I went to what was probably one of the shittiest schools around me; it was forever failing Ofsted inspections. A school where chairs would go flying across the room, where supply teachers would walk out crying, to the amusement of the class. I remember when my head of year, while in year 10, called us in for an emergency assembly.…
I went to bed last night not knowing whether I’d wake up this morning. In fact I’ve been going to bed every single night for the past 3 years with this uncertainty. I’m not going to bed being negative or pessimistic, but rather with an appreciation that no day is a given. A reminder that each day counts, that each…
This week the U.K. goes to the polls. Here is an example of one MP, my MP Keir Starmer helping me, a constituent in a desperate health crisis, when the Health Secretary for State said “sorry I cannot be more helpful”- Jeremy Hunt offered no help at all. Last April (2016) I had a £200,000 fundraising target to get access…