990 and has recently returned to find out what happened to many of the people he helped.
Prof. David Evans - Possible that a successful GSK Ebola vaccine might help in this outbreak due to underestimating the number of cases
Despite the recent involvement of UK and US military personnel there remains a massive shortfall in the resources needed to control the outbreak in West Africa. Current reported cases and deaths are probably a two-fold (or greater) underestimate - This being the case, it is still possible that a successful GSK Ebola vaccine might help in this outbreak.
Prof Swaran Singh and Prof Max Birchwood - The new mental health wait time target is crucial and parity with cancer is overdue
Nick Clegg has unveiled waiting time targets for people with mental health problems in England. Professor Swaran Singh and Professor Max Birchwood, from Warwick Medical School, have carried out research into early intervention services for mental health.
Professor Peter Ferdinand - Both Hong Kong authorities and protestors feel they have "legitimacy"
The confrontation between demonstrators and the authorities in Hong Kong bears many of the same features as that in Beijing in the summer of 1989. Both sides seem to be edging into intransigent positions that will make mutual accommodation more difficult.
Dr Gabriel Glickman - No campign needs to swiftly find a way of countering negativity
Dr Gabriel Glickman of the 神马福利影片's Department of History argues: Images of domineering English imperialists or scrounging Scots unable to stand on their own two feet have been with us for centuries, and they have pockmarked this campaign. But the ‘no’ campaigners need to show that this is at best a partial view of British history.