As the brother of motor racing star Lewis, Nic finds that having the name Hamilton has both an up and a down side. But as he doesn’t put his talent on show on the Formula 1 circuit, he’s happy to take the rough with the smooth
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Falconer and the 'final solution'
No one, least of all Baroness Campbell of Surbiton, was surprised at the conclusions reached by the Falconer Commission on assisted suicide. But it remained important for disabled people on the opposite side of the debate to make their views clearly heard. Ian Macrae reports
Man angered by Tesco disservice
A disabled customer has spoken of his anger and upset at a supermarket’s failure to explain a “discriminatory” incident in which it refused to serve him alcohol.
We are all Spartacus
It’s an unusual event for a report and the motivation for producing it to come directly from within the community for whom it purports to speak. But, as Ian Macrae reports, such was the case in early January
Miller res care U-turn could mean cuts
The Government’s U-turn on withdrawing the mobility component of Disability Living Allowance (DLA) for people in residential care could mean other claimants losing out, campaigners have warned.
Feature
Meet the future: Young campaigners on show
In the 1990s disabled people, largely organised by Direct Action Network (DAN), hit the headlines as they chained themselves to buses and buildings to highlight the inequality disabled people faced. These protests influenced the Disability Discrimination Act, which in turn has led to improvements in equality, access and attitudes. But the fight for equality is far from over and whilst DAN no longer exists on the scale it did in the 1990s the spirit of fighting for your rights goes on in a new generation of young campaigners. The five young people profiled here by Emma Bowler have an impressive tally of campaigning achievements and their message is loud and clear – they are not giving up the fight for equality until it is won.
Editorial
Alarm signals on hate crime
The recent murder in Salford of Indian student Anuj Bidve, together with the conviction early in 2012 of two men responsible for the murder in 1993 of London teenager Stephen Lawrence are events which have brought the notion of hate crime into sharp focus once again.
