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Hartwood: the real history of a Scottish asylum

Hartwood asylum's most famous facts were made up, while its real dead lay nameless for decades. What the records, the cemetery and the families show, and who Scotland still keeps in hospital today.

28 Oct 2026 · 38 min read

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We are not a problem to be managed

Scotland has hundreds of thousands of neurodivergent adults and not one party at Holyrood willing to take them seriously. I asked them all before the 2026 election. The answers still matter.

3 May 2026 · 18 min read

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