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Do you actually want this?10 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 6 days ago: I can’t find it now to link to, I’m afraid, but I was reading an ‘Oh, brave new world’ style article … more →

Tags: About Me, Polls

Two recommendations6 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 1 week ago: Yes, I’m still alive.  Whoo-hoo/ Ah crap* [* - delete as applicable] I have encountered two things o … more →

Tags: About Me, Media Commentary, Music, Stuff I've listened to

Sod the victims, let's defend the abusers

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 weeks ago: I am really bothered by this discussion over on Mental Nurse.  To summarise, a number of patients ar … more →

Tags: About Me, The NHS

(Crystal) ball gazing7 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 4 weeks ago: In light of the recent Queen’s-speech-related twitchings of the corpse of our present government, I’ … more →

Tags: Political Commentary

Whereof one cannot speak, thereof one must be silent18 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 1 month ago: Reviewing a biography of Beaumarchais, David A Bell, dean of the humanities faculty at Johns Hopkins … more →

Tags: About Me, Depression, Media Commentary, Psychiatry, Psychology, Social commentary

Not a good time to be a gay American5 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 1 month ago: On Monday, residents in the state of Maine were voting on a referendum motion to overturn a law that … more →

Tags: Political Commentary, Religion, Sexuality

If they can't get you coming, they'll get you going26 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 1 month ago: I’ve been doing some reading about personality disorders, and I came across the contribution of one … more →

Tags: Psychology, Psychiatry

Did you know this about the postal strike?5 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 1 month ago: Because I didn’t. In all the talk about the postal strikes, we’ve been hearing a lot that the … more →

Tags: Stuff I've watched, Political Commentary, Media Commentary, Stuff I've listened to

How low can you stoop?10 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: As you may have heard, Jan Moir, a columnist for the Daily Mail, wrote a vile, hate-filled column la … more →

Tags: Sexuality, Media Commentary

41 semi-sentences2 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: Well, I haven’t done a meme for a while, so I thought I’d give it a go.  Eroswings (from whose blog, … more →

Tags: About Me

David Cameron + Incapacity Benefit + Basic Arithmetic = FAIL26 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: David Cameron has announced that he wants to reassess every person on Incapacity Benefit to see if t … more →

Tags: Stuff I've watched, The benefit system, Political Commentary, Media Commentary

'Pitchers' & 'Catchers': Thinking about gay sex14 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: (Note: this post contains rude words, and talks about people’s naughty bits, and the things that the … more →

Tags: Sexuality, Stuff I've watched, Social commentary

The right to die6 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: This is a re-posting of a comment I left a little while ago over at Mental Nurse.  The post I was co … more →

Tags: About Me, Depression, Psychiatry, Social commentary, Media Commentary

It's The Sun Wot Won't Win It3 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: The Sun, as you probably know, has announced that it no longer supports Labour, and has switched its … more →

Tags: Stuff I've watched, Political Commentary, Media Commentary

This is quite fun5 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: I’m working on a proper post, I promise, but it’s taking forever to get it finished.  I don’t really … more →

People search for the darndest things13 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 2 months ago: So, this is an entirely pointless post, and is basically just a method of time-filling for me, and s … more →

Tags: Sexuality, Stuff I've watched, Pointless navel-gazing, Cheerful stuff, Social commentary, Religion, Atheism, Comedy

A life at least bearable3 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 3 months ago: In 1934 Samuel Beckett wrote to his cousin about the coming of spring: I think of it as a victory ov … more →

Tags: About Me, Depression, Psychology, anxiety, Psychiatry, Self-destructive behaviour, General mental weirdness

Why do little girls like pink?11 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 3 months ago: I have to be honest, I had never heard of the Science: So what? So everything campaign until represe … more →

Tags: Psychology, Social commentary

Twitter: On the one hand 'meh', on the other 'yay!'5 comments

aethelreadtheunread wrote 3 months ago: This is a post I started a while ago, and then scratched away at half-heartedly for a bit, and then … more →

Tags: Political Commentary, Social commentary, Media Commentary


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