regulation – Politics and mental health

Sunday 27 October

As the Middle East crisis worsens, the Sudanese civil war continues to be under-reported, as Putin boosts his flagging army with North Korean manpower and the US election is imminent, the world certainly looks a dangerous place. Meanwhile, there’s plenty going on here to occupy us but there’d be much more time and space forContinue reading “Sunday 27 October”

Sunday 28 July

Three weeks into the new government and as perhaps we should have expected, the media are still expecting Labour to have already cleared up the shocking mess left behind by the Conservatives. And asking how this or that would be paid for – something the media rarely did with the Tories. What’s emerging very stronglyContinue reading “Sunday 28 July”

Saturday 13 August

Assailed, as we are on a daily basis, by news of deepening crises in the water and energy industries, in the NHS and cost of living, which put further downward pressure on our mental wellbeing, it surely beggars belief that we are expected to tolerate for weeks on end a ‘zombie government’ (in the wordsContinue reading “Saturday 13 August”