Published by UnHerd (2nd December, 2020) When Michael Gove sought to shore up support for the Government’s polices on lockdown, he invoked the most sacred idol in the […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Fix the care system and end these inhumane detentions
Published by The i paper (30th November, 2020) Susie* is 16 years old. She has autism and special needs. And like so many others with similar conditions, both […]
Health / Policy
Incompetence, conspiracy – and how our culture of NHS worship is costing lives
Published by The Daily Mail (25th August, 2020) Today Harry Richford should be a bundle of energy, full of curiosity and mischief like any other toddler approaching his […]
Disability / Health / Policy
‘They are making people worse’
Published by The i paper (13th July, 2020) It is almost two years since I spoke to the distraught father of Beth. She was a 17-year-old who loved […]
Health / Policy
If we only ever sanctify the NHS, its harrowing failures will never be cured
Published by The Daily Mail (9th July, 2020) Daniel Mason was born half a century ago without hands, with missing toes, a malformed mouth and impaired vision. From […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
A very deadly inequality
Published by The i paper (6th July, 2020) The investment guru Warren Buffet famously said that only when the tide goes out do you see who has been […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Shame of Covid-19s forgotten victims
Published by The i paper (11th May, 2020) Britain has one of the highest coronavirus death rates in the world, there is carnage in our care homes and […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy / Social care
The NHS can be bad for your health
Published by The i paper (27th April, 2020) I have returned from my daily burst of exercise, walking around local streets. Many of the houses I passed have […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
The doctor’s dilemma
Published by The i paper (30th March, 2020) The death toll rises each day with the grim predictability of an exponential curve. Medical chiefs say we will do […]
Covid19 / Health / Policy
How sick we cannot test those people who save us
Published by The Daily Mail (19th March, 2020) The immense scale of this crisis is terrifying to comprehend, not least for those politicians and scientists who find themselves […]
Covid19 / Disability / Health / Policy
Disabled people and their carers left living in fear
Published by The i paper (16th March, 2020) Eleven years ago, when swine flu rampaged around the planet, Katie Clark and her family were among those to suffer. […]