It’s quite extraordinary how many people think a crocodile will be so grateful you’ve fed it red meat for years that it’ll let you stroll away unharmed when you decide you want a break.

School based mental health initiatives provide the opposite of the intended effect. The most effective focus areas for schools? Academics & extracurriculars w/ caring teachers who inspire creativity, confidence & support resilience. The mental health industrial complex has cult like qualities- pushing kids attention inward, creating a focus on what may be wrong w/them, pushing emotional illiteracy in the name of 'prevention' & leading more & more vulnerable young people to identify as 'mentally ill'. We have created a cultural consciousness around mental illness that is driving more and more kids to harmful psychiatric drugs- turning episodic struggles into chronic health and mental health conditions.

Israel in one picture.

Was really lekka!! Thanks for all to make it so casual and fun! Merry Christmans 🇿🇦

Yes! This! I know that deep down you were appalled by Qatar’s human rights record when you sashayed over there for the World Cup. 💋

I’m now at end of life care - palliative care-and will be going into a hospice for the foreseeable - thanks to everyone who sends me love and support- you’ve been amazing

Britain has the best democracy money can buy & it matters not a jot whether Starmer or Sunak is in power. The corruption, the cronyism, the disdain for ordinary people are no different: ‘Labour given £4m from tax haven-based hedge fund with shares in oil and arms: The Labour Party’s largest-ever donation came from a Cayman Islands-registered hedge fund with shares worth hundreds of millions of pounds in fossil fuels, private health firms, arms manufacturers and asset manager’ opendemocracy.net/en/labour-…