This BLOG has been some months in the thinking and making, including the need for me to pin down several people for a discussion. I’m grateful for their help, but I’ve decided to leave them un-named at this stage: because I want in no way to associate them with criticism of the ideas I sought them out […]

I recently saw a police training video on social media from Epilepsy Action UK, aiming to raise awareness of the forty or more different kinds of epileptic seizures. The video begins with what is known as a focal seizure, in a nightclub based scenario where the obvious point is being made that assumption should not […]

Today is the Opposition Day debate in the House of Commons and I type this as I watch it on my iPad.  Firstly, it was amazing to see that as Luciana BERGER, the shadow minister for mental health, introduced the debate, the first interjection from another MP was to highlight the pressure on policing, arising […]