TAG / BBC
RESULTS
MENTAL HEALTH
One Woman’s 45 Years of Confinement Shine a Shameful Light on Psychiatry
Thousands of people with autism and learning difficulties remain locked up inside the UK’s insidious psychiatric system for no reason—and with little hope of release.
MENTAL HEALTH
Scotland’s Skye House Psych Hospital for Children Is a Horror House of Abuse
Forced drugging, restraint of patients, brutality, cruelty, mockery and abuse were recently dragged out into the open by a startling BBC documentary.
TRENDS
BBC and Reporter Issue Self-Congratulations for Finding a Story
What used to be considered Journalism 101—find and tell a story—has become so rare that it results in a first-person victory lap by a BBC reporter. Media consolidation has broken journalism.
HUMAN RIGHTS
Convicted Trafficking Ring Leaders Used McDonald’s as a Pretext for Slavery
An English outpost of the burger chain is the unwitting enabler of a profitable racket run by a gang of Czech criminals, trapping victims into turning over their income—and their freedom.
