Byline: MICHELLE RUSHTONLiverpool Echo (Liverpool, England)
Losing her deeply wounded me. She was a great friend and mentor. I have enormous respect for her, and I miss her. I wouldn’t have received this award now without her faith in me. Mike Benton kept the ball rolling with the nomination process after she passed, and I thank him too. ...
In the thousand days that I’ve been stuck here, getting sicker and sicker, losing my ability to function in a world that increasingly excludes me and mine, I have watched people who swore they would strive for a better, more inclusive and kinder world completely abandon people like me. Ru...
Finally, as I understand it (as a non-parent) the child benefit is always paid to the mother. It should be clear from my notes that either parent can be hit by the High Income Child Benefit charge, though – which is bound to cause some unintended consequences, given the multiplicity of...