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Paralysed man Darek Fidyka walks again after pioneering surgery
20 Oct 2014: Medical team regrow cells of patient’s severed spine in breakthrough that offers hope to millions with disability
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22 Oct 2014:
Letters: I am less easily persuaded that it was a good idea to house The Vanity of Small Differences in a series of poky bedrooms across two floors of a minor stately home that is unable to offer full access to wheelchairs
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22 Oct 2014: At Kgosi Mampuru II jail in Pretoria where the Paralympian was sent on Tuesday, inmates with disabilities tell Daily Maverick of the daily hardships they face
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21 Oct 2014:
George Monbiot: Those in power don’t speak of ‘people’ or ‘killing’ – it helps them do their job. And we are picking up their dehumanising euphemisms
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21 Oct 2014: Radhika Holmström: Training scheme teaches taxi drivers and other firms how to respond to needs of visually impaired customers
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21 Oct 2014: Medical team regrow cells of patient’s severed spine in breakthrough that offers hope to millions with disability
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20 Oct 2014:
Aditya Chakrabortty: The lives of Britain’s most vulnerable people have been hit far harder than any other group by austerity cuts and vilification
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20 Oct 2014: South African president criticises defence team for arguing Olympian should be spared jail because he is disabled
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20 Oct 2014: Siobhan Meade: The discrimination Maya Makri experienced at Tesco is sadly not unusual for blind people – even though there are laws in place
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19 Oct 2014:
Shadow ministers say it is disgraceful that David Cameron has not removed Freud from his post as welfare minister
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17 Oct 2014:
Lyn Gardner: Ganesh Versus the Third Reich has been seen around the world. The Diverse Futures project is focusing on nurturing British equivalents to the Australian company
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17 Oct 2014: A new student is inducted into a secret world of teenage gangs and crime in this compelling and explicit film – which unfolds without subtitles, in eerie near-silence, writes Peter Bradshaw
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17 Oct 2014:
Authors and illustrators Alex Strick, Sean Stockdale and Ros Asquith set a couple of challenges for the next time you go to a library or bookshop – and here’s something you can do to make a difference with the ‘Everybody In’ campaign
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17 Oct 2014: Incidental diversity – where a character’s difference is mentioned but not highlighted – is on the rise. But disability and difference informs a huge chunk of people’s lives, whether good or bad, and it’s not shameful to acknowledge that. Corinne Duyvis, author of YA sci-fi/fantasy Otherbound, wonders, are diverse characters only OK as long as they’re not too diverse?
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16 Oct 2014: Gaby Hinsliff: The clodhopping welfare reform minister isn’t the issue here – the rise in self-employment and fall in wages is
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16 Oct 2014:
Letters: Lord Freud was talking about a minority whose work could never justify the minimum wage, not the majority who could contribute fully
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