The Politics of Unintended Consequences
What Belgium's cannabis crisis reveals about organised crime, human nature and the limits of political ambition.
Annemarie Ward
CEO @FAVORUK advocating for those suffering & recovering from #Addiction. #DrugDeaths #ScotlandsShame. Interested in Justice, Mercy & Good Faith ✝️ #UTalkWeDie
Subscribe:.rss.atom.json.md.m3u.pls
Live Last read · last published · next check
Latest episodes
Remembering Recovery
Government Cannot Manufacture Society
Becoming Someone New
Part III
When Compassion Forgot Its Purpose
Part 2
Beyond the Body Count
What Scotland's drug deaths cannot tell us and why it matters.
The Questions That Forced Me to Clarify What I Actually Believe About Recovery, Society and Hope (Part Two)
From Government to the Gospel: What Recovery Really Requires
The Questions That Forced Me to Clarify What I Actually Believe About Recovery, Society and Hope
What I Actually Believe About Addiction: Twelve Questions and My Answers
Britain Does Not Have a Governance Crisis. It Has a Leadership Crisis.
How We Replaced Statesmen with Stakeholders and Called It Progress
Grief Does Not Vote: What Would It Take for a Right to Recovery Bill to Succeed?
Somewhere in Scotland today, a mother is wondering whether her son will survive the weekend.
Cannabis, Culture and the War of the Tribes
How the Prohibitionists, the Legalisers and the Scientists All Found Exactly What They Were Looking For
Andy Burnham and the End of Westminster
How the Mayor of Manchester inherited a kingdom Westminster accidentally misplaced.
How old wounds became political principles.
How to lose magnificently while explaining why it wasn't your fault.
The Therapeutic State and Scotland's Lost Boys
How to lose a generation and still hit all your wellbeing targets
The Performance of Compassion
How We Replaced Love With Wellbeing Strategies and Wondered Why Everyone Felt Lonely.
Britain’s Great Administrative Escape Room
Andy Burnham and the long slide from democratic life into managerial theatre
The Industry of Suffering
How Scotland forgot the difference between surviving and flourishing
They Already Know
Why I no longer believe Scotland’s drug deaths crisis is being treated as an emergency to end, but as a tragedy to administrate.
The Ballot Box and the Broken Ladder
Everyone Talks About Recovery. Almost No One Builds It
Join my new subscriber chat
A private space for us to converse and connect
Quality Control for Chaos: Scotland’s Ritual Response to Rising Drug Deaths
There is a particular kind of document produced by modern bureaucracies which manages, with great skill, to describe catastrophe while avoiding any responsibility for it.