Households, bubbles and hugging grandparents: Caring and lockdown rules during COVID-19.

Efforts to combat the COVID-19 crisis brought mountains of legislation and guidance to coerce or encourage people to stay at home and reduce the spread of the virus. During peak lockdown in the United Kingdom (UK) regulations defined when people could or could not leave their homes. Meanwhile guidance on social distancing advised people to stay within 'households'.

Second-tier reviews of complaints in health and social care.

There has been a flurry of recent government initiatives concerning how citizens should be able to take up grievances against the state. In the fields of health and social care, people have been expected to use internal complaints procedures to resolve grievances. Research in this area suggests that there have been problems with the existing complaints procedures and there has been particular criticism of the 'second-tier' review stage in both health and social care.

Seals and fisheries: A case for predator control?

The impact of seals on fisheries has been a controversial matter. This article examines the degree to which a new Canadian Royal Commission Report has been able to judge between the opposing views of the problem. It also examines the implications of the Commission's results for the more general question of controlling predators for the benefit of prey species, or more accurately, the human harvesters of those species.