LOCOG gets a gold medal for disabled access
No, don’t be shocked: But on one issue at least, the London Olympic Organising Committee (LOCOG) has served as an example of good practice that every organisation ought to follow. Honestly.
By James Moore | Notebook, Olympics, Sport | Tuesday, 7 August 2012 at 11:02 am
The Invisible Man: When people pretend they don’t see you on the Tube
I’m a sucker for American comics. Batman, the X men, Green Lantern, can’t get enough. We all need a bit of escapism now and again. What I didn’t realise, however, was that when I became disabled I’d be able to live out my dreams by gaining real life superpowers.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Tuesday, 31 July 2012 at 9:03 am
How did a largely respectable industry go so wrong so quickly?
It’s usually foolish to look back into the past in the hope of finding some sort of mythical, halcyon “good old days”. They usually weren’t.
By James Moore | Eagle Eye, Econoblog | Thursday, 26 July 2012 at 5:22 pm
It could be me – but isn’t – in the postcode lottery
It had to happen eventually: in my efforts to recover from a spending a morning with an oil tanker on top of me I have come up against the postcode lottery. And my number is a losing one.
By James Moore | Health | Saturday, 2 June 2012 at 10:57 am
The road to recovery: What happens to people who don’t have the same support?
I’ve not written this blog for a while, principally because I’ve recovered sufficient fitness to return to my day job.
Being a full time financial journalist at a time of global financial turmoil would be exhausting enough were I not taking a pharmacological soup of different nuclear strength drugs to fend off the pain I still have to live with.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 22 May 2012 at 10:24 am
The medical profession has a strangely schizophrenic attitude when it comes to pain
For the last few months I’ve been learning all about pain.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Wednesday, 7 December 2011 at 1:54 pm
The cuts are causing me agony
The trouble with people like our esteemed Chancellor and his Chief Secretary to the Treasury is that they’re very clever people. Or at least they’re surrounded by people who tell them they’re clever.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 10 November 2011 at 3:28 pm
The Road to Recovery: An everyday tale of wheelchairs, raspberry jam & Campbell’s soup tasters
One thing being disabled has taught me is that there’s much more to Campbell’s soups than meets the eye.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 27 October 2011 at 10:52 am
The road to recovery: The hardest part is over
One thing that has always annoyed me is when people say “of course the hard part is yet to come” when they’ve quite obviously cleared the most challenging obstacles they face.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Thursday, 20 October 2011 at 9:23 am
The Road to Recovery: No wonder the NHS is strapped for cash…
…I’ve got a small fortune’s worth of specialist equipment no one seems to want back.
By James Moore | Health, Notebook | Tuesday, 4 October 2011 at 1:14 pm
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