Yep - had friends go through that kind of clearance. Government IT admin roles etc. One said that he started getting calls from people he hadn’t spoke to in decades - “Hi, these people are asking que… (View Post)

Vote Malmesbury. For a long term, planned future. But first, a wild five minutes. (View Post)

It’s pretty simple 1) sectioning people is now a serious medico-legal endeavour 2) once locked up, they must be repeatedly assessed to try and see if they can leave. 3) forcibly medicating people is … (View Post)

Not especially ironic. In many things he was actually a thoughtful and rather progressive man. Being one of the first from mainstream politics to fall down the immigration/race rat hole destroyed his… (View Post)

The actual reason that the old mad houses went away was that 1) they were brutal, horrible places. Out of sight, out of mind. 2) around the world, people who were aware of it, fought against them. An… (View Post)