Published by The Guardian (8th August, 2014) I can still remember each second of that day just before Christmas when everything changed. The happy family lunch, then the […]
Disability / Health / Policy
What the NHS needs even more than money – a dose of kindness
Published in The Daily Mail (December 5th, 2012) Even today, 19 years on, I can still remember every second of the day my world crashed in. It was […]
Disability
What my disabled girl has taught me about life
Published in The Daily Mail (October 16th, 2011) My wife came home the other day from a shopping trip to buy presents for my daughter’s birthday. It was […]
Disability / Policy
For our disabled daughter, a way out of the labyrinth
Published in The Guardian (March 11th, 2011) Nothing prepares you for the birth of a child with profound and multiple disabilities. There is the shock, the depression, the […]
Disability / Politics
Cameron is not the villain in this tragic case
Published in The Times (January 21st, 2011) My daughter did not sleep last night. Granted, she is a teenager, so that might not be unusual. But rather than […]
Disability
Caring for our disabled daughter can be terrifying but she’s enriched our lives beyond measure
Published in the Daily Mail (October 5th, 2010) My daughter swam by herself the other day. Well, when I say swam, she floated. But by herself, her long […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Why I don’t believe that the NHS is sacrosanct
Published in The Independent (August 21st, 2009) It was a simple thing. Another blood test, some more investigations into whatever flawed gene or missing protein might be the […]
Disability / Politics
Iona and Ivan – a tale of two children and two families
Published in The Independent (February 26th, 2009) I awoke to the sound of my daughter, Iona, screaming yesterday morning, shortly after six. First the agonised screams, then coughing […]
Disability / Health / Politics
The hell I share with David Cameron
Published in The Spectator (October 22nd, 2005) My daughter suffered two seizures the other night. One was shortly after midnight, the other a couple of hours later. Having […]