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The wrong time to end the mask mandate
The Sun’s front page, 6th July 2021 Yesterday, the government announced that most if not all the current rules and restrictions aimed at preventing the spread of Coronavirus, including the requirement...
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On imposing medical treatment without consent
A girl receiving an oral polio vaccine in Egypt (source) The other day the Muslim scholar and blogger Musa Furber published a brief article on his blog answering claims from some Muslims that Muslim...
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Time for legislation on disability and late abortion
Heidi Crowter Last week the High Court in London rejected a suit from a woman with Down’s syndrome, Heidi Crowter (right), to overturn an aspect of the abortion law in the UK which allows a baby to be...
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Autism, female diagnosis and trauma
Roselands Clinic, New Malden, where my diagnosis took place. Yesterday the feminist psychologist Jessica Taylor (of Why Women Are Blamed For Everything fame) made a series of tweets about the rise in...
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This scandal has already broken
Whorlton Hall, County Durham, where staff were filmed abusing patients in 2019 “It’s a massive scandal just waiting to break” (Morning Star, 6th Jan 2022) This article, by the feminist writer “Dr EM”,...
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Travesty of justice, travesty of science
I recently bought and read the autobiography of Jennifer Msumba, an autistic YouTuber, musician and film-maker who lives at a group home in Florida who spent seven years at an institution in...
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Ukraine, disabled people and the war
A young girl, presumed unable to speak, speaks with the camera crew Last Tuesday the BBC showed a 24-minute documentary, Ukraine’s Stolen Lives, about the treatment of people with real or apparent...
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Muslims, parents and nursing homes
The last couple of days there has been a big row on “Muslim Twitter” about people putting their elderly parents in nursing homes and whether that makes them bad Muslims or ungrateful children or...
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What is ‘snitching’? When is it bad?
Anthony Parker of Third Eye Visions Earlier this week the blind YouTuber Anthony Daniels (right), whose channel is called Third Eye Visions, did a video on ‘snitching’ and on whether it is OK to...
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Rosie Jones: Am I a Ret*rd, reviewed
Rosie Jones in Mission: Accessible, filmed in Manchester in 2021 (available on YouTube). This documentary by the comedian Rosie Jones, about the online abuse and trolling she received a lot of on...
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