Will Theresa May keep her promise to deliver “A Better Britain?”
There has been a lot of talk about Theresa May occupying the centre ground and even threatening to undercut Labour with a speech that would not have sounded out of…
Cameron Blew it Over Brexit. So Lets Blame Corbyn
One narrative that is emerging to explain the outcome of the EU Referendum hinges on the claim that the Labour Party did not deliver the vote in its traditional northern…
Brexit? Blame it on Corbyn!
I am very angry with David Cameron. If the Remain camp is right and Brexit would be an unmitigated disaster for the UK why is he risking all our futures…
ADHD – An Independent Position
There was an interesting article in the Independent on Sunday (20/09/15) entitled “Thousands of children are being medicated for ADHD – when the condition may not even exist,” The author,…
Dr Lorna Wing, OBE 1928 – 2014
I learned today that Dr Lorna Wing died on Friday. Her contribution to our understanding of autism is unsurpassed. I think it was Dr Ekkehart Staufenberg, speaking at a National…
Autism, serial killers and mass murderers
A recent literature review by Doctor Clare Allely, at the University of Glasgow has been attracting a lot media attention. According to Google News there are press reports in Britain,…
Is Andrew Wakefield a fraud and a bully?
I had hoped that, after he disappeared into obscurity in the United States, I could safely ignore Andrew Wakefield, the disgraced former surgeon, who lost his licence to practise medicine…
What Doctors Don’t Tell You is wrong about autism.
What Doctors Don’t Tell You (WDDTY) is a magazine that claims it is “helping you make better health choices.” But it has drawn criticism from those like Andy Lewis who…
Tony Benn: the legacy
Herbert Shapiro is probably not that well known here in the UK. The son of Russian, Jewish immigrants he was a professor of history in the United States from 1964…
Susan Boyle and Asperger Syndrome
In today’s Observer Magazine there is an article about Susan Boyle in which she reveals her recent diagnosis with Asperger Syndrome. She found fame and fortune 4 years ago on…