What do you think: Tried cooking in Umbria? Social networking easier “hands-free”? Lost touch with old pension contributions? Tried cooking in Umbria? A traditional old farm with its own vineyards and olive groves is the perfect place to learn about…
What do you think: How to pick up men in Rome? Accessibility more than just lifts and ramps? Physical impairments limit work in the fitness industry? How to pick up men in Rome? Completely impossible to book passenger assistance…
What do you think? Time to show that having an impairment doesn’t stop you being utterably adorable and wildly sexy? Are “dating” programmes already toe-curlingly awful without throwing disability in to the mix? Isn’t everyone entitled to their 15 minutes…
What do you think? Is it easy to find the back-to-work help you need? Is one organisation going to have all the answers? Is local partnership working the answer to halving the number of disabled people out of work? When…
The All Party Parliamentary Group on Disability is asking for views about how the Government can fulfil its pledge to halve the number of unemployed disabled people. Responses can be made to APPGinquiry@disabilityrightsuk.org – deadline is 4 July. I have set out…
What do you think: When you complain about inaccessible information, does an equally inaccessible reply count? Should staff handling customer complaints be up-to-date about the law? If a bank ignores one bit of law, what other laws are they breaking?…
What do you think? Does responding to one discrimination with another just double the impact? Do you have similarly poor treatment from banks, insurance companies and other financial services? Isn’t it time that banks complied with the law? I wrote…
What do you think? Globalisation or greed causes economic inequality? Are disabled lifts good for you? Are banks exempt from equality legislation? It was a presentation by former colleague Professor Roger Brown at Southampton’s Solent University that piqued my interest. …
What do you think: Should Government information be available to the whole population? Should Government information comply with the law? Or don’t disabled people really matter? Depressing that the Government’s booklet setting out information about the EU referendum isn’t available…
What do you think: Is ill-health/disability the biggest barrier to full employment? Or is it employer discrimination? Or the lack of a cohesive and comprehensive disability employment strategy and the tools to deliver it? According to the Resolution Foundation’s recent…
