So glad that Luqman Saeed - an academic at Ulster University - has written this piece about the Belfast riots. I hope I could write this clearly and perceptively were I under similar pressure right now.
www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2026/ju...
From a friend in Belfast.
Very good description of psychiatric diagnoses from @awaisaftab.bsky.social 👏👏👏
www.nytimes.com/2026/05/11/o...
Daniel Trilling
Daniel Trilling
From a friend in Belfast.
This is great. I recently completed an assessment for my daughter and found myself wondering why I was filljng in a form that locates deficits in her and not the system she has been in.
❤️ Brighton
In 2018, my LA closed its special school for autistic children without a LD in favour of units attached to mainstream. The result was many children stranded at home, suffering poor mental health with no support. 5 years later they opened a new school to replace the one they closed. Such a mess.
If Muslims or members of the Asian and Black community had set fire to white people’s homes with children running for their lives, do you think we would be discussing legitimate concerns or focussing on who radicalised them and ideological and contributing cultural factors?
