Just a short note of apology for all of the email traffic over the last few days in relation to the riots. On reflection, I don't think the exchanges were really appropriate for the hen list. The reasons for the riots were clearly complex, although not at all justified. Having been both jostled by rioters and stopped by the police, I was pretty fed up with the whole thing. As Richard suggested last week, though, i suggest that we keep hen very much health equity focussed (a rule that I have admittedly breeched myself in the past). Just one clarification though - hen was never intended to be an advocacy network. It was established as a forum to discuss health equity ideas and research, and those who are not sympathetic with health equity arguments are just as welcome to comment as those who are, so long as they provide reasoned argument.
So, in short, we'll monitor things a little bit from now on, and nip debates in the bud if they are not directly health equity related.
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