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Ellie Weeps for Us All
Ellie Simmonds is a small woman. She is a Dwarf. I am an even smaller woman with Osteogenesis Imperfecta (Brittle Bones). On April 5th 2022 I watched Ellie do something quite revolutionary. Appearing in a mainstream television programme (The End of Dwarfism? BBC One)...
People Love Real Work
Ian Duncan Smith, the well-known architect of Universal Credit, said “Don’t bring in universal basic income during pandemic as it would be a ‘disincentive to work” (Independent, March 19th 2020). What world does this man live in? Well, to be fair he might be right in...
Parents For Inclusion Show What Inclusion Looks Like
On Saturday June 2nd 2018 I saw a glimpse of the future, and it looked good. I, as one of the The Trustees of Parents For Inclusion, a small not-for-profit organisation, had invited over eighty people to come together to think about the next stage of the struggle...
How The Labour Party Works
A Guide for the Bewildered by Micheline Mason 2017 Contents: What is the Labour Party Current Definition Democratic socialism What Does the Labour Party Stand For? How Your Local Party works The National Labour Party The Parliamentary Labour Party (PLP) How Does...
Brexiters Need Respect Not Spelling Corrections
The 'Left', including the Labour Party, are puzzling over the huge support for Farage, Trump, Brexit and the Britain First Brigade given by the blue-collar section of the working class. My Facebook news-feed is full of memes and 'jokes' about how racist, bigoted,...
Austerity – a Smokescreen for Eugenics
During the period December 2011 and February 2014 2,380 seriously ill people died after their money was stopped because the Government declared they were ‘fit for work.’ When challenged they claimed these figures were unrelated to their policies which they believed to...
America Wants to Take Over Our Health System
Have you noticed that every week on the Six o’ Clock News there is at least one story of how the NHS is failing? Have you begun to get a bit suspicious? Have you thought this seems like a planned strategy to get us to think the whole system is collapsing and needs to...
No To Selling Of Housing Association Properties
Last week David Cameron announced the latest of a long list of terrible policies aimed at wooing people to vote for their party on the 7th of May 2015, Election day. He wants to force providers of social housing, mostly Housing Associations, to sell off their most...
Young People and Classism in Britain
Ian Duncan Smith asks employers to employ British born young people in favour of foreigners, but they don’t want to. They say our home-grown youngsters are illiterate, can’t communicate and have no work ethic, unlike their Eastern European counterparts who speak and...
CELEBRATING SAMENESS
I recently watched with horror the television film called ‘Bulgaria’s Abandoned Children’. (BBC 2) “ It showed the day to day suffering of children in a large state institution whose parents had rejected them because they were said to have impairments. Like all who...