Should Martha’s rule extend to Legal Aid?
Tuesday, 12 September 2023
According to BBC Online The parents of a teenager who died in hospital two years ago are calling for patients to be given the right to an urgent second opinion, if they feel their concerns are not being taken seriously by medical staff. Martha Mills, who would have been 16 on Monday, died after failures
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Why no apology to mothers by British Government for forced adoptions?
Sunday, 20 August 2023
When walking in the beautiful countryside near to where I live one morning, I was enraged by a news item which appeared on the Radio 4 Today programme, the headline for which was that, unlike the Welsh, Scottish, and Irish Governments, Rishi Sunak, on behalf of the British Government, had refused to apologise to mothers
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Is this the start of COVID child deaths?
Sunday, 06 August 2023
To quote LBC News on 2nd August 2023 “A man has been found guilty of murdering his 10-month-old stepson who was found dead in his cot with dozens of injuries, while his mum is guilty of allowing his death. Jacob Crouch was found dead in his cot at his Derbyshire home in December 2020 and
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Was Sinead O’Connor an abuse survivor or a genius, or both?
Friday, 28 July 2023
The untimely demise of Sinead O’Connor at the age of 56 on Thursday 27th July 2023 has inevitably led to much discussion of her life, and achievements, both mainstream, and controversial, so determined was she to speak her mind, tell her truth, and campaign for what she believed in, no matter the cost, something which
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If Child Abuse Images were created by Artificial Intelligence, Who is to Blame?
Thursday, 06 July 2023
It is reported that child sex offenders are now making fake images of child abuse victims using Artificial Intelligence software, which, once properly instructed, can generate an image of a child in a pornographic pose, when that image is not real but fake. The questions are, can anyone be prosecuted for producing such images, who
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My Old Blogspot Blog with Stories Still Relevant Today.
Sunday, 02 July 2023
It just shows how easy it is to forget things as you get older. I had forgotten all about how I started writing blogs back in 2011, which is now 12 years ago. Blogs had been going for a while but social media was nowhere near as developed as it is today. I chose Google’s
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Is the Government going backwards by taking power away from the Parole Board?
Saturday, 24 June 2023
I have been roused to write an article about how the government are usurping the powers of the parole board when it comes to deciding upon the release of certain prisoners from custody of the state. It is fundamentally wrong to act in contravention of the age old jurisprudential principle of separation of powers. Trying
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The Truth, the Whole Truth, and Nothing But The Truth, so Help Me… by Peter Saunders
Saturday, 10 June 2023
This book by Peter Saunders is available on Amazon for £11.99 (Paperback) and is a must read. I have to disclose a self interest in that I know Peter, and share a lot of the experiences mentioned in the book. A lot of the content, however, was new to me, and I found extremely interesting.
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What do commentators think of the Home Office response to the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse Report?
Thursday, 08 June 2023
When I first read the Home Office reaction to the report of the Independent Inquiry into Child Sexual Abuse, which took a long time, so convoluted was its style, that I wondered whether my initial reaction was a correct one, and would align with others. You can read my earlier article here. Whilst hindsight is
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