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A white-knuckle ride back to work

Hard on the heels of George Osborne’s budget announcement that Disability Living allowance (DLA) is to be subject to a medical assessment, comes further evidence that we would do well to adapt and follow Lord Randolph Churchill’s advice about Gladstone and “beware a young man in a hurry”.

Cider with Georgie

Following Chancellor Osborne’s “unavoidable budget”, I was in two minds about doing a web story praising the Government’s decision to reverse the rise in duty on cider.

Fifteen days in May

Harold Wilson’s dictum that “a week is a long time in politics” has become a cliché. But in the Cameron/Clegg, so-called, “new politics”, it doesn’t appear to be any less true than it was when he coined it.

Quiet Man with form at DWP

The appointment of Iain Duncan-smith by David Cameron as Work and Pensions Secretary in the new coalition cabinet was perhaps predictable. But it also raises interesting questions

Democratic rights access wrongs

So here we are in the last full week of the General Election campaign. And many of us as disabled people are thinking not only about who to vote for, but whether we’ll be able to vote in an accessible way at all

A chilling confession

The advent of reality TV has meant that we’ve grown used to people doing extraordinary things in full view of millions. But has there ever been anything quite so chilling as the confession by broadcaster Ray Gosling, made in the recent Inside Out documentary broadcast in the East Midlands, that he killed a former lover?

The inequality of mercy

Disability, death and confusion

All clear on DLA

At last the Government seems to have got its ducks in a row with regard to Disability Living Allowance.

Griffin's politics of hate

Two media events coinciding gave me pause for thought. Last night’s appearance on BBC1’s Question Time by BNP leader Nick Griffin, and my own interview this morning on BBC Radio 5Live linked to today’s conference in Leeds on disability hate crime

Sicknote Britain’s fabulous beasts

So here we go again. The incapacity benefit myth is getting another airing only this time the emphasis is a little different, the rhetoric a little softer, the message ostensibly more empowering

Don't get even, get angry

Sorry to get this blog off on a cynical note, but the retrospective hand-wringing following on from the Fiona Pilkington inquest verdict has been entirely predictable