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Frustration over review’s failure to call Met police ‘institutionally disablist’

By John Pring on 30th March 2023 Category: Crime

Frustration over review’s failure to call Met police ‘institutionally disablist’
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Disabled campaigners have criticised a review of standards in the Metropolitan police for failing to conclude that the force is institutionally disablist, and then refusing to explain that decision. Baroness Casey’s review of the force’s culture and standards found one in […]

Commission ‘will hold government to account over pandemic failures’

By John Pring on 4th August 2022 Category: Independent Living

Commission ‘will hold government to account over pandemic failures’
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Six leading disabled people of colour are to play a key role in an inquiry that aims to hold the government to account for failing disabled people during the Covid pandemic. The commission will gather evidence and examine how the worst […]

Prime minister refuses to criticise Tory peers who made disablist comments

By John Pring on 10th June 2021 Category: Politics

Prime minister refuses to criticise Tory peers who made disablist comments
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The prime minister has refused to criticise four Conservative peers who made discriminatory and disablist remarks about disabled peers working in the House of Lords. Boris Johnson’s refusal to speak out came in response to a disabled constituent who wrote to […]

Minister for disabled people refuses to criticise disablist comments of Tory peers

By John Pring on 3rd June 2021 Category: Politics

Minister for disabled people refuses to criticise disablist comments of Tory peers
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The minister for disabled people appears to be condoning the behaviour of four Conservative peers who aimed discriminatory and disablist comments at disabled members of the House of Lords. The Conservative party has also refused to take any action over the […]

Election 2019: Disabled Lib Dems complain to their party over candidate’s disablist tweets

By John Pring on 21st November 2019 Category: Politics

Election 2019: Disabled Lib Dems complain to their party over candidate’s disablist tweets
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Disabled Liberal Democrats have sent a formal complaint to their own party after it failed to take disciplinary action against a general election candidate who admitted posting a string of disablist “jokes” on social media. The entire executive committee of the […]

Anger over appointment of ‘disability hate tweet’ MP as mental health minister

By John Pring on 1st August 2019 Category: Politics

Anger over appointment of ‘disability hate tweet’ MP as mental health minister
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A Tory MP appointed as the new minister for mental health in Boris Johnson’s government is unfit to hold that position because of a disablist message she posted on social media less than two years ago, say disabled campaigners. Nadine Dorries […]

Anger over Twitter’s ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude to disablist abuse

By John Pring on 25th February 2016 Category: Arts, Culture and Sport

Anger over Twitter’s ‘can’t be bothered’ attitude to disablist abuse
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Campaigners have cast doubt on Twitter’s commitment to protecting disabled people from vile disablist abuse on its social media platform. They spoke out after the media giant launched its new Twitter Trust and Safety Council, which it claimed would help “ensure […]

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