The Mail ran a story today claiming entrepreneur Matthew Freud entertained Angela Rayner at his Notting Hill house recently. An unlikely partnership…
Fleet Street observers speculate it has something to do with Freud’s fractured link to Rupert Murdoch. He was married to Rupert’s daughter Elisabeth until 2014 – they’re now divorced….
Labour figures on the left have long campaigned/threatened to launch Leveson 2 – regulations aimed at severely restricting press freedom. Freud knows the consequences for Fleet Street – has the Mail been duped into running a story that is more about the Press being imperilled than it seems to realise…
Rayner is gearing up for her run at No10. Only the taxman stands in her way…
Speaking on Times Radio, former Home Secretary David Blunkett spoke about overdiagnosis of mental problems:
“Let’s distinguish those who are really severely mentally ill, diagnosed with things that require prolonged medical and diagnostic treatment. My wife and I talk about this a lot, because she’s a retired GP, about the fact that you can be sad without being ill. You can be momentarily depressed because your boyfriend or girlfriend’s just thrown you and you’re not mentally ill. You can even have mild issues, which can be dealt with with the right kind of support, but it doesn’t make you mentally ill. So we’ve got a real task, I think, to get the psychology, if you like, of this over. But there are things where you definitely need medical intervention, and there are other things where you need good friends, you need good connectivity, and you need a job.”