This year I’ve been mostly at home, maybe that’s been your experience too. This isn’t new for me as since 2015 I’ve been living with chronic illness. The essence of 2020 has been our shared experience of being forced by circumstances beyond our control to stay in, when all you really want to do is go out. As the stark reality of having an altered Christmas becomes ever more apparent you may be longing for those heady days of living your …
I made a bit of a blunder last week planning our ‘The drugs don’t work – our over medicated society…’ event for this Monday night. Upstairs in the Harp Bar is a lovely room but it has one major issue – there are steps up to the room and no lift access. When a reader enquired with the Bar about disabled access I realised my mistake. So to make sure our events are open to all I am switching this Monday’s event …
Reprinted here with permission of Brian Barrington, a former SDLP advisor from his own Facebook page this morning… One of the decisions made when the Northern Ireland Executive was first established was to keep all aspects of equality policy in the Office of the First Minister and deputy First Minister (OFMDFM). There were two reasons for this. First, because OFMDFM was the secretariat to the Executive. Therefore, any paper from a department going to the Executive could be scrutinised on …
