I used to be quite obsessed with playing a silly mental game with myself. Imagine we’re back in the year 2000 and in 2000, I switch on my radiogram and Karma Chameleon is playing. The mental …

– in the House of Lords at 11:51 am 23 November 2023

Long-term segregation and seclusion for people with an intellectual disability and/or autism in hospitals: critique of the current state of affairs

A new therapist directory for the UK has just been launched by James Esses. Just Therapy, as its founder explains, ‘is born out of a desire to go back to what therapy should be – effective, e…

It’s taken nearly 66 years, but I’m noticing that I’m becoming much better at how I use my energy to generate my reality and how I make choices about the opportunities that reveal…

It’s taken nearly 66 years, but I’m noticing that I’m becoming much better at how I use my energy to generate my reality and how I make choices about the opportunities that reveal…

The Mental Health Bill reaches its second reading in the House of Lords tonight. This is a quick post to explain why it won’t stop the detention of autistic people and people with learning di…

Growing up, if pushed, I would have claimed that my favourite chocolate treat was a bag of Revels. Not for one moment, could I have admitted that it was purely on taste grounds that Revels were my …

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Performative campaigning. I tweeted about this, just the other day. It gets my goat. Those people who believe they’re changing the world by repeating a tired hashtag. That’s the extent …

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Blooming heck - this post has been years in the making. I've lost count of how many, but we're talking decades. I had always known since I was a little kid that my Dad had been a very good non league ...

One of the great things about hearing the news that you're cancer free for the first time in six years, is that my mind has seamlessly moved to thinking about all the things I've put on hold for durat...