Elisa Segrave

Aug 14, 2024 | spectator.com.au | Elisa Segrave

Danny’s People: A Memoir and Manifesto About Autism Oneworld, pp.320, 18.99 Is autism the worst thing that can happen to a person? Is ABA – Applied Behaviour Analysis – the right treatment for an autistic child? Should an autistic person get away with being rude? Do autistic individuals not feel empathy? If, as exists for unborn Downs Syndrome babies, a precise test is found to diagnose foetal autism, should the mother abort?

Aug 13, 2024 | spectator.co.uk | Elisa Segrave

Text size Line Spacing Comments Share Share Elisa Segrave Is it wrong to try to ‘cure’ autism? Linkedin Messenger Email Danny’s People: A Memoir and Manifesto About Autism Virginia Bovell Oneworld, pp. 320, £18 Is autism the worst thing that can happen to a person? Is ABA – Applied Behaviour Analysis – the right treatment for an autistic child? Should an autistic person get away with being rude? Do autistic individuals not feel empathy? If, as exists for unborn Downs Syndrome babies, a...

Jul 17, 2024 | thespectator.com | John Foreman |Travis Elborough |Elisa Segrave |againBy John Foreman

On his flight back to London from Washington, DC, Keir Starmer will have been satisfied with the outcomes of his first NATO summit. The new British PM will be concerned about the vigor of President Biden and the rhetoric of his presidential challenger. He and his European colleagues can do more to help assure the future of the transatlantic alliance. The summit in Washington marked the seventy-fifth anniversary of the most durable and successful defensive alliance in history.

Jul 17, 2024 | thespectator.com | Travis Elborough |Elisa Segrave |Elisenne Stoller |Tim Stanley

There has been a spate of books recently about private education, ranging from academic denouncements of their malign effects on society, such as Francis Green and David Kynaston’s Engines of Privilege, to Charles Spencer’s grim chronicle of neglect and abuse, A Very Private School. Though technically falling within this genre, 1967, the singer-songwriter Robyn Hitchcock’s diverting account of his formative spell at Winchester College, seems to hail from a rosier era.

Jul 17, 2024 | thespectator.com | Elisa Segrave |Amber Duke |Ella Johnson |Stephen MIller |Stephen Miller

“Do NOT look Lulu in the eye. Keep your voice low and soft and ignore her barking. Do NOT make arm or hand gestures. You can give her a treat, letting her come to you or drop it for her. She has been doing well with strangers outside but her property is difficult for her.”I was alarmed by this WhatsApp message from my cousin. I was due to visit. Would I be attacked by Lulu when I walked in? Surely I wouldn’t remember these instructions forwarded from her trainer by then?