Politics, tech and media issues from a Muslim perspective
Earlier this week the Panorama documentary featuring Kay Gilderdale, titled “I Helped My Daughter Die”, won the Medical Journalists’ Association’s “best broadcast TV” award at their Winter Awards 2011 (the MJA don’t actually announce...
Yesterday afternoon there was a debate on ME at Westminster Hall, an annex to the House of Commons, whose main participants were Ian Swales (Lib Dem, Redcar) and the Tory health minister Paul Burstow....
Last week, the Countess of Mar, a long-standing advocate for the ME cause in the UK’s House of Lords, asked a question regarding why public records on ME dating back to the 1980s and...
This morning the papers reported that Riven Vincent, the mother of a daughter named Celyn (pronounced Kellin, Welsh for holly — and some newspapers thought the public was too stupid to process that, so...
This is, as far as I remember, the first time I’ve ever posted a review of a year to my blog, and that’s probably been because no old year has been as different from...
A couple of weeks ago I read an article in the Guardian by Hannah Pool about sexual harassment, which according to the author was a common experience for women in public places which she...
Since I’ve been a kid I’ve been something of a road geek. I was always fascinated by roads and road signs, road numbers, street lights and so on (although the last faded when I...
BBC Three – Jeff Brazier: Me and My Brother (available until Saturday, UK only) I just finished watching this programme on iPlayer; it features a BBC presenter named Jeff Brazier trying to bully his...
Last weekend I witnessed an ugly incident on Facebook, which led to a relationship breaking up and the two erstwhile partners both retiring from the site (and Twitter) over accusations that seemed flimsy at...
I got a reply from someone at the BBC Complaints department, which (much like the response to my earlier complaint about male rape jokes) wasn’t so much an apology as a self-justification. It included...
I got a comment earlier today from WildKat (Kimberley Robbins) in response to a post I’d made in August about the incident in Saudi Arabia in which a man who had been paralysed in...
After the Gilderdale story made headlines this past January (and the other coverage of assisted suicide and mercy killing that happened around the same time), I was expecting both stories to be featured in...
Earlier today I got an update from the family of Emily Collingridge, a lady from south London who wrote a book on living with Severe ME, based partly on her experiences (she has been...
Last Thursday I went to my GP in New Malden (or rather, one of the GPs at the clinic I’m registered at), and asked him to refer me to those who might be able...
Parents tell how every day is a battle to care for teenager struck down with chronic fatigue syndrome – The Daily Record "Chronic fatigue syndrome", in this context, is M.E. (the symptoms described are...
BBC News – Tetraplegic man's life support 'turned off by mistake' This story really did shock me — I didn’t mention this earlier today in case it upset friends of mine but someone else...
Earlier today I saw a comment on Astrid van Woerkom’s blog in response to a criticism of the “communication shutdown” wheeze from various autism chairites. There has been much criticism of the scheme here...
New Report: Assisted Suicide – how the chattering classes have got it wrong The Centre for Policy Studies (which is, as I understand it, a traditionally Tory-aligned think tank) has published a report by...
I saw this "Communication Shutdown" event through a critical article highlighted on FWD/Forward — a scheme to raise awareness of autism by "shutting down" social networks for a day (1st November): WHAT IS COMMUNICATION...
Joyfully kissing her beautiful baby boy – the girl branded too stupid to be a wife or mother | Mail Online I've been following this story on and off since I first heard of...