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Dis Life: 'Tories' spending small fortune making poor disabled people live in penury'

Anna Morell asks when will the Tories begin to listen and stop the bone-exposing cuts that are leading to actual loss of life, as the Government spends a small fortune on trying to deliberately put poor disabled people back in their box

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Putting an actor in a fat suit to play an obese character on screen is ableist hogwash'

Anna Morell, who works for Disability Rights UK, says actor Brendan Fraser's interviews about his role in a fat suit, beg the question: why are we still using fat suits like this?

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Putting the "men" in 'menopause' at the expense of disability rights'

Disability Rights UK campaigner Anna Morell argues that women are not getting a fair deal when it comes to taking time off during the menopause

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Dis Life: 'I like to move it, move it - but I can’t due to lack of sense on transport'

Travelling on trains and planes is a nightmare for disabled people just trying to get to their destinations as common sense goes out the window, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

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Dis Life: 'Avert your eyes from Prince Harry and fix them back on the decimated NHS'

Disability campaigner Anna Morell urges Brits to remove their gaze from Prince Harry's bombshell memoir Spare and pay attention again to the underfunding of the NHS by the Tories

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'My freezing 4-hour train ride shows transport accessibility is off the rails'

Railway accessibility remains awful for wheelchair users and things will only get worse if plans to cut staff go ahead, writes Anna Morell after a recent trip to London

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Dis Life: 'Disabled people are struggling under historically punitive living conditions'

Energy bills are so out of control that the ludicrous question of 'heat or eat' has been extended to 'heat, eat or lifesaving equipment on or off', writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

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Dis Life: 'Disabled people are not a lump to be pitied under the disempowering 'V word''

"The Vulnerable" is a name better suited to a crap indie band than to a complex, fully-rounded community of people, writes Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Businesses must hire more people with learning disabilities - they're an asset'

Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK says every leadership team in every corporate and government board needs somebody with learning disabilities because they bring the common sense that is sometimes lost

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Dis Life: 'Disabilities are overlooked when school attendance rates are scrutinised'

Anna Morell, from Disability Rights UK, says while poverty is a factor in looking at the plummeting school attendance rates - taking into account disability is imperative to ensuring future generations are able to succeed academically

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Disabled Brits face more cuts and hoops to jump through to prove we are worthy'

Disability campaigner Anna Morell says that Therese Coffey burying the white paper won't 'shine a public light on the things which need fixing in the systems for which she is responsible'

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Conference showed having disabled people in government can bring change for better'

Disability campaigner Anna Morell says this week's Labour Party conference showed that there won't be much-needed change across society unless there are disabled people in government

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Disabled people's relief as Liz Truss threw out damaging bill - we feel heard'

Mirror columnist Anna Morell says disabled people feel gratitude towards new PM Liz Truss after she threw out the old Bill of Rights Bill which threatened to drag them to 'Victorian asylums'

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Disabled people were effectively shut out of paying their respects to Queen'

Disability campaigner Anna Morell says disabled people were initially told they were not allowed to hang onto vital food, medicine, or use umbrellas as walking canes as part of the queue for the Queen's lying in state

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Coronation Street star warns disabled people have been killed by Tories' Covid failure

Cherylee Houston, who plays Izzy Armstrong on the ITV soap, wept as she said: 'If we were put on that agenda, we wouldn’t have had that many people die. That’s abhorrent. We're not seen as human'

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Dis Life: 'The accessible queue for queen's lying in state showed gaps we have to fill'

Anna Morell, from Disability Rights UK, says while equality was achieved with the accessible queue for the Queen's lying in state - it still wasn't equitable as it shut hours before the non-disabled one did

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Dis Life: 'I don’t always want to be pushed around in a wheelchair'

Anna Morell, from Disability Rights UK, says she doesn't want to feel like a toddler 'plonked in a chair with tiny wheels', and wants wheelchairs with 'big wheels you can self-propel'

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Most schools are failing disabled pupils - we don't need no education'

Disability campaigner Anna Morell says when Tony Blair came to power, his mantra was education, education, education - but we know that education budgets have been squeezed for well over a decade

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Dis Life: 'Disabled people spend a lot on adaptations and support - £150 is not enough'

Anna Morell of Disability Rights UK says £150 is a packet of peanuts for disabled people, who spend around £600 a month more than non-Disabled people on adaptations and support

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'What exactly is the Government hiding in its unreleased benefits reports?'

Anna Morell from Disability Rights UK says claimants aren't even told what their prospective new benefits will be until a week before they are paid them – they have to wait a month to find out

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Crisis in social care is not fixed at all - disabled people wait for months'

Anna Morell says by November, there will be 400,000 people waiting for a care assessment. That’s double the total a year ago. Social care is supposed to be about living independently, with dignity

Daily Mirror

Dis Life: 'Singers using S word in their lyrics make disabled people feel invisible'

Anna Morell says Americans often use the slur without thinking about context, but in a country in which a quarter of all adults are disabled, that flippancy is a part of dismissing disabled people

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