Last night I had the privilege of attending the memorial for the “oldest Rebel” Harry Leslie Smith. I had been lucky enough to correspond with Harry about my admiration for him and what he was doing for all of us in the future generations. He taught me how to muster myself up to fight for […]

The disabled and the poor are expected to sit back and let MPs vote. Witnessing the rise of homelessness, stories of disabled people taking their lives. People who are working cutting back their food intake so that the food they get from the Foodbank stretches further. Let’s say that again, while people who are elected […]

I met a human being, with a history I don’t fully know. They have shared some intimate details of what life is like for them. I have to admit, as an elected member of a council, not this one, I was appalled. My safeguarding alarm was ringing loudly. And I couldn’t do anything to help. […]

I haven’t posted for a while and it’s due to many factors, the biggest of them is the changing state of my spine. I could focus on that, the idea that I might not return to work, not being with some of my family at Christmas or not being able to travel as freely as […]