Published by The Daily Mail (21st May, 2024) Colin Smith, a boy who had developed a bruise on his knee a few months after his birth, was the […]
Health / Policy
Trans teenagers are being failed
Published by The i paper (16th April, 2024) Jason Pulman was the oldest of five children, a talented artist who ‘‘loved all the silliness in the world and […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Britain’s sordid human rights scandal
Published by The i paper (25th March, 2024) During my journalistic career I have spoken to traumatised people around the world suffering terrible consequences of war, earthquakes and […]
Health / Policy
A strike to shatter the idea medics are deified protectors of the ‘sacred’ NHS
Published by The Daily Mail (3rd January, 2024) A profession that pledges, ‘First, do no harm’ should have ethical qualms about risking patients’ welfare. But last year, the […]
Canada / Disability / Europe / Health / Holland / Policy / World
Why I believe Dame Esther is profoundly wrong on assisted dying
Published by The Daily Mail (22nd December, 2023) Calls for a change in the law relating to assisted dying rose to a crescendo this week. Yesterday Labour leader […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
Contempt for ordinary people in the corridors of power
Published by The i paper (6th November, 2023) The Covid inquiry last week performed an invaluable service. It seemed as if we were watching a savage new political satire […]
Health / Policy
Prejudice towards trans youth such as Alice Litman are making us lose sight of people’s humanity
Published by The i paper 25th September, 2023 Twice this month I have been stopped in my tracks by a BBC radio interview with a woman grieving over […]
Health / Policy
The grotesque deeds of this angel of death expose yet again the culture of denial, delay and secrecy that scars the NHS
Published by The Daily Mail (24th August, 2023) Stephen Brearey, lead consultant in the unit in which Lucy Letby murdered seven babies and tried to kill six more, […]
Health / Policy
Letby inquiry will be same old story
Published by The i paper (21st August, 2023) A nurse killing newborn babies in a hospital is shocking and unpredictable. Lucy Letby seemed so ordinary, so familiar, so like many more […]
Health / Policy
Public pay the price for corrosive strikes
Published by The i paper (14th August, 2023) There has been little to celebrate in recent political discourse, but one welcome change is belated recognition that the National […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
A grotesque denial of human rights is dragging on
Published by The Times (7th August, 2023) When Franco Basaglia took over a huge asylum in Trieste in 1971, the charismatic psychiatrist found a place that felt like […]