disability, data protection, activism and other such
OK not political, FoI or Disability related for once. I’ve been busy recently writing two Weather websites. The first, Wetherby Weather, started from a bargain basement purchase of a weather station on eBay. Using Cumulus and various utilities written by generous and talented third parties, that data is put on the Web – realtime and…
My ex-carer is being deported to Malawi. She’s claiming asylum as she is a lesbian; society in Malawi is strongly anti-gay, so much so that last year the government introduced a new law specifically against lesbianism. She faces returning to a forced marriage to an abusive husband, and lifelong denial of her sexuality on threat…
The Care Quality Commission (CQC) has come in for somewhat of a bashing recently. But I didn’t think they would lie as well. In response to a recent documentary exposing care home abuse, CQC said the following in their media statement: CQC carries out an unannounced inspection of every care and nursing home in England…