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65,000 hate crimes against disabled people and rising. This has to stop., Notebook

65,000 hate crimes against disabled people and rising. This has to stop.

Last night the ITV Tonight programme led the way with a documentary looking at the rise if disability hate crime, press propaganda and palpable apathy on the issue.

By | Notebook, Opinion | Friday, 24 August 2012 at 12:02 pm

Is MP Stephen Lloyd proud of what the Government has been doing on disability?, Health

Is MP Stephen Lloyd proud of what the Government has been doing on disability?

“I think,” he says, in the tone you’d use if someone was asking you this question a lot, “we’re doing the right thing. There are two million children growing up in this country in households where no one works. There are six or seven million people of working age who, for one reason or another, are on benefits.

By | Health, Notebook, Opinion | Wednesday, 1 August 2012 at 2:00 am

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