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Cast Offs , Channel Four's risky mockumentary on disability, got under way last night and turned out to be more authentic than most reality television. It centred on a group of people with various disabilities supposedly marooned on a desert island...
In yesterday's blog , I referred to an article by Ian Birrell in the The Independent about the casual acceptance of language offensive to people with physical and learning disabilities. Read More...
If anyone needs confirmation why the abuse of disabled
people is a major issue they need look no further than a court case in Devon. Read More...
There are today 995 days until the start of the London
Olympics and 1,028 until the Paralympics get under way. But could the London
games become the first where disabled athletes line up against their
mainstream counterparts? Read More...
Apologies for being M25-centric, but concealed in London
mayor Boris Johnson's plans for getting people off the capital's transport
system was an item that has almost gone unnoticed. Read More...
The tragic case of Fiona Pilkington and her daughter highlighted the problem some people in the mainstream have with disability.
Recent press and TV reports suggest that the prime minister is not immune. Read More...
The passengers are revolting. The Conservative MP David
Willetts is one of the commuters complaining about the number of announcements
on South West Trains' Havant to London rail line. Read More...
A report has demolished the myth peddled by some that the
whole world is champing at the bit to settle in the UK. Read More...
So would you buy your clothes from Abercrombie & Fitch? Read More...
A ruling from the House of Lords has widened the legal
definition of disability. Read More...
I would never have imagined bracketing the people who drive
mobility scooters with Lewis Hamilton . Read More...
Tomorrow is May Day. This year it is also Blogging Against
Disablism Day . Read More...
I must admit to knowing little about the TV soap Emmerdale
except that it is set in Yorkshire and the intriguing name Dingle crops up. Read More...
Prejudice against disabled people is seldom "up there" with
race and gender bias but the case of Cerrie Burnell shows that it should be. Read More...
If a social worker came out with the insults uttered by
Jeremy Clarkson and Carol Thatcher last week or a remark similar to that
allegedly made by a diplomat this week, they would be out of the door quicker
than a Chelsea football manager. Read More....
Yesterday, one of the few boroughs in England that provided
free home care for elderly residents and disabled people started charging them. Read More...
After their 17-medal haul in Beijing, the British
Paralympian athletes have been rewarded with a cut in funding just in time to
prepare for London 2012. Read More...
Of course it is laudable that the government wants to move one million people from benefits to employment by 2015. Of course there are people who
want to milk the system. Of course "something should be done". Read More...
We have yet to reach that watershed for disability rights,
like the one the police had to face up to after their botched investigation
into the racist murder of teenager Stephen Lawrence . Read More...
The Paralympics start this weekend in Beijing and hopes are
high that Team GB can continue its success of Athens four years ago,
particularly after their colleagues in the Olympics turned in such a gold-plated performance last month. No pressure, then...