June 2008 Archives
By Mike McNabb
Researchers in the US are now telling us that it may be better to maintain a stiff upper lip in adversity than to indulge in emotional catharsis.
Continue reading Crikey, the stiff upper lip is back.
By Mike McNabb
For the first time, a full Anglican wedding ceremony has been held for a gay couple. That both partners were clergymen added extra poignancy.
Continue reading Let's legalise gay marriage.
By Mike McNabb
Time was when you could depend on a Conservative, often one with associations with Wolverhampton South West, to make some sweeping statement about race.
Continue reading Race row Tory: A thing of the past?.
By Mike McNabb
How did you celebrate your 18th birthday? If you were in foster care you may have spent it packing your bags.
Continue reading A chance for foster care leavers to flourish.
By Mike McNabb
I do find the government's advertising campaign to reduce the nation's alcohol intake a tad tame. Worthy but tame.
Continue reading Women, know your place (or bring back the public information film).
By Mike McNabb
A review of the law on assisted suicide is well overdue, so it is welcome that two judges yesterday ordered one after hearing a case brought by Debbie Purdy, who has primary progressive multiple sclerosis.
Continue reading Assisted suicide: Debbie Purdy wins first round.
By Mike McNabb
The government's New Deal for Carers is worth £255m. Which seems a generous allocation of funds until one tots up the estimated savings to the UK economy made by the very existence of unpaid carers: £87bn.
Continue reading Carers benefit in everything but benefits.
By Mike McNabb
It's Carers Week and the timing may have a certain resonance for D-day veteran Bert Bowden.
Continue reading Carers Week irony for D-day veteran.
By Mike McNabb
With Cool Britannia now in cold storage, former care services minister Liam Byrne this week called for a national holiday to celebrate Britishness.
Continue reading Party like you're British, unless you're Scottish.
by Mike McNabb
They say that in London you are never more than 25 metres from an unwelcome scuttling rodent. Sometimes it feels you are never more than 25 metres from some would-be assailant wielding a knife.
Continue reading Gordon Brown twists the knife.
by Mike McNabb
To paraphrase Harold Wilson, a nanosecond is a long time in politics. And, for a nanosecond, I was nearly convinced that the prospect of a sandal-wearing, wishy-washy socially aware Conservative Party was for real. The softer face of "Call me Dave" nearly had me by the lentil bakes.
Continue reading Boris Johnson and his Tory chums embrace social exclusion.
by Mike McNabb
Drinking persistently in public has the feel of a challenge rather than a crime.
Continue reading Another Asbo opportunity for young people.
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