Mental health recovery and what that means is determined by you not by other people. And you can find things that’ll help you in so many places. Thread⬇️
Ray’s parents split up when she was very young, her dad was in and out of prison and was absent from her life which affected her more than she realised. She fought with her mum a lot and ended up estranged from her, and living with her grandparents. (2/8)
But her grandfather had struggles of his own, with alcohol and mental health, so Ray ended up in care. (3/8)
Her school supported her – giving her the space to breathe and teachers that understood what she was going through. (4/8)
She also was living in temporary accommodation for a period of months which was so destabilising but found a space with @RichmondFellowship’s Castle project too. (5/8)
But the thing that really made a difference to Ray was her love and involvement with #Judo - finding a lifeline in the most unexpected of places.
We know that finding routes to mental health support is not easy, but there are still ways, different places, different kinds of support than first expected. (7/8)
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A society that embraced the state of being trans, runs the argument, would give cross-sex hormones to those of Gillick competence earlier: no other medical treatment imposes upon those able to make informed decisions an obligation to 'think' before making choices. Why this one?
They see this unique feature of trans healthcare as reflecting an inherent prejudice. It's a bit like our inglorious history of homophobia in which even loving parents said to their gay children, 'why are you doing this - it's such a difficult life?' as if being gay was a choice.
Yesterday, in an act she describes as "bold" Victoria Atkins decided to ban puberty blockers, which give young people questioning their gender identity time to think before they take partially irreversible cross-sex hormones. 🧵
The case for puberty blockers is that, in a world (and a nation) that is increasingly transphobic, they prevent the irreversible development of physical characteristics associated with the sex you were 'assigned at birth', that mean you will always find it difficult to 'pass'.
Imagine being a trans girl going through puberty, knowing your voice will drop and you will develop an Adam's apple which means you will be 'read' as a man in a transphobic world.
Amazingly, the Daily Mail says that handing over my data, including data the Tories have shared with it, would breach its human rights. So we plan to sue it. goodlaw.social/2a13
The very same Daily Mail that wrote this 👇🏻 in an editorial leader column is seeking to rely on Article 10 of the ECHR to undermine the sovereignty of Parliament and ignore a piece of law that both Houses have approved.
After I threatened to sue the Tories they fessed up that they shared my personal data with some bottom feeding "press" outlets including the Mail.
So I made what the law calls "data subject access requests" of those bottom feeders to find out what it was sharing.
The biggest VIP lane winner of the pandemic was a company called Innova. Good Law Project has seen a cache of documents from US courts about its 🤯 affairs. 🧵
We have identified forty five separate payments made to Innova by the Department of Health averaging over £100m EACH: a total of more than £4.5 billion paid by us to Innova. The court documents suggest those transactions generated profits of between $750m and $2bn for Innova.
Innova’s UK agent, Disruptive Nanotechnologies (aka Tried and Tested) is suing Innova for fraud. Robert Kasprzak, Innova’s lawyer, is suing Charles Huang, Innova’s CEO for fraud.
First, I am not a Government MP. This matters because the Government has also sorts of powers to bully and coerce that normal citizens do not. That's why its conduct is subject to special safeguards and scrutiny - not that Hodges' bottom rag would know anything about that.
My second point illustrates the first. I did go to Court because the Met initially refused to investigate Partygate. It's a form of scrutiny that public bodies, like the Met, are rightly subject to, because of their enormous power.
A few points on the so-called tax gap, the difference between the tax HMRC actually collects and its estimate of the total tax due. 🧵
First, it does not even purport to calculate sums lost through what tax wonks call Base Erosion and Profit Shifting - broadly speaking, tax dodging by multinationals.
Second, as @RichardJMurphy has pointed out, there is a pretty big curiosity in that our economy is worth ~£2,300 bn; most estimates give the size of the shadow economy as ~10%+; but the tax gap for the shadow economy is washers. (Only some of that VAT gap is 'shadow'.)