The newsreader’s behaviour is totally unacceptable. Deliberately refusing to call somebody by their own name is purely and simply an act of aggression; and the difference between calling Chelsea Manning “Bradley” or “he” and calling someone “four-eyes”, “fatty” or any number of names drawing attention to a particular aspect of their situation which may be uncomfortable to them is one of degree, not one of kind

Just because a person is in prison, even if they are there because they actually did something wrong aot merely embarrassed someone with too much power and money, absolutely should not mean that they are not entitled to the same standard of healthcare as everyone else.

Though I’d be willing to bet money that you could find a dozen people to come out and say on national television that diabetics in prison should not receive insulin, asthmatics in prison should not receive salbutamol, &c 🙁

Whoops. I thought it best to hedge my bets.