Blog Posts

  • If you do just one thing today, make sure it’s signing the petition

    I’m keeping this short, because my message needs to be heard. We have just under three days left to pressurise the government into pausing the Welfare Reform Bill. Three days, 72 hours, 4,320 minutes. It’s not long, but I believe it’s possible. After all, we’ve already done the impossible, haven’t we? We, the disabled community…

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  • BA in disability scandal

    Why did BA see fit to refuse a flight to a child with Down’s Syndrome? What does this say about our society? Highly independent twelve-year-old Alice Saunders from West Sussex was set to visit her Aunt in Glasgow on a BA flight from Gatwick as an unaccompanied minor. Alice attends mainstream school and goes away…

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  • Sluts of the world, unite

    Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut, slut. Does it make you cringe? Did your hackles rise? Let’s try again. Slut, slut, slut, slut, slut. OK, I’ll stop now. Actually, the word (wait for it) SLUT has become much more than an offensive word dripping with hidden meanings and implications. As of 2011, it’s become political. It’s…

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  • Five-year-old Rania Must Stay

    I’m a big fan of petitions. Not just because I like adding my name to a (hopefully) long list along with others who feel the same way as I do, but because it’s a measure of democracy. If enough signatures are obtained, maybe, just maybe, those in authority may take the desired action. It’s no…

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  • Jono Lancaster: the man at the centre of the latest controversial storm

    The problem with intending to blog regularly about issues that resonate with me and my specialisms means that there is a wealth of material to choose from. What this means in reality, is that I can’t actually decide, so I don’t decide at all. That’s really not good practise. I know. Then today, the story…

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  • The return of the 1950s housewife? No thanks.

    I was actually going to blog about accessibility this week, but then an article in The Telegraph caught my attention. Well, not so much ‘caught’ as in ‘enraged’ my attention, if such a thing is possible. The Telegraphs so-called Social Affairs Editor writes that what women want, in the 21st century, is to marry a rich man.…

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  • 2011: the year of the novel…..?

    And here we are, nicely landed into a new year full of hope, apprehension and god knows what else. It’s a while since I’ve last blogged, but now with a refreshingly modern and (hopefully) slick new website, I intend to be updating a lot more regularly about anything and everything. Some of it will be…

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  • EHRC v BNP (2009) :It’s a game of Monopoly

    “The British National Party is poised to give up its whites-only membership policy after a legal challenge accusing it of racial discrimination,” reports The Times. (http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/politics/article6820847.ece#cid=OTC-RSS&attr=797084) The legal challenge, sought by the Equality and Human Rights Commission, accuses the BNP of breaching the Race Relations Acts (2000) due to its fundamentally racist policies. Not that…

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