Here, for Baroness Hale fans, is her maiden speech as a Parliamentarian: www.theyworkforyou.com/lords/?id=20... In it she speaks up for mental health law and children's rights. Perhaps we might see more of her in the forthcoming stages of the Mental Health Bill in the Lords...

This is a terrific response to the dreadful paper written by a group of psychiatrists who were defending the seclusion of learning disabled people in hospitals.

This grim article shows why institutionalised abuse of people with learning disabilities & autistic citizens drags on. Evidence is clear: long term segregation is harmful. This is a squalid example of a profession protecting its own back & not caring about patients www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

This is spot on. I've seen a lot of bad faith criticism of the new directory, but it's just a new parallel structure, offering clients a different choice of therapy from the current orthodoxy. What's wrong with that? criticaltherapyantidote.org/2024/12/05/n...

From earlier, what I've got in common with the Egyptian goddess Sekhmet: markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/c...

The day I went all Carpe Diem: markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2024/12/06/c...

Lucy Series looks at why the Mental Health Bill won’t stop Autistic people and people with Learning Disabilities being detained. thesmallplaces.wordpress.com/2024/11/25/f...

I would like to make it clear that I am not representing For Women Scotland in next week's Supreme Court hearing. I appear to be blocked by India on here @indiawilloughby.bsky.social and Twitter, otherwise I would have asked directly for this misinformation to be corrected.

For lovers of snow ❄️ I give you the greatest snow ball fight in history. In 1854 300 people including stock brokers went into snowy battle at Liverpool’s Exhange. The Liverpool Mercury reported “Hats flew away, By the force of the ball, From heads that were grey, Or with no hair at all”.

2 Facebook memories from this day, 14 years ago. Two hours between the posts. The first post is about Hillingdon sending me the details of the hospital in Wales, they were planning on sending Steven to. Bleak and despairing.

Childhood chocolate & the 1974 Dutch World Cup team. markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2024/11/17/r...

What’s up Human Rights Advocates!

We’ve got a few videos on our You Tube channel now including this one On ‘What Good Looks Like’ youtu.be/TXxlh7m0gA0?...

Paranoid/Anxiety dream from last night. LA introduced a policy whereby they charged £150 every time they contacted us. Quickly accumulated a large debt as the Direct Payment team were emailing daily about needing a photo of Steven, every hour, on the hour....

In which I try to merge 1970s Southall Football Club & the modern trend of performative campaigning. markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2024/09/27/t...

Hello! I am a barrister, writer and educator specialising in mental capacity law in England (but interested in law around the world). My website is www.mentalcapacitylawandpolicy.org.uk.

An emotional, but uplifting day. markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2024/08/21/d...

Great account to follow. A real eye-opener.

A short story of my exciting Saturday. markneary1dotcom1.wordpress.com/2024/08/12/b...

A draw. 1-1. In the first half we were terrible. Caught myself thinking "what the bloody hell am I doing here?". Dramatic improvement in the second half. Very tasty cheeseburger. Excellent programme. Had a "50 years ago this week" section & I remembered the game like it was yesterday.

Two weeks on & Steven is still processing The Pet Shop Boys concert - "Dad - Chris Lowe just sings one song. Chris has to rest his voice."

The memory is playing tricks. I don't remember Alan Devonshire and Chris Hutchings playing in the same team.

Tomorrow, I go to my first Southall FC home game in 25 years. I'm beside myself with anticipation.