I am not, generally speaking, greatly drawn to Tory MPs. When Kenneth Clarke was on Desert Island Discs twenty odd years ago, I was dismayed to find that we had overlapping musical tastes. It did not shift my opinion about his politics. Yesterday morning, I heard Dr Sarah Wollaston on the BBC’s Today programme, explaining […]
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Radicalisation and mental health
Dr Philip McGarry is a psychiatrist from Belfast. He is an old friend, a little younger than me. He is former Chair of the non-sectarian Alliance Party of Northern Ireland. He knows a lot more than most people about political violence and its relationship with mental disorder. Philip sent me an email on Sunday, concerned […]