While most British cops are not allowed to carry guns, the use of tasers has somehow slipped through the net. Nobody seemed to vote on it, yet the police carry them regardless. However, it has been...
Being 29 was a rough year for me. I had had severe and enduring mental health difficulties since my teens and I was also dealing with overwhelming grief. As well as support from mental health...
Along with red postboxes, double-decker buses and old-fashioned phone boxes, black taxis are kind of iconic when tourists think of a holiday to the UK. London, in particular, is characterised by the...
Sometimes, you just can’t bloody win. You are disabled and you face abuse and hatred because you are on benefits when you are not well enough to work. At some point, you come off benefits and get a...
In March of this year, a pregnant woman went to a police station in London to report that she had been kidnapped and raped in Germany for a period of six months. The police sent her to Havens, a...
On Wednesday of this week, the grandly titled Chancellor of the Exchequer set out the UK government’s financial plans for the coming year and beyond. With his trademark red leather briefcase in...
As a long, long list of men in the film industry accused of sexual harassment and abuse gets ever longer, and Trump seeks to silence his accusers, politicians in London are being put under the...
The UK General Election in June of this year turned around with some quite unexpected results. One of these, on the other side of my city, was the former Deputy Prime Minister Nick Clegg being beaten...
Some years ago, I sat on a bench in the city centre and the man sitting next to me looked at me, looked at my walking stick, and said “Get off your arse and get a job”. I told him I had a job. He...
Being disabled or chronically ill can be pretty exhausting. From the moment you wake up, there are battles to fight that non-disabled people don’t take into account. Will the energy it takes to...
