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Disability & M.E.
- 25% ME Group
- Bad Cripple
- Broken of Britain, the
- Carer Watch
- Crip's Column
- Dreams at Stake
- Flash Says
- FWD/Forward (defunct)
- Invest in ME
- ME Agenda
- ME Community Trust
- NICE Guidelines blog
- Not Done Living
- Osler's Web
- Rellacafa
- Same Difference
- Severe ME Book
- Site that Breathes, the
- Surviving Severe M.E.
- Tymes Trust
- Wheelie Catholic
- Where's the Benefit?
- WildKat blog
Islamic blogs: brothers
- Abdusalaam Al-Hindi
- Adnan Tariq
- AE (Abu Eesa)
- Ahmed’s World of Islam
- An American Muslim
- Avari
- Bin Gregory Productions
- Bradford Muslim
- Chill Yo Islam Yo
- Dr.M’s Analysis
- Dunner’s blog
- HAhmed.com
- Hamza Tzortzis's blog
- Haq Islam
- Irrelevant Opinions
- Madhab al-Irfy
- Manrilla Blog
- Mas’ud Blog
- Mind, Body, Soul
- Mr Moo
- Muhabbat-ud-Deen
- Mujahideen Ryder (defunct)
- Naeem’s blog
- Peace, bruv
- Rolled Up Trousers
- Seeker's Digest
- Shahada
- Yahya Birt
Islamic blogs: sisters
- A Nightingale
- Egyptian’s Wife
- Ginny's Thoughts and Things (Old)
- Happy Muslim Mama
- Hijabi Apprentice
- Ibnat al-Hidayah: Daughter of Guidance
- Ify Okoye (ex Muslim Apple)
- iMuslim.tv
- In the Shade of the Veil
- Inner Reflections Transcribed
- Islam, My Inspiration
- Jamerican Muslimah
- Margari Aziza
- Muslimness
- Nicole Cunningham
- Nzingha’s soapbox
- Obscure Sanctum
- Old Muslim Woman in the Shoe
- Online Rihla
- Organica
- Outlines (new)
- Pitter-patter of Seagulls' Feet
- Rickshaw Diaries
- Rolling Ruminations
- Scream-free Muslims
- Shalom 2 Salaam
- Spirit21
- Tasmiya
- Tears of Realisation
- The Scent
- Tradicionalista
- Tranquilart
- TwennyTwo
- Waqt Well Wasted
Islamic blogs: groups & issues
Islamic links: general
- Amal Press
- Dar al-Mustafa
- DeenPort
- DeenPort (mobile)
- European Institue of Human Sciences
- Guidance Media
- Hanbali Forum Files
- Hanbali Text Society
- Iqra Islamic Publications
- Kitaba – Islamic texts for the blind
- Lamppost Productions
- Mama List of Islamic Links
- Media Monitors Network (MMN)
- New Islamic Directions
- Pro Hijab
- Radical Middle Way
- Shaikh Muhammad IH Pirzada
- SoundVision
- SunniForum
- SunniPath
- The Cult
- ummahpulse.com – Home
Islamic links: converts
Media monitoring
Other blogs
- A Fistful of Euros
- Bloggerheads
- Chicken Yoghurt
- Comment Is Free @ The Guardian
- Crooked Timber
- Exploring the World Through the Web
- Guardian Unlimited Blogs
- Juan Cole’s Informed Comment
- Lenin’s Tomb
- Londonist
- Not Otherwise Specified
- Pickled Politics
- Rachel from North London
- Tsuredzuregusa
- What You Can Get Away With
Tech links
Category Archives: M.E.
Which of these women looks sick?
ButYouDontLookSick.com is a website by a woman with lupus (she wrote the Spoon Theory I referred to in a previous post). In her biography, she says that, despite suffering a wide range of symptoms over the years, she had been … Continue reading
Review: Lost Voices
Lost Voices is published by Invest in ME, a British charity which concentrates on promoting research into the causes of, and a possible cure for, the debilitating neurological disease, myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME); they have organised conferences in London addressed by … Continue reading
Wakefield, vaccines and ME
Earlier today, Dr Andrew Wakefield, who published a study in the Lancet, a major British medical journal suggesting that the triple vaccine against measles, mumps and rubella (MMR) might be a cause of autism, was struck off the British medical … Continue reading
Guardian on ME and retroviruses, and other press coverage
First of all, this past week has been ME Awareness Week as I mentioned several times in my last article. This fact has got lost in all the election talk as might have been expected, although I’m sure many in … Continue reading
Jeremy Vine meets Kay Gilderdale again
This week is ME Awareness Week ([1], [2]), and a number of media appearances and articles have been scheduled, including two appearances from Kay Gilderdale (on Radio 2 today and, allegedly, on GMTV tomorrow morning) as well as from Criona … Continue reading
Me on the Late Show: transcript
Yesterday (Saturday) morning, I got to speak on the Late Show with Joanne Good on BBC London (94.9FM). She was doing a feature on bad comedy, specifically an incident in which Frankie Boyle, a former panellist on the BBC TV … Continue reading
Why don’t people abandon support groups with bad policies?
Recently I read an article by Jodi Bassett, a campaigner on ME issues who suffers from the severe form of that illness, on the Planet Thrive website (it’s also posted on her own site) entitled Myalgic Encephalomyelitis: The shocking disease. … Continue reading
Ricky Gervais on ME, and other bad comedy
Yesterday I had a brief exchange of tweets with Organica, who told me of her enthusiasm for the British comedian, Ricky Gervais, best known for writing and starring in The Office, his stand-up shows, and most recently the critically very … Continue reading
Gilderdale, Schiavo and models of disability
The other day I had a debate with Clair Lewis, a British disability activist and blogger, about the public reaction to the Kay Gilderdale case. Lewis was appalled by the show of public sympathy towards Kay and the way she … Continue reading
The real value of online friendships (Hadley Freeman revisited)
At the end of December there was an article by Hadley Freeman in the Guardian, characterising the past decade as a decade of fakery: fake science, fake politics and fake friendships connected only by Facebook. At the time, I criticised … Continue reading
Panorama and other media coverage of the Gilderdale affair
I’ve been following the media coverage of the Lynn Gilderdale attempted murder trial with some interest as I found it quite emotionally affecting, and have found most of the coverage to be sympathetic to Lynn’s mother, Kay Gilderdale, who was … Continue reading
The differences between the Inglis and Gilderdale murder cases
Earlier this week, a mother named Kay Gilderdale was acquitted of the attempted murder of her daughter Lynn in December 2008. Lynn Gilderdale had been bed-bound since the age of 14 with severe ME (myalgic encephalomyelitis). She was paraplegic (earlier … Continue reading