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End to End: 60% Complete
I have now completed over 60% of my sponsored virtual challenge along Route 66 in aid of Ataxia UK. I am over the moon because the End to End website have planted a tree for me after I completed over 1350 miles of my trek, with more to follow as
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#SaveWILG Campaign Relaunched
As many of my regular readers will know, I have spent the last 5 years campaigning to protect independent living for disabled with high support
Government loses Universal Credit appeals against claimants with severe disabilities
The following article was taken from the website of the law firm Leigh Day. The original article can viewed by clicking here. There is precious
NBA Tutor Needed…
I spent the weekend watching basketball as I attempt to broaden my sporting interests. As an American Studies graduate who spent 6 months at the
Tweetathon
The following article was taken from the DPAC website. I would encourage all my readers to join in with this mass tweetathon and remind everyone
Searching for Someone…
It sounds like a cheesy pop lyric from the 1980’s. You can imagine a clean cut boy next door staring whimsically out of a train
Blog Featured on ICASA Website
This is a link to a previous blog entry that I have written, republished on the ICASA website. It is hoped that my words will
The Leader: Opponents of disabled living scheme in Wrexham criticised for “distressing” comments as plans are approved #SaveWILG
The following is an article from the Leader newspaper that was written by local democracy reporter Liam Randall (@LiamRandallLDR). The original article can be read
#SaveWILG Tweets
We have not forgotten… The #SaveWILG campaign managed to protect recipients of the Welsh Independent Living Grant, who are disabled people with high support needs.
Memory Match – 13-09-37
It has been a while since I last wrote a Memory Match column. I spent 2015-2018 writing these articles for the Wrexham AFC matchday programme when we
A Decade of Growth…
The annoyingly nameless decade that is rapidly drawing to a close has been a time of desperate struggle for many sick and disabled people living,
Dancing on Thin Ice – Reader Review
I was delighted to receive a review of Dancing on Thin Ice from Julia Kobel, who is someone I haven’t met, but picked up a
Dorset Eye – We Need A Day Of Reckoning: The BBC = Fake News
The following article was written by my good friend and comrade Adam Samuels and appears on the Dorset Eye website. The original article can be
The Dirty War on the NHS – This Tuesday on ITV
Due to the election last week, ITV felt obliged by the rules of the television regulator to embargo all basic publicity for John Pilger’s landmark
The election in the media: against evasion and lies, good journalism is all we [don’t] have – Alan Rusbridger
Hang Your Heads
According to Wikipedia, Tanka (短歌, “short poem”) is a genre of classical Japanese poetry and one of the major genres of Japanese literature. A Tanka