Month: July 2016

Last Friday (July 22 2016), news worldwide was dominated by an event in Munich which ended with 10 people shot dead and 27 injured. While the incident was ongoing, initial reports on live TV suggested that the shooting was being Continue reading A Bus, a Plane, a Truck and a Gun→

  An inquest, held in Cleethorpes Town Hall (left) this week, heard that 16-year-old Jay Matthews (top), a gifted student from Scartho in Lincolnshire, hanged himself in September last year. Jay’s mother Tracey told the inquest that Jay had been Continue reading Jay, aged 16→

  Yesterday afternoon, Mrs A and I went to a pub in Earls Court, London. There we met up with Bob Fiddaman who had travelled from Birmingham, and Leonie Fennell and her husband Tony (left) from Wicklow. We were joined Continue reading Launching the Pill→

  Children’s author William Sutcliffe (left) has recently written a book called Concentr8 (top), which he describes as “a satire on the ADHD epidemic.” Last week, in the Times Educational Supplement, William published a serious article, in which he expressed Continue reading The ADHD Epidemic→