Breaking Britain returns, this time it’s the schools
Why is so much of Britain’s infrastructure literally falling apart?
13 Sep 2023
News
Press release on the Autumn Statement.
Lib Dems condemn “chaotic and incompetent” budget
17 Nov 2022
Sewage in our Rivers
The sheer quantity of raw sewage being dumped into Britain’s rivers and coastal areas is a scandal and a disgrace.
14 Sep 2022
Battling to give mental health sufferers the same treatment as other patients
EARLIER this week I heard about an email alert concerning a "weird" looking person seen in the road. I think it meant to say "someone behaving suspiciously".
CJC
7 Dec 2014
Rugby needs Green Rangers says Cllr Neil Sandison
Rugby has a rising population, a falling grant from central government and a welcome increase in concern for its environment.
7 Dec 2014
DWP didn’t listen – a missed opportunity to make Employment and Support Allowance fit for work
Yesterday should have been a big day for claimants of Employment and Support Allowance (ESA). It offered two clear opportunities for the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) to commit to clear steps to improve this vital benefit, which supports people who are too ill or disabled to work. But yesterday was a chance missed.
7 Dec 2014
More needs to be done to help Reading’s 12,315 carers
On Carers Rights Day, Liberal Democrat Reading East Parliamentary Candidate Jenny Woods said more needs to be done to support the12,315 carers in Reading who are the unsung heroes of the system.
7 Dec 2014
CARERS ENCOURAGED TO TAKE UP FINANCIAL AND PRACTICAL SUPPORT
Local MP Mark Hunter spoke out on national Carers Rights Day to support Carers UK's campaign urging people caring for ill or disabled loved ones to find out about the financial and practical support they are entitled to.
7 Dec 2014
Making Space for the Meaning in Madness
This week, the British Psychological Society publishes its 180 page reportUnderstanding Psychosis. Like it's 2000 predecessor, it is a polemic game changer, guaranteed to challenge dogma, wobble professional pride and provoke debate on what we can and can't claim about psychosis. Psychotic experiences, like voice hearing and experiencing persistent, unusual beliefs, are framed here as part of a continuum of experience, a normal variation rather than as radically other. Most importantly, it is a report that gives hope - an emphasis that recovery from distressing psychosis is not only possible, but probable. This hope is crucial, for schizophrenia as an idea still sits in the collective conscious as the archetypal terrifying, irrational, out of control mental condition. This potent notion of schizophrenia is one that trumps any other diagnosis, and colonises the heads of those suffering and their relatives. As psychiatric survivor Sally Edwards writes, "I was labelled with all sorts; eating disorders not otherw
6 Dec 2014