Published by the i paper (29th October, 2018) Imagine that it was your son, your daughter, your sister, your brother. Taken away by the state against their will […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Shut away and threatened like animals
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement
Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Animals would not be treated this badly
Published by The i paper (22nd October, 2018) Stephanie Bincliffe left school at 16 and lived for two years on her own with help of a full-time carer. […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Bedlam is still with us in Britain
Published by The i paper (8th October, 2018) Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marley’s music, spending time with animals and being […]
Disability / Health / Immigration / Policy / Social care
Why does Britain care so little for its sick, disabled and elderly citizens?
Published by The Daily Mail (26th September, 2018) My daughter Iona had a seizure at 5am yesterday. Her eyes rolled, she screamed, her limbs flailed and her body […]
Aid / Disability
The Tories push disability rights abroad while ignoring them at home
Published by The i paper (23rd July, 2018) Although the post of development secretary is one of the easiest in the Cabinet, involving posing as a saviour of […]
Disability / Health / Policy
So many deaths by indifference
Published by The i paper (7th May, 2018) On Friday morning, as the nation woke up to local election results, a report was slipped out by the National […]
Denmark / Disability / Europe / Health / Policy
A world without Down’s Syndrome children?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th February, 2018) Watching Erica Gaarn-Larsen playing with her six-year-old son Philip in their third-floor flat in central Copenhagen, it is hard […]
Disability / Economics
Neglect of disabled people is shameful waste of talent and resources
Published by The Telegraph (2nd December, 2017) Theresa May wants to get a million more people with disabilities into work over the next decade, pledging to tinker with […]
Disability / Health / Policy
Who will help care for my daughter after Brexit?
Published by The Mail on Sunday (5th November, 2017) I came downstairs to find my wife looking dismayed and frazzled. One of the team caring for our disabled […]
Disability / Health / Policy
As I know myself, there can be no winners in the Charlie Gard case
Published by The Guardian (26th July, 2017) At the centre of the Charlie Gard story, which has captured global attention, is one simple thing: the tragedy of a […]