Ruth Medjber: ADHD clouds sufferers’ minds, so why is the path to diagnosis so befuddling?

Ruth Medjber: ADHD clouds sufferers’ minds, so why is the path to diagnosis so befuddling?

For the last few years, I was working as a tour photographer with a band, living on a tour bus with lots of crew and musicians. When you’re living in close quarters with people like this, you build bonds and have unique relationships that rarely happen in adult life. You have breakfast, lunch and dinner with these people, you share a cup of tea in the morning in your PJs and a post-show glass of champers too.

Lorraine Courtney: Outrage over housing sizes rings hollow when we just want somewhere to live

Lorraine Courtney: Outrage over housing sizes rings hollow when we just want somewhere to live

People talk a lot about dignity in housing as if it’s directly tied to square footage or light levels. But dignity, for me, was not having to move every May because a landlord’s cousin “needed the room”. It was finding a place – any place – where I wasn’t competing with 27 other hopefuls queued down a terrace as if it was Willy Wonka’s factory tour.