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Saturday, July 12, 2025

Fixed Incomes, Rising Costs: How Trump’s 20% Tariff Spike Violates Disability Rights

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Two days ago, I sent a formal letter to Canada’s Minister of International Trade, expressing my deep concern over President Trump’s newly ...
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Wednesday, July 9, 2025

Watered-Down Welfare Bill: A Betrayal of Sick and Disabled People

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My Reaction I feel profound disappointment and frustration. Even in its watered-down form, the bill still carves out cuts that will leave f...

Urgent Call for Scrutiny of the Department for Work and Pensions

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The sweeping cuts to welfare provision—ranging from tightened eligibility for Employment and Support Allowance to the controversial sanctio...
Tuesday, July 8, 2025

Are there welfare assessments in the United States that have driven welfare recipients to suicide like in Britain?

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  Welfare Assessments in the U.S. and Suicide Risk In the United Kingdom, mandatory face-to-face “Work Capability Assessments” for disabili...

Motability Mockery: Could Sarah Vine Face Hate Crime Charges? (A Copilot response)

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  Understanding Disability Hate Crime in the UK Disability hate crime combines a criminal offence with hostility or prejudice against a per...

From DWP to Deficit: Why Britain Won’t Force Employers to Hire the Disabled

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  Back when Ian Duncan Smith was running the Department for Work & Pensions, I spoke to Vox Political and asked a simple question: why a...
Sunday, July 6, 2025

Copilot responds to blacklisting accusations of John Pring's Disability News Service by the Government

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  There is documented evidence that John Pring , editor of Disability News Service (DNS) , has faced institutional pushback—particularly fro...
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Samuel Miller
Samuel Miller, 68, was born with cerebral palsy. He is a graduate of McGill University's English Department and is a literary disabilities specialist. Inspired in the 1970's by the works of Christy Brown and the "disability" plays of Canadian David Freeman, he began studying on his own the portrayal of the physically and mentally handicapped in world literature. This was a period when Disability Studies programs were non-existent and when there were only a handful of scholars--mostly non-disabled--who were investigating this field. Among them was renowned American literary critic Leslie Fiedler,whom he was fortunate to meet. Samuel is the former editor and publisher of Disabled Writers' Quarterly: The International Literary Magazine Of Physically Disabled Writers. He also served as book review editor of the newsletter of the National Educational Association Of Disabled Students (NEADS), based at Carleton University, in Ottawa. He served on its Board of Directors as Quebec representative when NEADS was awarded the 1990 Commonwealth Youth Service Award.
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