marcusalonso

Spaniard in Sussex. Looking for inspiration. Failing to avoid the culture wars. I/me

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@RITB_ But you seem happy to dismiss a specific therapy

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@RITB_ Ok but if you don't rate dbt what therapy do you endorse?

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@bencsmoke How did people cope before smartphones?

[Nicola Burkinshaw @NABurkinshaw]

@ZickZaggurat I think coroners need to stop attribute specific causes to suicide.

[Maurice Cousins @MDC12345678]

We are in this mess because of the failure to respond properly to the energy crisis in 2022.

Mr Lewis might want to reflect on the role he played in encouraging the wrong political incentives at the time. However well-meaning his intentions, the emphasis on immediate financial relief, rather than addressing the underlying causes of our domestic energy insecurity, helped create a situation in which Labour and Conservative politicians could avoid confronting the structural problems.

Imagine if we had spent the last 4-5 years addressing those problems instead of doubling down on the Milibandite policies that contributed to them.

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@willis_macp The most tedious self absorbed man in cricket!

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@paxangloceltae Presumably it's just because pork is cheaper, so less excitement at getting it half price.

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@DanReilly92 It's hardly a festive font is it?!

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@ProfLAppleby The risk can be real but the court can definitely dismiss the risk as irrelevant to it's consideration.

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@Barristerblog Can you explain release from standard determinate sentence would be at 2/3 point. I thought it was halfway?

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@RedDyke69 @thequentinletts It's interesting though this only came out after he stopped being the darling of the left.

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@ClarkeMicah I can't open these links Peter

[Naomi Fisher @naomicfisher]

The people who are being given an autism diagnosis have changed. This is a massive study, looking at people in Sweden and the UK diagnosed with autism in adulthood. What they find, apart from a huge increase in the number of people being diagnosed (and many more women being diagnosed), is that the people themselves are different.

Previously, adults who received an autism diagnosis were more likely to have a prior history of epilepsy, intellectual disability or psychotic disorders. Now, they are more likely to have a history of anxiety, depression, ADHD or other symptoms of emotional distress.

This is in line with what clinicians have been saying for a while. Mental health problems, which were previously seen as psychological or emotional in origin, are increasingly being seen as neurodevelopmental, and therefore due to brain differences. Autism is the lens through which our culture is seeing distress.

This has serious implications, because autism is seen as untreatable and lifelong. Mental health problems such as anxiety or depression are seen as treatable. Recovery is possible. By bringing so many more people under the autistic umbrella, we tell them thatthey are wired this way. That’s a powerful explanation because it can bring relief and self-acceptance - but it can also bring hopelessness about change.

We aren’t discovering more of the original type of autism which was there all along, we have changed what autism means. The important question is, what is the impact of diagnosing so many more people, and it is helping them to better live the lives they want?

https://t.co/xPJtONPF6x…

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@GyllKing @KateBMwriting Nobody is born trans.

[Kevin Hague @kevverage]

the self control required not to say “get your fucking hands off me” is the most impressive part of this clip

[Dennis Noel Kavanagh @Jebadoo2]

For Akua Reindorf KC and Baroness Falkner to reach this conclusion is shocking.

Labour MPs need to take this seriously.

The conversion bill is so poorly drafted it could be declared incompatible with basic human rights.

That would be extraordinary for modern legislation.

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@SkyNews @jamesmatthewsky Odious!

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@asifamhp Normally these issues have been aired via immigration appeals etc long before they put them on a flight.

[marcusalonso @anothermarcusa]

@MerrynSW That man is a moron