June 11, 2006
by Liz
Comments Off on Seeing what we look for?
The recent incident in which two brothers were arrested (and now released) after an early moring raid on their house interested me. Not only because it was a terrorist story which from the outset didn’t feel quite right but because the police had acted as a result of intelligence and surveillance. Continue Reading →
April 9, 2006
by Liz
Comments Off on Presumed Guilty
A few decades ago the joke about justice was that an accused person was innocent until proved Irish. For Irish, now read “bullied parent”. The current child protection procedures and the proposed laws to penalise parents for their children’s bad behaviour provide a charter for child bullies. They can be as anti social as they like and their parents will be punished – not them. It is a power too far. Continue Reading →
March 20, 2006
by Liz
Comments Off on Asylum and Immigration
Is the popular uproar about failed asylum seekers and illegal immigrants the last bastion of acceptable racism? I’ve only met one person that was, I later learned, an illegal immigrant and I bet none of the people making political capital from this serious issue would have minded his presence here one bit. He was a white, middle-aged American, fairly well to do with a pleasant personality and he came to work in the UK. Continue Reading →
March 12, 2006
by Liz
Comments Off on Miracle drugs
I saw a letter on the BBC website written by a number of neurosurgeons. They were writing to Patricia Hewitt the Health Secretary asking her to reconsider providing certain drugs for recently diagnosed brain tumour sufferers on the NHS. They said trials showed the drugs were extremely effective and beneficial. One of them was Temozolomide. I know it. It was prescribed to my husband in December 2000. Continue Reading →
