The Latest Breaking News from Anna Morell

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 · Feb 9, 2023

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 · Feb 8, 2023

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

Daily Mirror · Jan 25, 2023

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 · Nov 3, 2022

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

Daily Mirror · Oct 27, 2022

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 · Oct 20, 2022

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 · Oct 6, 2022

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 · Sep 29, 2022

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 · Sep 28, 2022

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

Daily Mirror · Sep 28, 2022