Published by The ipaper (31st December, 2018) As Angela Merkel enters the twilight of her extraordinary political career, she can look back on a nation transformed by her […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
Stop the state from stealing our children
Published by The Mail on Sunday (23rd December, 2018) More distraught parents of teenagers and young adults with autism and learning disabilities locked up in secure hospital units […]
Disability / Health / Policy / Social care
I have seen so many horrors – but this is barbarism
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 […]
Drugs / Policy
Theresa May’s tacit support for drug reform
Published by The ipaper (17th December, 2018) Theresa May has a lot on her plate at the moment, despite surviving last week’s attempted coup by her party’s right-wing […]
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 […]
Economics / Immigration / Policy / Politics
May has proved she can’t be trusted over immigration
Published by The Times (20th November, 2018) Theresa May has been clear about one thing from the start on Brexit: she saw the referendum result as an endorsement […]
Health / Policy
Harriet Harman challenges the section of autistic patients
Published by The Mail on Sunday (18th November, 2018) Harriet Harman is leading a chorus of alarm from MPs over the scandal of youngsters with autism who are […]