This month, the UK government announced £300million funding for the provision of mental health interventions in schools and colleges. Funding for mental health resources are always a good thing - as is this. However, I would suggest that before schools and colleges go rushing off to … [Read more...]
Footballer’s behaviour revisited
Since the Saville abuse enquiry, we know how abuse can be "hidden in plain sight" and we know now how prevalent it is across society. We also know how damaging it was to those affected by it - both physically and mentally, often causing irreversible mental health problems. The latest revelations … [Read more...]
Kingston Hospital: Even Aneurin Bevan couldn’t have envisioned this…
If Aneurin Bevan had had a utopian vision for his National Health Service, it still wouldn't include the kind of care that I have received over the past week at Kingston Hospital in Surrey. I have been a patient elsewhere in my life and I have worked independently at hospitals within the NHS, … [Read more...]
Saluting Ferndale Roots…….
If you went strolling in the streets where you live, this evening and asked yourself "what could I do to improve the area for everyone?" and then listed what you could do to contribute to that - what would it be? When I do the stroll, it's usually in someone else's community on my travels. I … [Read more...]
You’re nobody till somebody……wants your vote
Yesterday evening was a cold, windy, rainsoaked event and I was weighing up whether to complete my journey home, stop at a restaurant or pop into a local pub for a warming whiskey. I think it was the gale that blew me home rather than any decision I made. As I turned the corner I saw a group of … [Read more...]
Suppression is a natural state
According to the Study of Adult Development by Psychiatrist George Vaillant: "Of all the coping mechanisms - suppression alters the world the least and best accepts the terms life offers".George Vaillant The very word "suppression" in a positive context would, I imagine, send a shiver down the … [Read more...]
Interview with Dennis Skinner
I interviewed Dennis Skinner,MP for Bolsover, at the House of Commons in April 2013: I'm sure I'm not the only person to hear Dennis Skinner sing - but I may be the only one to hear him sing in the canteen at the House of Commons. We are talking about his mother, Lucy, and how twenty … [Read more...]
Interview with Alan Johnson
I asked the Rt. Hon Alan Johnson MP to be the first person to be interviewed for the page and he generously agreed. Rt. Hon Alan Johnson MP Interview – 11th April 2011 Because I have always held firm to the conviction that childhood circumstances do not determine the adult and that if a child has … [Read more...]
Nora Malone almost went to Trinity College Dublin
When I was a child in a house spilling over with dozens of Uncles and Aunts, some not much older than ourselves - I always pleaded to go to Aunt Nora's or Aunt Bridie's house. Aunt Nora's house because of the order and stability I found there and Aunt Bridie's because she let me play with the "pea" … [Read more...]
Rylan Clark And Paula Hamilton – The Road To Self-Awareness
Because I am very interested in people and, in particular, the behaviour of people in the context of group dynamics, I can not help but tune in at some point to the Big Brother TV Series on Channel 5. Currently, the "celebrity" edition of Big Brother is on air and along with many of my colleagues … [Read more...]
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