Jenny Morris

Friday, 27 November 2015

'We' and 'People like you": collective responsibility and the common good

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I didn’t watch last night’s BBC Question Time (it’s a programme that’s bad for my blood pressure) but Twitter is awash this morning (27th N...
Friday, 30 October 2015

Independent living and disabled people: Rhetoric and reality

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As in most areas of current British policy, there is a yawning gap between government rhetoric and the actual impact of policies on disable...
Wednesday, 30 September 2015

Please don't talk about the "most vulnerable".

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Since 2010,  most political debates about disabled people have used the term “vulnerable” - or more often “most vulnerable” - to argue for ...
Thursday, 13 August 2015

The end game of welfare reform

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Over the next few months the Welfare Bill will wend its way through Parliament.  The reduction of benefit paid to people in the Employment ...
Wednesday, 15 July 2015

Reclaiming Our Futures

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Yesterday, 14th July 2015, I spoke at the Reclaiming Our Futures Alliance conference in Sheffield.  The number of people there, and the...
Friday, 19 June 2015

"This is starting to feel like a Monty Python sketch"

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So here’s the second of my blogposts based on ‘stuff’ that I’ve found difficult to throw away while clearing out my study.  (The first one w...
Sunday, 31 May 2015

Language and the small places of human rights

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I’ve spent this month (May 2015) not only feeling devastated by the general election result but also trying to clear out my study - both of...
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Jenny Morris
I used to spend my time using research and evidence to influence disability policy. I stopped doing that the week before the 2010 general election. Most of what I’ve written, including ‘Pride against Prejudice:transforming attitudes to disability’, has been posted on the Leeds Disability Archive - http://bit.ly/jennyarchive ...... Now I spend my time gardening.
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