Becoming disabled by choice, not chance: ‘Transabled’ people feel like impostors in their fully working bodies
Oh, The Humanities: Part of a series showcasing research at the Congress of the Humanities and Social Sciences this week.
20 Mar 2016
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MPs overturn Lords' bid to delay disability benefit cuts
MPs have overturned attempts by peers to delay Government plans to cut £30 a week from some disabled people's benefits.
20 Mar 2016
Pilar Lima: “Institutions Need People with Different Abilities”
Pilar Lima is the first elected official who is deaf in Spain. She has a very extensive professional and activist career. She has been a volunteer at the Vicente Ferrer Foundation in Anantapur and also a professor in several public and private institutions that promote the divulgation of sign language. Among many other projects, she is a co-author of the book 'Sordo ¡y qué! (Deaf, so what!). In her first speech in the Senate, and with the assistance of an interpreter, she promised: "to work to eliminate any barriers that lead to inequality and infringe on human rights, through a participatory and transparent use of the Senate". Pilar sees the upcoming elections on December 20th as an opportunity to achieve this change.
20 Mar 2016
Norwich Lib Dems launch EU referendum campaign
Lib Dem activists took to the streets of Town Close ward this weekend to take part in the fight across the country to keep the UK in the EU.
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20 Mar 2016
Our Kind of Claygate
Claygate's three Liberal Democrat councillors Mary Marshall, Alex Coomes and Kim Cross are united in their commitment to...
20 Mar 2016
THE GOVERNMENT FINALLY NATIONALISES ALL OUR SCHOOLS
So the government has finally decided to nationalise education. At least we now know where we stand. So, if an academy fails under the new system, the buck goes straight to the Secretary of State and not, as now, to the Local Education Authority (which, I assume will simply disappear). When are we going to stop messing about with education? We are dealing with human beings, not building motor cars, for goodness sake. I note that the current secretary, like most of her cabinet colleagues, was educated privately. In the independent sector, business acumen and PR are part of the DNA of its member schools. "Sell yourself or go under"- and a few actually do! Some of you may be aware of the goings on at an academy chain in Lincoln where the former Executive Head and his Director of Finance recently went on trial and, to many local people's amazement, were acquitted. Only this week it was announced that another secondary academy, the one I taught at for 23 years, is having to face redundancies because of some of it'
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20 Mar 2016