The Privileged Children
Today I’m going to take you on a journey in your mind.  You are infant school age and disabled, and  off to boarding school, for the first time.  You are privileged because your school is not ordinary, its special, and you will receive the the highest quality  education and care. Imagine that as well as being disabled you are ill, you don’t [...]

Confessions of a Pudsey Kid
Children In Need hits our screens again on Friday, the annual event where celebrities and and the general public alike do stunts and arrange events to raise money for children’s causes, under the mascot of a ‘disabled’ teddy.  The event does a lot of good and it raises money for many causes, including those related [...]

Labour’s Greatest Achievement?
Telegraph blogger, Ed West, calls welfare Labour’s worst crime, worse than the Iraq war.  I’ll agree they haven’t managed it well, though my reasons may be different.   However out of the ‘mess’  has come their greatest achievement, not one they are likely to want to admit to. Lets just look at a few of their policies   that have  [...]

Assisted suicide for or against?
As the Swiss Government consider legislation which could spell the end of ’suicide tourism’ where do you stand? I believe that everyone  has rights, as long as its legal, then every person has the right to lead the life they choose.  If you can choose how to live then logically you must be able to choose how [...]

Would you want a disabled persons ID Card?
An Identity Card Scheme in Nottinghamshire to help people with hidden impairments ‘prove’ their right to use disabled facilities, is set to go countywide after a trial.  Is it a good thing, and should there be a national scheme? I can see that it has advantages if you don’t have an obvious disability, then its a [...]