The “mad / bad” debate gets everywhere.  We recently heard from a BBC Journalist on Twitter talking in the context of the Anders Breivik verdict asking whether he would be “mad / sane”.  This was done as if they are opposite things when in fact they are not even related concepts: the first is a […]

Are you a front-line police officer?  What is it you need to know about policing and mental health without having to look it up? I would argue that it is not that very much at all – here are 500 words to summarise the important operational parts of this whole blog – with links to […]

This is a picture of my son playing about with bits of my uniform: potentially, he’s the best human being ever to live, just like everybody else’s kids.  Definitely, the best thing about my life on earth – getting to be his Dad. I want to tell you a story about someone else’s child – […]