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Katharine Quarmby is a freelance writer, journalist and film-maker specialising in social affairs with an investigative edge. She has spent most of her working life as a journalist and has made many films for the BBC, as well as a stint as a correspondent for the Economist and contributing to British broadsheets, including the Guardian, Sunday Times and the Telegraph. She was nominated for the Paul Foot Award 2012 for her five years of campaigning on disability hate crime. Her book, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people (Portobello, 2011) won the AMIA International Literature Award 2011. Her second book, on Gypsies, Roma and Travellers in the UK will be published by Oneworld next year.

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Disability hate crime and three wishes for our Paralympic legacy, Notebook

Disability hate crime and three wishes for our Paralympic legacy

Compare and contrast the cheering crowds that lauded our Paralympian medal winners with the focus group research, carried out recently by the Glasgow Media Group, that found that a representative sample of the British population believes that between half and three-quarters of all disability benefit claimants are scroungers.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 12 September 2012 at 3:00 pm

Why children should see Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Private Peaceful’, Arts

Why children should see Michael Morpurgo’s ‘Private Peaceful’

Michael Morpurgo’s book Private Peaceful is one of his grimmest books for children. You don’t get much bleaker than a young soldier in World War One reflecting on his short life as he waits for military justice to be carried out. It has now been made into a film, and I took my children to the preview at the weekend.

By | Arts, Film | Monday, 10 September 2012 at 10:28 am

Gypsy culture is much more than dresses and make-up, Arts

Gypsy culture is much more than dresses and make-up

Ask anyone in the street what the word “Gypsy” means to them and they will almost certainly come up with “Dale Farm” or Big Fat Gypsy Wedding.

By | Arts, Notebook, Opinion | Monday, 23 July 2012 at 1:00 am

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