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Disability / Health / Policy

Father of autistic girl treated like an animal and fed through a hatch sues NHS for torture and degradation

Published by The Mail on Sunday (16th December, 2018) The father of a teenage girl with autism locked for months in solitary confinement and fed through a hatch […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

MPs to investigate scandal of locked up youngsters with autism

Published by The Mail on Sunday (8th December, 2018) A parliamentary committee is to hold special sessions to investigate the scandal of youngsters with autism and learning disabilities […]

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Aid / Disability

How charities are corrupted by Whitehall

Published by UnHerd (30th November, 2018) The National Health Service has been ordered to start looking into the deaths of patients in mental health units to learn from […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Profiteers of misery

Published by The Mail on Sunday (11th November, 2018) A cluster of ‘fat cat’ private operators is creaming off hundreds of millions of pounds from the NHS after […]

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Disability / Health / Politics

The shame of imprisoning people for autism

Published by the i paper (29th October, 2018) Imagine that it was your son, your daughter, your sister, your brother. Taken away by the state against their will […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Shut away and threatened like animals

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) When Adele Green saw her 13-year-old son Eddie after his first month in a specialist hospital supposed to be […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Scandal of autistic youngsters locked in solitary confinement

Published by The Mail on Sunday (28th October, 2018) Hundreds of people with autism and learning disabilities are being locked up in appalling conditions, routinely abused and stuffed […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

Bedlam is still with us in Britain

Published by The i paper (8th October, 2018) Bethany is 17 years old. She is a girl who likes Bob Marley’s music, spending time with animals and being […]

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Aid / Disability

The Tories push disability rights abroad while ignoring them at home

Published by The i paper (23rd July, 2018) Although the post of development secretary is one of the easiest in the Cabinet, involving posing as a saviour of […]

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Disability / Health / Policy

So many deaths by indifference

Published by The i paper (7th May, 2018) On Friday morning, as the nation woke up to local election results, a report was slipped out by the National […]

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Denmark / Disability / Europe / Health / Policy

A world without Down’s Syndrome children?

Published by The Mail on Sunday (4th February, 2018) Watching Erica Gaarn-Larsen playing with her six-year-old son Philip in their third-floor flat in central Copenhagen, it is hard […]

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Disability / Economics

Neglect of disabled people is shameful waste of talent and resources

Published by The Telegraph (2nd December, 2017) Theresa May wants to get a million more people with disabilities into work over the next decade, pledging to tinker with […]

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Ian Birrell is an award-winning columnist, foreign correspondent, feature writer and investigative journalist. He is contributing editor of The Mail on Sunday, a weekly columnist in The i Paper and writes frequently for other papers and platforms. He is also co-founder with Damon Albarn of Africa Express, the acclaimed collaborative music project. (Pictured: Talking to refugees in Iraq fleeing Islamic State)... Read More.

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