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Disability Discrimination Part 4 25 Nov 2011 | 02:22 am
Once I realised that writing letters to the company was taking me round and round in circles, the next stage was to get a bit stroppy. This is the 'Letter before Action' stage. Basically you set out...
Disability Discrimination - part 3 6 Nov 2011 | 10:31 pm
Of course it's all very well to end a post with 'It's time to fight back.' But how do we actually do it? How do we get some kind of justice when nobody is willing to help? Our greatest strength is....
Disability Discrimination - part 2 4 Nov 2011 | 10:12 am
So... what to do? The first thing you discover in a situation like this is that nobody wants to know. And I mean nobody. My first stop was the Equalities and Human Rights Commission. I mean, that'...
disablity discrimination - trying to get justice 2 Nov 2011 | 09:40 pm
-Enter a subject here- The Open University -Enter keywords here- 12.00 Normal 0 false false false EN-GB X-NONE X-NONE People often think that not discriminating against disabled people mea...
Nothing's really changed.... 16 Oct 2011 | 07:03 pm
Years ago, back in the 1970s there was some effort made to try and get an extra benefit for blind people, to take into account that they would never be able to drive and would incur extra expense with...
Getting Red Arrows.... 16 Oct 2011 | 10:09 am
I've always believed it is important to challenge sloppy journalism. So I often comment on posts that really should never have got past their editor. You know the sort of thing I mean, articles th...
Living in the Real World 5 Jun 2011 | 07:16 pm
Politicians have to make decisions that affect the lives of others every day. That's part of their job. And sometimes such decisions will be unpopular. But at the very least, those affected by the ...
I've been away 4 Jun 2011 | 10:25 am
Well, not anywhere nice unfortunately. Just unable to muster any sort of energy to do very much at all. Meanwhile the level of bile and general hysteria is rumbling on but I seem to have noticed a l...
More bile in the Daily Mail 24 Apr 2011 | 08:30 am
You know I used to think that Bel Mooney was a sensible sort of agony aunt. I don't expect to agree with everything another person says, but I felt that she tried to be compassionate, to see the othe...
Blaming the disabled.... 22 Apr 2011 | 11:48 pm
They have demonised us, trivialised the conditions that cripple us... and now they want to blame us. We shouldn't really be surprised. But that doesn't mean we should just take it. The powers that....
