Report: Years Later, Wildfires Blaze on in Survivors’ Minds
Charlie Hertzog Young
Three-quarters of survivors of Australian bushfires struggle with anxiety two years on. Charlie Hertzog Young reports.
Tag: ptsd
Opinion: Mental Health Diagnoses Are Capitalist Constructs
Micha Frazer-Carroll
Mental and physical diagnoses aren’t objective facts that exist in nature, writes Micha Frazer-Carroll: they're constructed by capitalism.
Opinion: Losing Your Mind Is a Proportionate Response to the Climate Crisis
Charlie Hertzog Young
Those who buckle in the face of climate collapse are entirely in tune with reality, writes Charlie Hertzog Young.
Opinion: Neurodiversity Doesn’t Make Me Miserable – Society Does
Charlie Hertzog Young
I’ve often blamed myself for my poor mental health, writes Charlie Hertzog Young. The concept of neurodiversity showed me it’s society that’s at fault.
Downstream: Veterans: Rightwing or Radical?
They are claimed from all sides and by all parties. But who are Britain’s ex-service personnel? What do they want? And what do their politics – whether conservative, liberal or socialist – tell us about Britain as a post-imperial country? Aaron Bastani speaks to Joe Glenton, journalist and author of ‘Veteranhood’.
Opinion: My Son Osime Brown Will Die If He is Deported – But the Racist State Isn’t Listening
Joan Martin
Osime Brown has lived in the UK since he was four. He has autism, PTSD and a heart condition, yet the British government wants to deport him to Jamaica, where there is nobody to support him - all for a minor crime witnesses say he did not even commit. His mother, Joan Martin, spoke to Novara Media about why he must be allowed to stay.
The Lockdown: Profits and the Prison Industry
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann discuss the Incarcerated Workers Organising Committee (IWOC) and proposed prison expansion.
The Lockdown: Policing by Consent?
Oonagh Ryder and Sam Swann speak to Koshka Duff, a lecturer in Philosophy at the University of Nottingham. In 2013, she was arrested and strip searched after offering a legal advice card to a teenager being stopped and searched in Hackney.