Embed from Getty ImagesOr so the results page of an online quiz tells me. It adds that only my doctor can know for sure, but I do exhibit a lot of ADHD symptoms. I think it would have been hard not to be given that answer if you completed the quiz and suspect that was the point of it. Because I have long been sceptical of the ADHD diagnosis in children and suspicious of what lies behind it. There are no physical tests for its presence: rather it is diagnosed through an adult assessing a child against a checklist of ...
It was back in 2009 that the Kids for Cash scandal broke in Pennsylvania, but this development appeared on AP News only yesterday: Two former Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pay more than $200 million to hundreds of people they victimized in one of the worst judicial scandals in U.S. history. U.S. District Judge Christopher Conner awarded $106 million in compensatory damages and $100 million in punitive damages to nearly 300 people in a long-running civil suit against the judges, writing the plaintiffs are "the tragic ...
The end of August has rolled around and shortly, as every year since I can remember, the usual suspects will likely be complaining that exams have gotten easier because young people all over the country have done what they are supposed to do and passed them. This is all part of the usual having a go at the 'youth of today' that these people always engage in. Whether it's 'nobody wants to work' or 'takeaway coffee is why you can't afford a house' or 'exams are getting easier'. It's all part of the same attitude that seeks to either blame ...
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"I won't vote Tory again": how water crisis is hitting the Conservatives in the Blue Wall
The Guardian reports: The water crisis in Surrey is threatening to turn lifelong Tories into revolutionaries. "The whole thing needs stirring up, but short of storming the gates what do you do?" asks exasperated retiree Mary Barnby after days of on-off water supplies in the village of Cranleigh... Barnby is furious with the company, on the day it announced a hosepipe ban. "Some of the water bosses should face jail for this rather than £2m bonuses." Pointing to one of the water tanker drivers, she says: "That chappy there doesn't have bonuses - he doesn't even have a Portaloo." The ...
As if the UK Tory Government plan to send genuine asylum seekers to Rwanda was not morally indefensible enough, it turns out that ministers ignored warnings by one of its own advisers that Rwanda tortures and kills political opponents, but continued with plans to send refugees there anyway. The Mirror reports that an email disclosed to the High Court said "arbitrary detention, torture and even killings" are "accepted" methods of maintaining control in the east African country: Both candidates hoping to become the next Prime Minister have vowed to continue with the scheme, which has been branded "unworkable" and "unethical" ...
Wed, 18:08: Alaska Sampler 2014: Ten Authors from the Great Land, eds Deb Vanasse and David�Marusek https://t.co/Rp1pQsVlvE Wed, 20:48: RT @AP: Two Pennsylvania judges who orchestrated a scheme to send children to for-profit jails in exchange for kickbacks were ordered to pa... Wed, 21:22: Daily #185 1️⃣2️⃣⬛0️⃣4️⃣ 1️⃣3️⃣⬛1️⃣4️⃣ 0️⃣5️⃣⬛1️⃣5️⃣ 2️⃣0️⃣⬛0️⃣6️⃣ 1️⃣6️⃣⬛1️⃣7️⃣ 0️⃣8️⃣⬛1️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣8️⃣⬛0️⃣9️⃣ 1️⃣0️⃣⬛1️⃣1️⃣ https://t.co/1E46GFXTgD #sedecordle Thu, 08:31: Told you so: Scientists face hard choices as UK prepares to abandon EU projects for years to come https://t.co/YZ1P2qRYxg Thu, 10:45: Mary Lou McDonald and the forgotten people of the Northern Ireland 'Troubles'... - Slugger O'Toole https://t.co/8mNgkctYg4 Remembeeing the victims. </ul
On Tuesday night, around 30 passengers alighted from the Avanti West Coast service from London Euston to Glasgow at Oxenholme. Alas, the station was closed. One of the passengers described the situation . They could scale the 8ft high gate, walk across the live tracks or "pick somewhere to try and sleep on a pavement until the morning". Some reports suggest some passengers "took to climbing the 7-foot spiked gates and fences surrounding the station in order to get out." Just when you thought @AvantiWestCoast couldn't serve their customers worse, they lock a load of passengers in Oxenholme station, forcing ...
Cats have become political. No wannabe prime minister who would dare suggest they did not like cats, though Rishi Sunak has yet to declare. Budding politicians no longer kiss babies but they do stroke cats. Even Sir Ed Davey kneels subserviently in the presence of cats. Captured in @Guardian. "The Lib Dem leader, Ed Davey, canvassing Kate Allden - and Mikee the cat - before May's local elections." — Newsworks (@newsworks_uk) April 13, 2022 * Andy Boddington is a Lib Dem councillor in Shropshire. He blogs at andybodders.co.uk. He is Thursday editor of Lib Dem Voice.
We received complaints recently that the paths to the Tullideph sheltered lounge have not been maintained - loads of weeds and the shrubs not maintained. The tenants who raised this with us highlighted the health and safety hazard given the slope downhill to the complex. We raised this with the City Council and received assurances that this would be attended to as a matter of urgency.
Robert Aickman is celebrated by discerning readers as one of the modern masters of the uncanny. But he was also one of the pioneers of the revival of Britain's canals, becoming the first chairman of the Inland Waterways Association in 1946. In 1950 the IWA held its first national rally, billed as a "Festival of Boats and Arts", on the Market Harborough arm of the Grand Union Canal. It attracted 120 boats and more than 50,000 visitors. There was no national rally in 1951, but a story in the Leicester Mail (8 January 1952) shows that the IWA was hoping ...
