No one can say how much depression is a genetically determined condition and how much it is a response to lived experience. Whilst genetics cannot be ruled out, lived experience is something that must be ruled in because depression, like poverty, is a whole lot more than just a personal weakness, problem or failing. If […]
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As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool returns to his folly. Proverbs 26:11
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,100 Friday 29 May 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, Life is a funny old thing, from birth to grave it’s a kind of comedy of errors. A child’s first step comes from trial and error, as does language, using eating utensils, body control, in fact everything a child […]
Another tory government; less appealing than being attacked by a rabid dog
A letter a day to number 10. No 1,033 Thursday 19 March 2015. Dear Mr Cameron, A benefits system that is predicated on inflicting suffering is an abomination, but it cuts far deeper than something that is abominable or morally repugnant. Over recent days it has emerged that terminally ill people who have more than […]
Fear and Loathing in Great Britain 