Sea Service

Some people have asked why I care so much about seamen.

The Global Farm

Listened to The Global Farm and it raised so many issues.

Anger or Outrage?

Bafta awards were last night and although I managed to avoid watching the ceremonies I have heard a couple of comments this morning.

Andrew Wakefield

The subject of my post yesterday was childrens’ behaviour and autistic diagnoses, and then last night the BBC broadcast a programme on Andrew Wakefield, the doctor who first criticised the triple MMM vaccine suggesting it could cause problems.   

Willful Blindness over Special Needs?

A number of people made comments on the post relating to the behaviour of children with “special needs” earlier this week. This morning’s IPM podcast from the BBC was relevant to this and interesting to me for what wasn’t said.

Resilience or Acceptance?

Woke up to the news that there has been another terrible attack on innocent people, this time in New York. The immediate response from the authorities is that the people of New York are resilient. That same claim is always made about Londoners, Parisians, and any other group who suffer such an attack. But what is resilience?

A dictionary definition might be;

"the capacity to recover quickly from difficulties; toughness."

But are we truly seeing resilience, or could it be something else? 
Apathy?  Indifference?Acceptance? 
It is important that we understand the difference and I'm not convinced that a genuinely resilient society would be experiencing such high levels of mental health issues.

Human Rights

An individual, Nathy posting on the Wisbech Discussion Group recently made a claim that it was a "human right" to enter a stranger's home to use the lavatory. Such a ludicrous and laughable suggestion that it doesn't deserve any attention you might think? But maybe it offers a hint as to how both language and understanding of what might be expect from others have somehow become grotesquely distorted