This week, the UK’s Supreme Court ruled that opposite-sex couples should have the right to have a civil partnership as well as marriage. This has been a controversial ruling that has been resisted...
I recently joined a virtual job fair for autistic career seekers that included a connection to employers like Microsoft and other tech companies. I noticed one thing immediately: the recruiters were...
I was a pretty sensitive child, so when I heard that babies were being murdered in their thousands, and that this was absolutely legal, I was horrified. Murdering babies couldn’t possibly be...
Éva is 26 and working towards her masters in business administration. Although she hails from the same corner of the country as the prime minister, and even attended his old alma mater, she is not a...
In December of 2017, I had an opportunity to review Welcome Home, a collection of short stories centered on adoption edited by Eric Smith. The stories collected here represent such a wide spectrum of...
Robert Jenkinson, aged 28, had mental health and substance misuse problems. On August 30th last year, he saw his care co-ordinator (the mental health nurse or social worker who managed his mental...
Ági is an intelligent, bright-eyed 18-year-old with a passion for life, luxury items (she can afford or will borrow money for), music, going out, and a gaggle of friends. A friendly, outgoing teen,...
Newnan is a small Georgia town with just 38,000 people. I know only two things about Newnan: a few of my friends from college called it home, and I pass it on my way to visit my mother. Newnan...
I am a firm believer in the power of technology to do good for the world. In the earlier days of the web, when you could go on The Hunger Site and click a button to feed somebody who was hungry, I...
Until this week, many people had never heard of “incels”, a term short for “involuntary celibates” that describes a certain kind of man. It’s a man who has never had sex, or who has trouble...
