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Ian Mucklejohn went to Crookham Court School as a two-week replacement to cover for an absent teacher. In what he thought was a real-life Llanabba Castle, he diarized its eccentricities, realizing that these disguised a sinister undercurrent. Twenty years later he helped expose one of the greatest scandals in modern British education. The after-effects on the children at this school and at those schools its teachers went to afterwards continue to this day. Mucklejohn has been the recipient of several disclosures which have led to abusers being jailed decades after their crimes were committed. In this book, written as events unfolded, he shows how easily what started as one man's hobby devastated children's lives - all without the knowledge of any of the parents, most of the teachers, in the absence of any intervention from authority and mostly at the expense of the UK taxpayer.
A Dad for All Seasons
Teacher Ian Mucklejohn suddenly found himself in the midst of a media storm when the news broke he was to become Britain's first single father in 1999. Overnight he and his infant triplet sons made new headlines. In this book, Ian tells the story of raising his three children over the last decade.
And Then There Were Three
Frank and insightful, And Then There Were Three tells the extraordinary story of Ian Mucklejohn and his unusual family in his own words. A long-term carer for his disabled father and mother, and the founder of a successful language school, Ian's life was full. But feeling that he was not satisfied, he contacted a surrogacy agency in the US. Ian recounts the struggle of the surrogacy procedure, the suspense of waiting, and the surprise of discovering he was to be the father of triplet boys. But the triplets' premature delivery by Caesarean section in a US hospital was only the beginning of his change of life.Struggling with inscrutable Home Office procedures while trying to establish the boys in the UK, Ian found himself with an even greater problem: the media. Once his story was made public the reactions poured in. He describes the astonishing attention generated by every detail of the triplets' first months...
A Child of One's Own
A fascinating study examining the diversities and novelties of contemporary parenthood in the light of a range of literary and philosophical works ranging from Greek tragedies to contemporary psychoanalytic theory by way of diverse writers from the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries.
From IVF to Immortality
This text provides a clear, simple account of techniques involved in assisted reproduction and embryo research. It explores controversies raised by developments in reproductive technology since the first IVF baby in 1978, such as 'saviour siblings', designer babies, reproductive cloning and embryo research.
The Linguist
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Running Out of Tears
In October 1986 ChildLine - the first national helpline for children in the world - was launched. With it came a revolution in child protection. For the first time abused children had someone they could ask for help. The launch of ChildLine was broadcast on BBC TV on October 30th. Watching in her quiet, respectable home in a small rural town was Jo, a clever, troubled fourteen year old. Suddenly Jo, the silent victim of sexual abuse by her parents' closest friend, no longer felt utterly alone. For the first time, she was being offered help, there on the screen. She was one of 50,000 children who tried to ring that night. In the end she got through to a counsellor and her life changed forever...
Democracy for Sale
The Sunday Times bestseller. 'A compulsively readable, carefully researched account of how a malignant combination of rightwing ideology, secretive money (much of it from the US) and weaponisation of social media have shaped contemporary British (and to a limited extent, European) politics... Remarkable' Observer, Book of the Week Democracy is in crisis, and unaccountable and untraceable flows of money are helping to destroy it. This is the story of how money, vested interests and digital skulduggery are eroding trust in democracy. Antiquated electoral laws are broken with impunity, secretive lobbying is bending our politics out of shape and Silicon Valley tech giants collude in selling out ...
