ADHD
The ADHD racket
In 1620, in the Staffordshire market town of Bilston, a teenage boy decided he didn’t much fancy going to school.…
How real is your ADHD?
Why does everyone suddenly seem to have ADHD? It’s a question that many of us working in mental health have…
The adult ADHD trap
I was on the bus recently and bored when I decided not to ignore but to answer one of those…
Pie in the sky
Frieda Hughes adopts an unfledged orphan bird, regarding him as ‘a magical creature’ – but few others find him so engaging
Why I’m sceptical of the ADHD epidemic
Just a quick plea to those who know me; if you’re going to burst upon me with a revelation, make…
Enough to make anyone weep
When it comes to education, I’m in two minds, maybe three. I was sent to private schools, including, for my…
A brainwave… or not
We open with Theo, our narrator, and Robin, his son, looking at the night sky through a telescope. ‘Darkness this…
American universities are fuelled by amphetamines – so I tried them
New York A biography of Freud to my left, a black leather lounger to my right. We were 30 minutes…
Lessons in jargon
Schools are becoming addicted to acronyms. It’s not just silly, it’s dangerous
Germ warfare within
Before I read this book, I imagined the immune system as a defensive force, like the Germans on the beaches…
Children with a severe case of the excuses
There is a beautiful symmetry to all things, I think, and probably related somehow to the concept of karma. Only…
