Disability

In her monthly column, Penny Pepper wonders what new threats disabled and elderly people will face as the season turns

Examining the 'lazy framing' around disability in sport where the focus is often on 'the accident, the drama, the blood, the pain' and not the competition

Disabled people may have been cheering the end of Tory rule – but their trust has not been won by Labour, writes Penny Pepper

Every change that improves the lives of disabled people has been predominantly led by disabled people themselves, whose stories are overlooked or misappropriated, writes Penny Pepper

'They have voted at every opportunity and have actively sought out and studied the various political parties, claims and policies. Once voter ID came to this country, they found the ID process a challenge'

There are 14 million disabled people in the UK – are politicians even considering them in this election campaign?

The Prime Minister and his wife's personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began

This text is not about Baby Reindeer, Netflix’s latest hit. It’s about one of the most perverse dimensions of sanism and anti-madness: the exploitation of madness as an edifying aesthetic resource. It is also about the obsolescence of narratives centered on the uncritical perspective of the traditional agent of the banality of evil, the mediocre […]

For Penny Pepper, debates about changing the law on assisted suicide are a way in for a dangerous, niggling, idea of how we should value disabled people’s lives

Saba Salman reports on a significant project that involves people with learning disabilities addressing the issues directly and shaping the narrative