Not Enough Therapy to Go Round

Yet another story reporting GPs’ concern over the level of provision of therapy to patients – over 65% note that they aren’t able to offer treatment to patients presenting with depression within two months of seeing them. Of course this is concerning, but there is no mention (in this story) of the NHS’s preference for [...]

BBC + BNP = OK?

The growing controversy around the BBC’s invitation for British National Party leader Nick Griffin to appear on its Question Time politics forum programme this evening has many interesting angles. Essentially boiling down to people’s right to free speech, I’m interested in the assumptions that are being made about the capacities of the people involved (including [...]

In Praise of Grey Morality

I’ve long believed that there’s no such thing as common sense.  What seems sensible and logical to me may be deemed ridiculous and wrong by somebody else – and vice versa. The same can be said for many facets of life – I don’t believe there can be a single universal truth about how we, [...]