Matilda Carter

Friends and family of officers named Robert or Roberta, possibly?

This happened to me too! The autocorrect monkey’s paw.

EDI Dialogues at UCL Arts and Humanities - Episode 7 - Minority Minds: Mental Disability & The Politics of Difference In this episode of the EDI Dialogues podcast, hosts Liam Gorner and Jack Zhang (both from UCL's student-run Minorities and Philosophy chapter) speak with Dr. Matilda Carter, British Academy Postdoctor

Had a great chat with the committee of UCL's Minorities and Philosophy chapter recently, setting out the case for viewing mental disabilities as neutral with respect to well-being.

You can take a listen here (or on Spotify, if you prefer).

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Successfully used the power of *asking* to get extra time I need to complete a project today.

Why did nobody tell me of this magic before?

I’ve actually been wondering since your piece the other day if this isn’t a big part of the explanation for the current state of politics.

People feel isolated from one another but aren’t consciously aware of why, and the old hits are the best when it comes to scapegoating.

I mean, I wouldn’t bank on me being right!

I have a pretty good track record of making overly optimistic predictions right before things get worse than I ever thought they could.

This is what I suspect too. In fact I’m wondering if this shift in right-wing circles towards supercilious natalism is something of an extinction burst for various regressive attitudes.

Might be wishful thinking.

It’s true, but I guess I was thinking as the bulk of this cohort gets closer to needing social care we might see more support for, say, NI rises (that they don’t pay), or inheritance tax (that their children will pay) to fund it.

Just hard to believe they would be so self-destructive. Unless the quick reversal is on attitudes to taxation?

Given we have a politically powerful demographic bulge making its way toward needing social care en masse, do you think this state of denial is going to last long? Or could there be a quick reversal in attitudes towards, for instance, social care visas?

7 academics standing in front of a screen with text that reads: “Ethics, Politics, and Care in the Ageing Society”

Had a fantastic time hosting this group of speakers, over the last two days, to talk through normative questions raised by our ageing societies.

Thanks to all who attended too; it was a lovely way to cap off my time here in Glasgow!

I mean, it’s also because the average house price in my childhood village has ballooned to well over ten times my current salary, but I agree with the sentiment 😅

One thing I feel pretty confident I will be teaching writers for years to come is that your process has to be what works for you and not what anyone else is telling you is the way to do it.

Years into my MFA, I FINALLY have my process and it is so against what most people teach.

I might need to look into this again then. Better start now if I have a chance of getting it before the next election 😬

How long did this take you? My brothers and I worked out we were *probably* entitled to it, but the process seemed pretty daunting.

An absolute masterclass in how the UK media platforms and normalises far right politics. This is how Farage wins.

I don’t know about that. This particular example represents, what, an image produced about 10 minutes faster than it could have been on Photoshop?

I’m not saying LLMs are free from threats, but increasingly I feel like most are just iterations on the familiar.

For all that is said about the UK on this issue, my sense is that this is what most reasonable people want.

I just think there’s a lot of confusion about what we can legitimately demand of others to get there.

Whatever genuine fears of insincere actors exploiting accommodations exist, I do not believe the British public will comfortably bear the consequences of punishing all trans people to stop them.

Call me a sentimental liberal, but I believe the cruelty of the new position ensures it will not hold.

As good a time as any to recirculate this article I published in 2022…

Starmer to drive through welfare cuts that could affect UK’s most severely disabled PM faces backlash over plans to tighten eligibility, potentially leaving over 600,000 claimants £675 a month worse off

Backing down from the Pip freeze is not good enough.

Maybe I could stomach the UC changes, but tightening the qualifying criteria for Pip further is a cowardly and cruel way to meet the Government’s self-imposed fiscal rules.

Right, the BBC Scotland-only Sunday Show is now on and it looks a lot better. Can’t imagine it’s a budgetary issue then—the DIY feel is an intentional design choice I guess!

Used to be an avid Marr show viewer as a student but haven’t tuned in regularly for years.

Why does it look so cheap now Kuenssberg has taken over? The backdrop makes it look like she’s filming in a student union basement.

Was this a gradual or a sudden decline?

On the Quality of Relational Justice By emphasising the role of concepts like social status, power and respect, all relational egalitarians seek to demonstrate that there is more to the political concept of equality than the distributio...

New article in open access with Analytic Philosophy.
In this piece, I pull apart arguments about the nature of justice and the nature of equality in relational egalitarian literature, giving an account of a relational approach to justice that need not necessarily be egalitarian.

Thank you!

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Care Ethics

Pre-orders of the collection I edited for Bloomsbury on care ethics are now available.

So excited to have found a home for some fantastic contributions from across our international scholarly community!

Wes Streeting defends timescale for social care reform The first steps to creating a National Care Service are announced - but critics say the pace of the plan

Another set of long term ambitions that will achieve little meaningful change, because policymakers have few fixed views on what the social care sector is *for*.

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Love it when I spend months making torturously slow progress on a draft paper, then finish it rapidly and by surprise.

It happens nearly every time, but you try convincing me of that when I’m in the thick of writing one paragraph every three hours.

Bank accounts locked and cash withdrawn after elderly gave power to law firm partner BBC hears how people felt pressured to grant lasting power of attorney to a man called Ron Hiller.

In 2023 alone more than 1 million people registered Lasting Powers of Attorney.

But this is a tale about concerns relation to one legal firm in Essex and 30 cases involving Mr Hiller and his firm, Craybeck Law

A disturbing pattern of events:

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