This is in the news. Given what's happening to disability benefits now, and the way disabled people are getting talked about (scroungers, fakers etc) it strikes me that this murder is being reported as though every right-thinking person would be horrified by what these lowlifes did. Yes indeed it's horrifying. But do we deserve sympathy only after ( Read more... )

Earlier this month you probably saw the news reports of a gang kidnapping somebody from her Kenyan home and taking her to Somalia. They left her wheelchair and her cancer medication, and according to news updates she is now dead.

Here is one of the reports. The focus quite rightly is on the horror of this crime and on what might be done to prevent ( Read more... )

!n 1911 a housepainter who had lead poisoning stole the Mona Lisa. He got caught, eventually, but the court psychiatrist disagnosed him 'mentally deficient'. He didn't spend long in prison. A few years after his release he died at age 44, possibly from the poisoning.

I've just seen a mention on telly of this fraud investigation company. What do people think of it?