Published by The i paper (1st January, 2024) Two days after Christmas, the South Korean actor Lee Sun-kyun, best known for playing a wealthy patriarch in the Oscar-winning […]
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 […]
Immigration / Policy / Politics / Social care
Sunak predicted his party’s downfall
Published by The i paper (11th December, 2023) Rishi Sunak was right about one thing when he won the top job little more than a year ago. Declaring […]
Disability / Housing / Policy / Politics
How can a Labour MP block flats for people with learning disabilities?
Published by The i paper (13th November, 2023) In a Westminster world stuffed with ambitious party hacks and entitled creeps who see compassion as a dirty word, the […]
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 […]
Crime / Policy
Our prisons are inhumane, as I’ve seen in Wandsworth
Published by The i paper (11th September, 2023) Daneil Khalife is back behind bars after police pulled the 21-year-old former soldier from a bicycle as he pedalled along […]
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 […]