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The Paralympics celebrate the strength of disabled people – and so do all the protests that accompany them
In a dazzling and, at times, death-defying display, Paralympics 2012 opened in spectacular style as the images whipped around the world for the pleasure of billions. For those who were previously concerned that the ceremony would be a poor man's version of 'the main event' – The Olympics - such... Continue reading
Posted Aug 30, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Empathise with 'outsider' Julian Assange if you want, Mr Galloway, but don’t diminish sexual assault while doing it
George Galloway has always talked the big talk. It's his thing and he maintains it with some aplomb. Quite deliberately, he has positioned himself as a thorn in the side of the Establishment and I commend him for that. It's a worthy role, frankly. I wish more MP's had the... Continue reading
Posted Aug 22, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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So much is wrong with The London 2012 Olympics, but it isn't the stars of the show. They are role models.
HANDS UP! I admit that I have not always been happy about our country hosting The London 2012 Olympics. There are numerous reasons why, but here's a snapshot of grievances. There's the heinous expense incurred and the going over-budget, to the tune of billions, despite our Government carrying out some... Continue reading
Posted Aug 9, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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When Are You Going To Stand Up For Our Sick And Disabled, Mr. Miliband?
Dear Mr. Miliband, I am prompted to write to you having just watched these two programmes on the subject of ‘fit to work’ testing for sick and disabled people: Channel 4′s Dispatches (‘Britain On The Sick’) and BBC2′s Panorama (‘Disabled or Faking it’). This year, as a writer, I have... Continue reading
Posted Aug 2, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Clare's Law is designed to protect men and women from violent exes – but it wouldn't have saved me.
Today marks the introduction of Clare's Law. A 'right-to-know' system intended to protect men and women from abusive, and potentially deadly, partners by revealing their violent history. The scheme, piloted around the UK, is a tragic tribute to Clare Woods, a 36-year-old mother, who was strangled and then set on... Continue reading
Posted Jul 17, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Yes, Prime Minister, the London 2012 Olympics will generate billions in profit. Sadly, it will be business, not people, that will benefit
DURING a speech at Loughborough University last week, David Cameron was quick to trumpet the upside of being the host nation for the London 2012 Olympics. According to the Prime Minster's calculations, the games are likely to generate an extra 13 billion pounds for the UK economy over the next... Continue reading
Posted Jul 12, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Yes, supermarkets should give leftover food to those who are destitute, but why is it needed in the first place?
EVERY NOW and then, just as I did today, I send a silent apology out into The Universe. I'm not sure who or what receives it but I hope it goes some way towards acknowledging my personal regret for society leaving the world in such a pitiful mess for our... Continue reading
Posted Jul 3, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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The BMA vote for women to receive guidance when it comes to abortion. The worry is, who is going to supply that advice - and why?
THIS WEEK the British Medical Association (BMA) voted in support of 'non-directive counselling' for women contemplating abortion. The assembled members stopped short of making it actual policy but, nonetheless, the BMA's motion to recognise the need for 'neutral guidance' in abortion issues is a significant one. Proposed by Dr. Mark... Continue reading
Posted Jun 28, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Fathers are more worried than ever about their daughters future. Perhaps they should take more responsibility for raising them in the first place, then?
DO you know those polls that confirm something that you know with every fibre of your being to be true? Personally, I love the satisfaction of those 'told you so' moments. Gets the day up-and-running with gusto. So it was this morning that I experienced this sensation as I cast... Continue reading
Posted Jun 15, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Staffing the Diamond Jubilee with unpaid workers was not work experience but exploitation
SO the Queen's Diamond Jubilee has passed into history. The bunting has been packed away as the dazed and dimple-cheeked flag-waving masses have returned to work and the country's coffers are almost 300million lighter as a consequence of the celebrations. And, yes, that's the type of troopers we are in... Continue reading
Posted Jun 7, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Set alight in her care home bed, 96-year-old Edith Stuart deserves justice. It is unlikely she will get it.
Oh, what a sorrowful end to the life of 96-year-old Edith Stuart. The great-grandmother died in an elderly care home in Lancashire after her bedding was set alight. Despite two care home staff being arrested for her death - and subsequently released - no one has been charged with Mrs.... Continue reading
Posted May 31, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Oh, dear Dave. Now GP's have turned on you. Time for an exit strategy on the disabled, perhaps?
IN this political climate of sycophantic, 'scratch my back' money grubbers, it is always heartening to witness parts of the Establishment break from rank and stand up and prepare to be counted. So it was this week that I experienced a moment of brief elation when GP's at the British... Continue reading
Posted May 25, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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The Coalition have ploughed millions into a parenting website. How absurd. We need more practical, not virtual, advice.
YOU know it's going to be one of those days when it begins with news that David Cameron is launching a raft of ideas designed, as he says in all cherubic sincerity, to 'help the family'. His new, much-vaunted initiatives will include relationship advice and parenting classes (for parents with... Continue reading
Posted May 18, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Children in care are still vulnerable to widespread abuse, when is the law going to protect them?
THIS week we have heard one sorry tale after another concerning the abuse of children in the British care system. Heart-wrenching stories of young people, almost exclusively girls, who have been left vulnerable and exposed to the worst excesses of human nature. Oh, how horrified we have been to hear... Continue reading
Posted May 11, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Thank you Roma for being so candid about your personal situation, I appreciate that. Very insightful, indeed.
Commented May 10, 2012 on M.E. is comparable to AIDS, so why do so many people still deny it exists? at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
M.E. is comparable to AIDS, so why do so many people still deny it exists?
THIS week is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Week or, as it's more accessibly referred to these days: M.E. That may not mean a great deal to you. Certainly, it didn't to me. Oh wait, yes it did. Based on no personal knowledge whatsoever - fortunately neither I or my loved ones have M.E. - m...
M.E. is comparable to AIDS, so why do so many people still deny it exists?
THIS week is Myalgic Encephalomyelitis Awareness Week or, as it's more accessibly referred to these days: M.E. That may not mean a great deal to you. Certainly, it didn't to me. Oh wait, yes it did. Based on no personal knowledge whatsoever - fortunately neither I or my loved ones... Continue reading
Posted May 8, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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The Death Penalty has no place in a civilised society, when will America abolish it?
THIS Sunday, as part of their annual peaceful protest, the group Voices for Deathrow Inmates, will gather outside of the American Embassy in London. During the day-long protest, supporters will light scented candles, raise their 'Hankies of Hope' tapestry containing the names of American prisoners - some exonerated and some... Continue reading
Posted Apr 25, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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It's true, Ms. Dorries, Cameron and Osborne are out of touch - when are they also going to be out of office?
QUICK somebody pinch me. I've just had a moment when I'm not sure if I'm awake or in a lucid dream. I have just found myself agreeing, wholeheartedly, with Tory MP Nadine Dorries who has branded the leader of her party - David Cameron - and his Chancellor of the... Continue reading
Posted Apr 23, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Why are we so surprised that children are addicted to porn? That's the world they know
SOME reports make you want to fall to your knees, lift your eyes heavenwards and weep - just as I felt like doing when I read about the generation of children who are growing up addicted to online pornography. According to new figures from a parliamentary cross-party study, four out... Continue reading
Posted Apr 19, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Thousands of British children are taken into care each year, isn't it time we invested in prevention rather than cure?
THE murder of Baby P forced the country to stop in its collective tracks and take a long and hard look at the system we have in place to protect some of our most vulnerable children. What we found left us reeling. For 17-month-old Peter Connelly, life was mercilessly painful... Continue reading
Posted Apr 12, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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18 certificate on pop videos? When it comes to tackling child sexualisation, every little helps.
NURSE! I think there may be a problem here. I have found myself agreeing with a suggestion from our Prime Minister and it is disconcerting, to say the least. Here’s the cause of my conflict. In the on-going battle against the obscene sexualisation of our children, David Cameron has suggested... Continue reading
Posted Apr 10, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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The BBC has a duty to represent the British nation...but is it doing so?
THERE'S an interesting dialogue taking place on the internet. It can be seen in blogs, chatrooms and on social network sites and it runs something like this: why is the BBC TV news output so selective in what - and who - it chooses to cover? Does it not, say... Continue reading
Posted Apr 5, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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The Coalition want people with mental health issues to get working. Which jobs would that be then?
EVERY now and then I find myself shouting, uncontrollably, at the radio or television as someone is allowed to express views which perplex and dishearten me. This occasional burst of profanity is often accompanied by rapid jabs of my index finger as if the offending person is in front of... Continue reading
Posted Apr 3, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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Stop that. Be stronger. Rise above the odds. I have. My life was hell, you have no idea what my life was like. I am reaching out to you to say no you must not do that Elliott.
Commented Apr 1, 2012 on British people are committing suicide to escape poverty. Is this what the State wants? at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
British people are committing suicide to escape poverty. Is this what the State wants?
In the last few months of his life, Craig Monk attempted several overdoses and was described as 'vulnerable' by his family. An accident a few years before had resulted in the partial amputation of his leg and he had suffered unnecessary, and anxiety-inducing, obstructions in receiving state assi...
The knives are out for David Cameron. He should watch his back.
"IN politics, nothing happens by accident. If it happens, you can bet it was planned that way," Even decades on the insightful words of America's 32nd President Franklin D. Roosevelt still ring clear and true. In many respects, they make even more sense in these duplicitous times when politics is... Continue reading
Posted Mar 28, 2012 at Mail Online - Sonia Poulton
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