The Latest Breaking News from DR UK

Dis Life: 'Disabled people having to forgo heating or eating to run breathing equipment'

Some disabled people are so poor right now that the old heating vs eating chestnut has been pushed up a few unbelievable grades to breathing vs heating or eating

Daily Mirror · Jan 26, 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: '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

Daily Mirror · Sep 22, 2022

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 · Sep 7, 2022

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

Daily Mirror · Sep 2, 2022

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 · Aug 25, 2022

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 · Aug 18, 2022

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 · Aug 11, 2022

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

Daily Mirror · Aug 2, 2022