Philippa Willitts

How would you feel about having a mental health centre on your street? Photograph: Getty Images
Reading the objections to the Planning Permission application, you would think that they were proposing ...

Coping with Christmas: a survival guide for when fe...

Disability hate crimes can range from verbal abuse to murder, and include everything in between. They have been rising steeply over the last few years, with 2011 – the most recent statistics – being t...

Intrusive entitlement: disabled women as public pro...

March of the Food Snobs | Disability Intersections

Marte Dalelv: Norwegian woman convicted after repor...

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A joke that went round my school repeatedly was about a little boy going to a shop and buying some sanitary towels. When asked why, he explained that he wanted to be able to dance, and trampoline, rid...

The people's panel: According to charities, public abuse of disabled people is on the rise. Four readers tell their stories

When Mehdi Hasan recently wrote an article entitled, “Being pro-life doesn’t make me any less of a lefty”, he apparently thought he was bringing something new to the table. He was anti-abortion, yes, ...