Answer to a stubborn problem, he said, coyly…

Right then, if your analgesic drugs cause you serious constipation – and if they’re effective, they will – then sit up straight and pay attention. There is a remedy.

I’ve tried all the usual remedies

International Day of Disabled Persons 2010

For the International Day of Disabled Persons 2010, on December 3, what I’d like to see in this country, given that this day is sponsored by the UN, is for the

BBC Disability Survey…

If you’re disabled, and want to know what people think of you, try this for size

The Equality Act 2010.

The DDA has been largely replaced by the Equality Act 2010, of which the website says:-

The Equality Act 2010 aims to protect disabled people and prevent disability discrimination. It provides legal rights for disabled people in the areas of:

An appeal to the unions…

Further to my previous post, I should like to ask you all, and as many others as you can enlist, to email Unite’s Head of Political Department, John O’Regan, asking that Unite, and

Unions – the sick and disabled need your support…

The Coalition is dedicated to persecuting the sick and disabled, and now Milliband says Labour will  cuddle up to the “squeezed middle” of society. Great, they don’t give a shit about us either.

There is the possibility of support from the unions, as Unite’s  Len McCluskey’s ‘alliance of resistance’ speech hits the news, aimed at forcing the government to step back from plans to ‘decimate the very fabric of the welfare state’.

You know, this might actually work. The sick and disabled have no

The Guardian’s Comment is Free moderation needs transparency…

I wrote, some time back, about the poor quality of moderation in the Guardian’s Comment is Free section, especially the habit of deleting any comments questioning the impartiality of the moderators, no matter how polite and reasonable.

The comment thread following this article, discussing the first student demo/riot (depending on which side of the argument you’re on), protesting about the grant cuts, and also covering the fact that the cabinet is so badly out of touch with reality because 18 of the buggers are millionaires, to whom the concept of a day’s work is, for the most part, entirely alien, is studded with deletions. And there are bound to be many deletions we don’t even know about, as comments seem to vanish without trace, as I mentioned in my original post,

And a thought occurred to me

Twitter censorship…

Twitter is blocking the Demo2010 hashtag.

I’ve been following that all day on Twitter, and I’ve seen no reason for this censorship at all. The question is – who is behind it?

Go on, bet you can’t guess?

They want you dead, then blame the GPs…

As I said yesterday, admissions to hospital are to be restricted, putting the chronically sick in even more danger. Today, this appears in Pulse:-

What I’m reading today, November 23…

Still tediously crawling through Francis Parkman’s The Oregon Trail (Kindle), and, god, it’s dull. As far as I can see there was no reason for this ill-equipped and ill-considered expedition other than Parkman’s obsession with the Plains Indians, whom he tended to regard as rather lethal children. I’m amazed he survived.

Pretty sure he was gay, too, given that he rhapsodises