This afternoon I went to the Liberty Festival, an annual event celebrating the contribution of disabled people to the arts and culture. It was held at a different and less accessible venue from previous years and its scale and scope had been cut back.…
There have been riots in many areas of London over the last few days. The first riots started in Tottenham after Mark Duggan was shot and killed by police last week. From there, unrest has spread to other parts of the city, including Peckham.…
Earlier I read about some comments made by Conservative MP Philip Davies that were so ridiculous that to start with I didn’t believe they were real. I was wrong. He was being accurately quoted:
“Given some of those people with a learning disability clearly, by definition, cannot be as productive in their work as somebody who has not got a disability of that nature, then it was inevitable given the employer was going to have to pay them both the same they were going to take on the person who was going to be more productive, less of a risk….…
A few days ago I mentioned it was National Carers Week. While I’m writing this, Poppy’s in the other room cooking up a storm. She’s making dinner for tonight and also stuff to freeze which I can eat in the next few days.…
This tic made Leftwing Idiot laugh so much he wasn’t able to speak for several minutes. It’s clearly Tourettes celebrating the start of National Carers Week, which began yesterday.
Simple. You risk getting an on the spot fine of £80.
During June, Barnsley police are having a crackdown on swearing in public. I’m one of the 10% of people with Tourettes who swear involuntarily, so I took a particular interest in this story.…
I woke up this morning in a reflective mood. Last night along with Leftwing Idiot and Poppy, I saw Mark Thomas’s incredible and thought provoking show, Extreme Rambling – Walking the Wall, currently in its last few days at the Tricycle Theatre.…
This morning I took part in another big protest in central London. This time it was the Hardest Hit march, the largest ever protest by disabled people.
Reports on the exact numbers varied. The organisers estimated 9,000 people, the police said 8,000 and the BBC reported ‘over 1,000.’…
I’ve been working late this evening so I’ve only just got back to the lair, and I’m feeling angry and depressed. It isn’t anything tic-related this time. It’s about a consultation meeting organised by the Council about cuts to services in the local area which I took a group of children to earlier.…
The government’s spending cuts are brutal, hitting crucial frontline services throughout the country. Today I joined thousands of people on a protest march through central London, organised by the TUC.
I’ve been on protests before but they’ve always been against war and violence in other countries.…
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