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Race To The Bottom Commissioning

April 9, 2013 by

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Writers are obsessed not just with words but with wordcount. That innocuous, humble figure in the drop-down menu or nestling innocently in the bottom left hand corner of your screen should be a record of achievement. Instead, too often it’s a curse, an ever-tightening straitjacket on the creative flow. Blogging at least allows me to stretch […]

The Casual Cruelty of the Bedroom Tax

March 4, 2013 by

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I recently spoke to a mother who was being hit by the Bedroom Tax. Because her son spends part of the week with her and part of the week at Dad’s, his bedroom in her home was declared a spare room. I was so appalled I asked her how this came about. This is her […]

#RadFem2013 Supporter’s Online Tirade of Hatred and Abuse

February 25, 2013 by

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[Trigger warnings: transphobic abuse, rape, cyber-bullying] In June of this year will be the Radical Feminism 2013 conference in London. Their event got cancelled last year after a storm of controversy when they decided to ban transgender women who were born as men. As far as I’m concerned that’s a ridiculous and immoral decision that […]

The Socialist Workers Party: Sex, Power and the Abuse of Trust

February 24, 2013 by

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[Trigger warnings for rape and sexual exploitation] I’ve blogged a couple of times about the scandal engulfing the Socialist Workers Party, an organisation I regard as closer to a cult than a political party. Just to recap, a senior figure in the SWP was accused of rape by a female party member. Rather than call […]

The Didn’t Stop the War Coalition – Ten Years on From Feb 15

February 16, 2013 by

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It occurred to me earlier that yesterday was ten years since the global protests on February 15th 2003, when millions of people across the world took to the streets to demand a halt to the then-imminent invasion of Iraq. It was an expression of protest unprecedented in history. It also accomplished precisely nothing. In other […]

Bloody Foreigners!!!

February 8, 2013 by

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As I progress through my training, I’m starting to become more aware of the sociological paradigm in which I, and all health professionals are practicing. Some of the things I’m seeing disturb me.

Death Pathway 2: Return of the Controversy

February 5, 2013 by

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I originally published a post on the LCP in November 2012 before the independant review was announced

Oxfam calls for crackdown on tax evasion to tackle UK poverty

January 31, 2013 by

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Today brings the welcome news that Oxfam have joined calls for more to be done to tackle tax evasion in the UK, and for the money recouped to be channelled into reducing poverty. They estimate that the tax coffers lose out by £5.2 billion a year due to offshoring of assets by wealthy individuals. They […]

Adoption: Threats And Divisions As Gove Loses Patience

January 27, 2013 by

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We’ve known for some time now that as far as working with children in care are concerned, adoption is the government’s absolute priority. A series of announcements over the past 15 months or so have focused on different aspects of the process. Last week came the latest and potentially most radical, where failing authorities could be stripped of […]

The Socialist Workers Party and the Collapse of Cults

January 20, 2013 by

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This post is rather off-topic for this blog. However, I’ve recently been doing some family therapy training, which involves a lot of discussion about how systems change. Although I’ve kept the theorising to a bare minimum here, this post is fairly heavily influenced by the thinking I’ve been doing about systemic theory. I’ve just come […]

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