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Thalidomide

January 2024

  • Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum<br>The journalist John Pilger stands beside the Ho Chi Minh Mausoleum in Vietnam, 1979. He is in the country to make a film about the country three years after the end of the war. (Photo by © Hulton-Deutsch Collection/CORBIS/Corbis via Getty Images)

    John Pilger obituary

    Campaigning journalist, film-maker, author and fervent critic of US and British foreign policy

November 2023

  • Parliament House in Canberra

    More public servants feeling bullied or harassed, survey finds – as it happened

  • Thalidomide survivor Lisa McManus

    After decades of pain, ‘thalidomiders’ welcome national apology but still mourn loved ones

  • Thalidomide survivor Lisa McManus

    Thalidomide survivors call on Labor to reopen lifetime support program to new applicants

  • Australian prime minister Anthony Albanese

    Australian government will apologise to people affected by thalidomide tragedy

April 2022

  • Bruce Page, Editor of the New Statesman, pictured in the newspapers office in London, Englans on Feb. 14, 1980 after the paper published a story related to alleged phone tapping in England. (AP Photo/Harris)

    Bruce Page obituary

    Leading light of the Sunday Times Insight team whose quest for truth exposed the thalidomide scandal

August 2021

  • Thomas Quasthoff.

    Thomas Quasthoff: ‘From birth, my mum felt guilty. I had to show her I made the best of my life’

    Born disabled due to the effects of Thalidomide, the exuberant star rose to classical music’s pinnacle – then quit at the peak of his powers. Now he’s back – singing jazz

March 2021

  • Rishi Sunak

    Thalidomide scandal: Sunak pledges lifetime support for survivors

    Joy and relief from campaigners as chancellor’s budget extends support that had been due to run out in 2023

September 2020

  • Harold Evans in 1982.

    The Harold Evans I remember was a great craftsman, a crusader… and a rival without peer

    Donald Trelford
  • ‘A staunch champion of all the best values of journalism’: Harold Evans.

    The Observer view on the formidable career and legacy of Sir Harold Evans

  • A small child affected by thalidomide in 1962.

    How Harry Evans took up the long fight for thalidomide families

  • Guy Tweedy, from Harrogate (right), with his ‘dear friend’ Harold Evans.

    Thalidomide survivors mourn Harold Evans, their hero and friend

March 2020

  • Putin A Russian Spy Story

    TV tonight
    TV tonight: a deep dive into Vladimir Putin, the man and the myth

    The first of a three-part series that charts the Russian president’s rise to power and ensuing 20 years of rule. Plus: The Corby Poisonings. Here’s what to watch this evening

March 2019

  • Thalidomide capsules

    Labor backs official apology for thalidomide survivors

    An inquiry also recommended affected families receive compensation and payments towards ongoing care

March 2018

  • Dr John Weston Smith with his daughter, Jane

    Other lives
    Dr John Weston Smith obituary

    Other lives: General practitioner and medical innovator

February 2018

  • Enoch Powell

    It isn’t just racism that should bar Enoch Powell from a blue plaque

    Letters: Thalidomide survivor Catherine Bulmer and Joseph Cocker on plans to commemorate the notorious MP in Wolverhampton

March 2017

  • A thalidomide survivor in therapy at Chailey Heritage in East Sussex.

    From the Guardian archive
    Makers of thalidomide to be tried - archive, 1967

    15 March 1967: The German manufacturers of the anti-morning sickness pill were accused of causing at least 5,000 babies to be born malformed

December 2016

  • Phillip Knightley

    Phillip Knightley obituary

    Journalist behind some of the Sunday Times’s greatest investigations

September 2016

  • Phil Spanswick , who was affected in the womb due to Thalidamide in the 1960s, lives with his wife Rachel and two children , Ellie and Marty, in Lambourne, Berkshire. 8/9/16. Photo Tom Pilston.

    As a thalidomider, ‘I feel I’m being treated like a scrounger’

    People born with limb defects due to the thalidomide drug are facing new penalties half a century on as their PIP disability benefits are cut

June 2016

  • People who take aspirin to prevent heart attacks seem to have lowered cancer rates.

    The cancer drugs in your bathroom cabinet

    Researchers have had promising results treating tumours with everyday medicines. So why aren’t the big pharma companies investing in trials?
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