David Batty

Amid the failure of an attempt to bring in new laws allowing assisted dying for terminally ill people with less than six months to live, campaigners

A British crew member who became ill after a suspected outbreak of hantavirus on a luxury cruise ship in the Atlantic Ocean is to be medically evacuated, officials have said.

Briton to be evacuated from MV Hondius with Dutch colleague, after both began suffering respiratory symptoms

Spain says MV Hondius will be received in Canary Islands and passengers and crew treated before repatriation

From photos of a mass “die-in” by Aids activists in Trafalgar Square, London, in the 1990s to plushie breasts, lips and vulvas hand-stitched by

London exhibition explores how care and protest improved rights and dignity of those living with disease

Thirty years after my parents were pressured into placing me with an adoption agency, I finally reconnected with them. But it was nothing like the neat stories you see on TV

Guardian news editor David Batty spent years longing to meet his birth mother. But his reunion with the woman who had been forced to give him up was far from the fairytale he had imagined. He explains why the legacy of forced adoption continues to cast such a long shadow

An estimated 185,000 babies were taken from unmarried mothers in England and Wales between 1949 and 1976. I was one of them, says Guardian news editor and writer David Batty

After my adoptive father died in November last year, my adoptive siblings found a short story by Enid Blyton among his possessions.