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IDS Resigns
By: A.C. I happened to be online late the other night, when newsrooms started to broadcast the breaking news that Iain Duncan Smith had resigned from the UK Government Cabinet. I was as puzzled by his resignation as David Cameron was … Continue reading
Lost Voice Guy
By: S.W. I decided to avoid the usual diet of Ant and Dec and associated stupidity available on a Saturday night to attend a comedy club known as “Breakneck Comedy”. I have only been to the club once before and found … Continue reading
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Dyslexia and Discrimination
By: A.C. I bring to your attention a report that appeared recently, about a woman who has dyslexia, and has won a Disability Discrimination Act tribunal against her employer Starbucks. Messeret Kumulchew was a supervisor at a branch of Starbucks … Continue reading
Human Rights, Europe and the UN
By: A.C. There are 30 Articles in the Declaration of Human Rights at the United Nations. Article 25 is one that concerns the disabled and their rights in welfare and social security, and employment. Article 25. (1)Everyone has the right to … Continue reading
Bus Pass Discrimination
By: A.C. It is no surprise that I read today of woman in Gloucestershire who was refused access to a Stagecoach bus. The woman presented her bus pass, for a journey she made daily to see her daughter, as she … Continue reading
PIP and Reality
By: A.C. It was with a wry smile I saw the inevitable but expected review by the UK Government on the definition of what disability is, as regards the qualification for PIP reported in by Frances Ryan in the Guardian. … Continue reading
ESA changes and Burns
By: A.C. It is ironic that on 25 January, 257 years since the birthday of Robert Burns, when thousands of Scots and others will toast the immortal memory of the Scots’ National Bard, the controversial Work and Welfare Reform Bill … Continue reading
Immigration, the NHS and Landlords
By: A.C. The Tory Conference this year does seem to have thrown up contradictory statements and promises of swingeing and radical legislation. Unfortunately, Theresa May the Home Secretary does not seem to like people who come from foreign lands and … Continue reading
Fringe Comments at Conference
By: A.C. The Tory party Conference 2015 did attract some fringe groupings, though one lobby group with lot to say for itself was the Taxpayers Alliance, which at fringe meeting, its Chairman stated an unsettling policy proposal for Hard–Right Tories … Continue reading
Conference and Universal Credit
By: A.C I try to be apolitical and have never joined a political party. However, I can spot when politicians engage in contradictory lies and hypocrisy, and that is not a hard task, because as the old joke says “you … Continue reading →