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Attraction doesn’t depend on surveys

I heard the discussion on the Vanessa Feltz show this morning about the recent “study” done by an evolutionary psychologist, named Satoshi Kanazawa, who is based at the London School of Economics, which purports...

The McCanns and Scotland Yard

Does Every Child Matter? – itsmotherswork’s posterous I had meant to post a longer entry about this issue, but was too busy watching the debate on The Big Questions (“Does Britain Have a Problem...

Hardest Hit demo and stupidity on Radio 4

I took a day off work today to attend the Hardest Hit demonstration by disabled people against cuts (some masquerading as “reforms”) to benefits for disabled people. The march itself was pretty short, running...

ME Awareness Week: the dangers of GET

I've seriously injured a patient — head of nursing at University of Ottawa — because she insisted on the Graded Exercise Therapy programme. We put her in the physiotherapy hospital, which is a great...

Election days should be holidays

Last week we had local elections in the UK, along with a referendum on whether to change the voting system to the Alternative Vote, which is currently used in Australia (and to elect party...

No more Yuppie Flu!

This post is part of Blogging Against Disablism Day 2011. I was originally inspired to write this post when I saw Eamonn Holmes's bumbling performance while interviewing Kay Gilderdale, whose daughter Lynn committed suicide...

Royal Wedding post

OK, well I’m up London — right now, in the Apple Store in Covent Garden — where I had intented to take some pictures of the scenes surrounding the royal wedding. I wouldn’t have...

Blogging Against Disablism day, 2011

1st May this year is the sixth Blogging Against Disablism day, and thanks to Claire Wade for reminding me of it — I intend to take part this year myself. (I am composing it...

Unite, but follow me

Yesterday I decided to install the new version of the Ubuntu Linux distribution on my main computer, after a disaster with another distro (or rather, with some new software they had tagged as "stable"...

No, ME is not polio

Yesterday I was having a discussion on Facebook with an anti-vaccinationist who referred me to various websites which outlined the various supposed conspiracies that have gone on to keep parents in the dark about...

Devastation in Colombia

There is an article in today’s Guardian about the ongoing civil war in Colombia, in which government-sponsored paramilitaries kidnap and murder ordinary people in the countryside and dress them up like FARC guerrillas, so...

Watch who you call a ho

For the second time in about a month, I’ve come across the same person I know on Facebook throwing the word “ho” (whore) around at women who are not, in fact, prostitutes. Last time,...