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2024
- Nov 29, 2024 Staging Laughing Boy
- Nov 20, 2024 Timothy West (1934-2024)
- Oct 14, 2024 Adrian Schiller (1964-2024)
- Jul 19, 2024 John Burgess (1947-2024)
- Apr 21, 2024 Laughing Boy countdown
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2023
- Nov 20, 2023 Precious Cargo: Adapting ‘Justice for Laughing Boy’ for the stage
- Nov 16, 2023 No Child is Ineducable: Confederation of Schools Trusts, Keynote Speech
- Jun 7, 2023 A Hard Place by Patrick Kelly
- Jan 26, 2023 Why it’s time to stop calling people 'idiots'.
- 2022
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2021
- Sep 19, 2021 The Sound of Silence
- Apr 15, 2021 That tweet
- Mar 8, 2021 My son, Harry. A guest blog from Ramandeep Kaur
- Jan 12, 2021 Memories of a Great Teacher
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2020
- Dec 31, 2020 Reunion 2020: A Photo Essay
- Dec 16, 2020 Those They Called Idiots
- Aug 6, 2020 Love, Learning Disabilities and Pockets of Brilliance
- Jul 21, 2020 Memories in a Pandemic
- Jul 15, 2020 The Saddest Letter Ever Written
- Jul 1, 2020 Noli me Tangere: Visiting Joey at St Elizabeth’s
- May 5, 2020 Just Another Bloody Challenge
- Mar 27, 2020 Listen to Joey
- Mar 10, 2020 Fiction in the age of ‘Fake News’
- Feb 18, 2020 Eugenics and the Intellectuals
- Jan 31, 2020 The Great Brexit Fiasco
- Jan 9, 2020 The Experience of Defeat
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2019
- Dec 29, 2019 My Library
- Jul 26, 2019 Two Podcasts
- Jul 17, 2019 Jellyfish
- Mar 1, 2019 All in a Row
- Feb 18, 2019 England's Chekhov
- Feb 9, 2019 Puppetgate
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2018
- Oct 21, 2018 Writing about people with Learning Disabilities. A Manifesto.
- Oct 18, 2018 Cultural Representations of Learning Disabilities
- Jul 21, 2018 April Fool: The Great British Brexit Disaster
- Jul 19, 2018 Music Matters
- Jul 12, 2018 “The best in this kind are but shadows, and the worst are no worse, if imagination amend them”.
- Jun 26, 2018 Life after illness.
- Jun 20, 2018 A long letter to Joey
- May 27, 2018 ‘Challenging parents’
- May 8, 2018 Joey plays football
- Jan 16, 2018 What is intelligence and does it really exist?
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2017
- Oct 9, 2017 Justice for Laughing Boy : a book review
- Sep 27, 2017 Twitter, Bletchley Park and the meaning of Fascism
- Sep 13, 2017 Peter Hall (1930-2017)
- Jun 16, 2017 Why it's wrong to call Theresa May a 'bloody idiot': my response to the cover of the New European
- May 1, 2017 ALL OUR CHILDREN before the critics get to it.
- Apr 13, 2017 A guest blog from my Associate Director, Nathan Markiewicz, about ALL OUR CHILDREN
- Mar 12, 2017 'Trahison des Clercs'
- Mar 11, 2017 Historic attitudes towards people with Learning Disabilities and Epilepsy
- Feb 20, 2017 Epilepsy: Episode 2
- Feb 18, 2017 Calling the ambulance
- Feb 17, 2017 ‘Lives Unworthy of Life’: Bishop von Galen and the Nazi persecution of the disabled
- Jan 2, 2017 Why I hate Harry Potter
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2016
- Dec 31, 2016 Long live the NHS. Long live Joey
- Nov 29, 2016 2016: The Year from Hell: Some ramblings on Brexit, Trump and High Culture
- Nov 16, 2016 Howard Davies
- Nov 14, 2016 Thoughts from Trumpland