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These blogs provide an informative and entertaining insight into how disability and impairment are experienced from a disability perspective.
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According to government figures the Coronavirus will have cost us an estimated £69 billion by October 2020. Sounds a lot, but let us put it into some perspective … Disability Arts Online · Crippen puts the Coronavirus expense bill into perspective Back in 2009 this government paid out £500 billion to bail out the bankers. The cost ...
Disability Arts Online · Different Battle Same War 2: the ligatures of austerity different battle same war. number two. there is one bad word out there we've been talking about for a while, austerity. it seemed to disappear about the time that dave cameron did. slaver dave cameron invented schools czars ligatures have been around longer ...
If you’ve been reading the Disability Arts Online blog recently and thinking ‘You know what I miss? Letty McHugh talking about trying to make an installation of 1000 origami boats’ this is the blog post for you, friend. Here are two things for you to get yourself excited about. 1. I am in fact still working ...
Have you heard the expression ‘evidence blindness’? Well, let me give you a clue; it’s what’s happening within our welfare system and in particular with regard to the large, unnecessary delays to benefits payments. And its chief architect Iain Duncan Smith now admits that it’s not even necessary! Disability Arts Online · Crippen reveals that the ...
“Art feeds the soul as much as food feeds the body, and knowledge…feeds the mind.” The message is clear: irrespective of any pandemic, a spirit absent of the arts would become distantly disparate from the unified foundation of its social circles and livelihoods. Moreover, within the disabled community, the arts are utilised as an irreplaceable ...
I’ve always thrived in the warm. I love weather, but can’t actually cope with extended periods of cold. I like my snow and ice in short bursts so that the cold doesn’t get into my bones and cripple me with pain. Overcast and foggy days depress me. I’ve chased the light of clear skies with ...
Mike Smith, the former disability commissioner of the Equality and Human Rights Commission and now chief executive of the east London disabled people’s organisation Real, said the government’s pandemic strategy appeared to be to “protect the majority rather than those most at risk … (and that disabled people) are not a priority for the government”. Disability ...
642 says to write a scene using only sound effects. Easily done. On 25th March 2019, I was thinking through the edifying decline of a prime minister and was reminded of the time I was given short shrift for not giving Theresa May time to speak at a Rights Now Rally in Trafalgar Square. Some observers ...
...I am in one of the those 'little boy in the Emporer's new clothes' moods where I am screaming "listen all, Covid 19 is a political pandemic, the world has gone mad, don't be afraid, don't panic about anything, the more stress and cortisol you reap in your body the more you will be affected ...
It’s official! Disabled people have made up two-thirds of coronavirus deaths in the UK, according to the latest figures by the Office for National Statistics (ONS) and they say that we’re also 11 times more likely to die of the virus than non-disabled people. Disability Arts Online · Crippen reports that two thirds of those that ...
