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Profile: The Last Leg
By: A.C. Last year during the Paralympics, Channel 4 started a live daily post-Olympics show called The Last Leg. Hosted by prosthetic leg wearing Australian Adam Hills, assisted by Alex Brooker, who also has a disability of his own, and … Continue reading
Losing Motability
By: A.C. It has more than abundantly clear to our readership, that the disabled under the present UK Government have been targeted for swingeing cuts on benefits and welfare. Sixteen year old Paralympian and Commonwealth Games athlete Kayleigh Haggo from … Continue reading
Possible Benefits Changes?
By: A.C. Last year I wrote an article regarding tax payments which cost me a great deal of money repaying Income Tax through no fault of my own. At that time I had also read about a proposal by Ian … Continue reading
Rights
By: A.C Several libraries could be filled with the opinions, research and ideas of many intellectuals and philosophers, who have tried over the last few hundred years to understand why poverty, social need, disability and welfare is not something that … Continue reading
Smartphones
By: A.C. A report out today “found people in Scotland spent more time on media and communications than other UK nations”. It goes into statistics and percentages of what devices are used, how folk access news, social media and what … Continue reading
ATOS and the Commonwealth Games
By: A.C. Hopefully, despite the troubling problem of Norovirus “doing the rounds” amongst security staff, all will go smoothly. One Company “Sponsor member” that will be there regardless, despite the Norovirus, is ATOS. Somehow I missed this fact, or perhaps … Continue reading
The hierarchy of disability
<Editor’s note: Aberdeen Action on Disability regard all of our service users as equals. If we can help, we will help, regardless of who you are or the severity or cause of your condition.> By:A.C. How disabled people see themselves, … Continue reading
Hate Crime
By:A.C. In researching this article about ‘hate crime’ against the disabled, I was faced with a barrage of statistics and conflicting reasons for what is legislated here. “Hate crime involves any criminal offence motivated by malice and ill-will towards a … Continue reading
Expenses and Hypocrisy
<Editor’s Note: This is an opinion piece, and represents no more or less than one person’s view. It has been published with starting a conversation in mind.> By: A.C. I tend to give political matters on this blog a bit … Continue reading
Hidden Disability 2
By: A.C. Last year, I wrote about Hidden Disability, and the Hierarchy of Disability, which was to illustrate as best as I could, how both visibly disabled people, and society in general view hidden disability. Recently, BBC 3 has been … Continue reading →