Lisybabe's Blog

Until last night I hadn't been in an ambulance since I was 8 years old and I shattered my ankle in school. I'm pretty adept at dea...

I've lost 2 friends in the past couple of weeks. First there was Tracey , and then Stella this weekend. I knew Stella long before she...

Oscar Pistorius has been found guilty of the culpable homicide [manslaughter] of his girlfriend Reeva Steenkamp . The International Paralymp...

I'm angry. I wasn't 20 minutes ago. I was exhausted. 3 days of migraine will do that to your energy levels. But then I read this ....

I've been trying to write a piece about Assisted Suicide (AS) for years. I've been collating links and quotes here and there. I'...

Both the mainstream media and the gay press have been writing vast amounts of articles over the last couple of days about Uganda's new h...

2013: What a piece of shit year that was. If I was of a superstitious inclination I'd postulate that with a "13" in the name, ...

This story was in the news yesterday about how a "complaints revolution" is needed in the NHS. But a few years ago I came across ...

Seeing as season 6 finished in the UK about a month ago, and season 7 starts in the US tonight, I can't imagine there's anyone that ...

I hate talking about my mental health. I mention the fact that I am depressed when I'm listing all my medical conditions or whatever. Bu...

Historically it's been the case that the single word to describe disability-based discrimination in British English has been "disab...

Lots of people are celebrating the death of Margaret Thatcher which is pretty crass. I've lost my mum and it doesn't matter how grow...

"I wish you'd never been born." I remember the Sunday morning a couple of years ago when a well-known pro-eugenics tweeter w...

I want to say "thank you" to those of you who put me on this year's Independent on Sunday Pink List : Their annual list of the...

Sometimes a news story is so big people use the expression "you'd have to be living under a rock" in order to have not heard a...