Robert is FT to burst

Was that a collective gasp of astonishment which went round the Disability Now operations hub? It was. The FT, of all papers, and its news editor, of all people, coming on like Colonel Huff-Puffington about the notion of disability hate crime.

We were pleased to discover that Robert Shrimsley himself does not hate what he termed “the disabled” – though he clearly doesn’t know that many of us hate that term – but he did pour scorn on the idea that there are people who vent their hate against disabled people by, among other things, appropriating all their money, locking them in garden sheds and, as happened in the most recent case in Hartlepool, pissing on a disabled woman for the benefit of bystanders and their mobile phones.

Mr Shrimsley clearly needs to get out more. Perhaps a long weekend in Hartlepool?