- Not normally watching TV, this week I am with a client who does, so within 24 hrs I hear about plans to cut the NHS..., T.May's plans to commission a study about racial and social injustice and - a TV-ad for a private insurance for cancer sufferers.. Now, how do these three items make sense together? - someone said, the NHS crisis has been engineered in order to justify privatisation. I am not sure whether this kind of conspiracy theory isn't a bit like magical thinking. Is it not more likely that Jeremy Hunt and Co. believe they are doing the right thing ...without asking fro whom.
And then there is Theresa May - conservative politician with a genuine heart - or wolf in a social justice costume? And the private advertiser certainly shows a good sense of timing..
Encouragingly, I also find: yet another change.org campaign to get one or other cancer patient the drugs they need. This may be where power for the people now shows tender shoots: in such campaigning - democratically conspiring for social change? I hope so.

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http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/probing-the-boundaries/fears-and-anxieties/research-streams/fears-and-anxieties-in-the-21st-century/call-for-presentations/conference-programme-abstracts-and-papers
pleased to say that my planned conference contribution to the interdisciplinary conference on Testimony in Oxford in Sept is now online. You find my abstract under authors M-Z, and the session where I'll speak is Wed Sept 21 11.00. thorganisers invite people to attend the whole conference - to allow for exchange and mutual learning:
In my paper I talk about the experience and learning of a whistle-blower (in the NHS in England)..
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http://www.communitycare.co.uk/2016/07/06/social-work-human-rights-assessing-life-people/

Recently found this article in Community Care and breathed a sigh of relief - this is how I recognise my profession, this is what it's about: Dealing deeply with complex issues in people's lives - read against their human rights!
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