Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd December, 2018) I have interviewed abused women, bereaved parents, torture victims and girls in the captivity of jihadis. I have seen […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Life appears to be cheap if you have learning disabilities
Published by The Times (26th December, 2018) It is hard to imagine someone dying from gangrene in London, their flat stinking from rotting flesh. Yet this is precisely […]
Disability / Health / Policy
At 14, Jade was sent to hospital – and 13 years later they still won’t let her out
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) Jade Hutchings was a child who adored acting and animals, friends and family. But she suffered from anxiety and […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Father of autistic girl treated like an animal and fed through a hatch sues NHS for torture and degradation
Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months in solitary confinement and fed through a hatch […]
Disability / Health / Policy
MPs to investigate scandal of locked up youngsters with autism
Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th December, 2018) A parliamentary committee is to hold special sessions to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities […]
Aid / Disability
How charities are corrupted by Whitehall
Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Profiteers of misery
Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS after […]
Disability / Health / Politics
The shame of imprisoning people for autism
Published by the i paper (29th October, 2018) Imagine that it was your son, your daughter, your sister, your brother. Taken away by the state against their will […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Shut away and threatened like animals
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Bedlam is still with us in Britain
Published by The i paper (8th October, 2018) Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marley’s music, spending time with animals and being […]
Aid / Disability
The Tories push disability rights abroad while ignoring them at home
Published by The i paper (23rd July, 2018) Although the post of development secretary is one of the easiest in the Cabinet, involving posing as a saviour of […]