Michael Carchrie Campbell
We all know how much we in Ireland like to celebrate St Patrick’s Day, coming up soon is the Breton equivalent: Gouel Erwan, St Yves. Well this year, the Breton Association in Ireland has chosen to celebrate it in Belfast. Breizh Eire, association des Bretons d’Irlande a choisi de faire cette année la Gouel Erwan […]
Following this afternoon’s vote in the debate on the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, Christopher Lovell has expressed his disappointment at Tim Farron’s “abstention” today. It seems that Mr Lovell who lives in Leeds, not in Tim’s constituency, feels that because there is no vote recorded by Tim Farron in today’s […]
Ed Vaizey MP, the Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Culture, Communications and Creative Industries, has placed a temporary export bar on the seven hangings which lasts until 20 May 2013 but may be extended to 20 August 2013 if a serious intention to raise funds to purchase them at the recommended price of £120,000 […]
Following this afternoon’s vote in the debate on the third reading of the Marriage (Same Sex Couples) Bill, Christopher Lovell has expressed his disappointment at Tim Farron’s “abstention” today. It seems that Mr Lovell who lives in Leeds, not in Tim’s constituency, feels that because there is no vote recorded by Tim Farron in today’s […]
It’s only two weeks since I was up at the HIV clinic at the Royal Victoria Hospital in Belfast. That appointment was an emergency one due to the somewhat awful cough and chest infection from which I was suffering at the time. The news back then was that the results from May’s blood tests were […]
The news that a man has been murdered in full view of witnesses on the streets of Woolwich makes me feel really sick. That the man killed was a member of HM Forces seems to make it worse. It certainly looks like an attack on the State in some form. Those of us who grew […]
***Trigger Warning: this post contains references to paedophilia.***
On the 4th December 2012, the world celebrated the UN International Day of Disabled People.
The National Union of Students (NUS UK) lent weight toward this by handing over some of their officer blogs for the day to various student officers around the country to 'come out as disabled'. It was an altogether inspiring collection; …
reading law with The Open University, adult volunteer with The Scout Association, interested in typefaces and printing, typesetter and brand aware, with a good dollop of creativity thrown in as well.
This is a wrenching post, and in a certain way I become uncomfortable reading it. I think that discomfort is because, truth be told, I am more like the writer than I want to admit. I like the role of “knowing all the answers” and being the person people depend on.
But in truth we need each other. Even those without clinical depression as such have all experienced some of these feelings. But those having it often or constantly are somehow stigmatized, and that is both unkind and unrealistic.
We can become “Pharisees” in so many ways.