Blog PDF Volumes

I realised a while ago, to my near-total horror, that all this work and writing I’ve done over the last six years was all on this BLOG but it wasn’t backed-up anywhere else! I know, I know … I’d always just assumed that WordPress wouldn’t collapse on me and (touch wood), it hasn’t so far. […]

Mental Health v Criminal Justice

It’s all too often a contest, of sorts – or perhaps a stand-off?! … two massive paradigms of state intervention, constituted and resourced for a certain set of separate public purposes, governed by separate laws that were (substantively) written around the same time, in the early 80s; and yet in so many important respects, they […]

Be Kind, Be Patient

You may have seen that internet meme bouncing around on social media, above? This post is essentially about how this advice may be more important than other things we spend much longer talking and worrying about. I’ve been caused over the years to read a lot of books that have been pushed in my direction, […]