HeyJaredDiary of a Punter
Coming to terms with severe spinal cord injury; recording the experience from acute hospital, through rehab, and hopefully beyond. Using voice dictation software due to residual hand function.
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Radical (opens the original)
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On Monday, I recorded an interview for the BBC series Radical. They invited me to defend my idea of offering students a discount on university fees if they first spend a year working in the care sector. Somewhat inevitably, the conversation also pivots to the “radical” change I experienced in my life after I chucked myself off a mountain. The podcast is available for download on the website now, but if you want to be old school, you can listen to the shortened version that goes out nationwide at
Shameless self-promotion (opens the original)
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Recently, the universe has been doing that thing where it tries to kill me. Kidney-Eating Bacteria 0 - 1 Paul (rematch; AET)But once again, it needs to try harder. <img alt="SPOILERS] There is only one god, and
Me, Matt Goodwin, and a Dalek. (opens the original)
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It’s been a busy week for me!On Wednesday I went to BBC Broadcasting House and appeared alongside a creature devoid of empathy. It appealed to cold (and deeply flawed) logic in a pointed refusal to say that it was right to save a drowning child.<img al
Overexamined Life (opens the original)
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I was recently invited to appear on The Overexamined Life, an excellent podcast made by Jonah Primo. You can find it “wherever you get your podcasts,” as well as on YouTube. This is the first time I've really talked at full-length about what happened to me, the aftermath, and what it's taken for me to get to where I am today. For those who care, I also dipped into the fray regarding the insane plagiarism scandal currently ripping through British academia:They say August is the silly seaso
Social care in crisis (opens the original)
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Yesterday I published an article on the state of social care in the UK. For those who are not in the UK, the short version is: things are really, really bad.I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe. I’ve seen things Andy Burnham wouldn’t believe.While lying paralysed in a hospital bed, I have watched NHS nurses telling agency staff to just stand over there and do nothing, because they were so incompetent they were making things worse by trying to help. I’ve had the terrifying prospect of try
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