Media Watch On Thursday, 18th December, the Mental Health Bill 2025 received Royal Assent and is about to become law. This has been well received by the NHS, the Royal College of Nursing and the National Autistic Society. "It is a change long in the making," says Tim Nicholls, former Assistant Director of Policy, Research, …
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Being disabled in a big city I really enjoyed my few days in Belfast, a trip for two to celebrate our 42nd wedding anniversary. We finally got here after being Covided off three years ago. We cancelled a lot on our wedding anniversary due to Covid, Belfast in 2020, the West Indies in 2021, which …
There is more than meets the eye here. As well as the official agreement of 71 paragraphs put out by the United Nations, there have been individual agreements made, such as the agreement of China and the USA, which is significant because these are the world's two largest polluting countries. But these are not the …
I remember the start of lockdown, people working from home and putting in the same hours in front of a computer in the back bedroom found that by missing out on the daily commute they could achieve a better work/life balance than they could previously. Meetings over Zoom and Teams meant that contact with coworkers …
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We have now finished the first week of COP26. COP stands for Conference of the Parties. The 2021 Glasgow meeting will be the 26th meeting, which is why it's called COP26. It will be attended by countries that signed the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) - a treaty agreed on in 1994. A …
Friday last week was a dark day for politics. Conservative MP Sir David Amess, Member of Parliament for Southend West was stabbed whilst holding a constituency surgery at Belfairs Methodist Church Leigh-on-Seaand later died at the scene. Police said there were possible links to Islamic extremism. Sir David AmessCopyright free image from Wikipedia Commons This …
It has been a bad week for the British police, and the Metropolitan Police in particular. Serving Metropolitan Police officer Wayne Couzens was given a full life sentence last Thursday, 30th September 2021, for charges including the false arrest, kidnapping, rape and murder of Sarah Everard. There are things about the case which give me …
Axe-man 'Arry and Burglar Bill This is one of those maths problems that has people with names in alphabetical problems.Axe-man 'Arry and Burglar Bill have been captured fora theft they both did, both are in separate rooms in the police station, they have two choices in getting off: They can either say they know nothing …
Last week I wrote an open letter to Kirklees Metropolitan Council about receiving Afghan refugees and referred to the Huddersfield area's long and good history in accepting refugees, linking to the blog post on social media. I got a reply on Twitter. Well it was a link to the latest update from the council. Afghan …
This blog post takes the form of an open letter to Kirklees Metropolitan Council. The lower panels of the World War I memorial window in Holy Trinity Huddersfield, showing the Belgian flag to the right in the middle panel. There is a refugee crisis going on caused by people wishing to leave Afghanistan following the …
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