All news by author: Rachel Charlton-Dailey

For too long when disabled people are given the bare minimum to allow us to survive we’re expected to thank our oppressors

On Saturday The Mirror revealed the first lockdown party video - the party happened on the day it was announced the infection rate was so high in London that it would be moving into Tier 3

The view of disability presented is so black and white, you’re either 'fit and healthy' or you’re viewed as 'suffering' from a condition, miserable and constantly in pain

These dangerous narratives ignore how the welfare system fails disabled people and the struggles we face

The EMIS software, which is used in approximately half of GP surgeries, primary care facilities, dentists and community pharmacies in England, had outages for most of Friday

The whole thing would be incredibly laughable - grown men who work for the worst government in decades running about doing terrible pastiches of crime thrillers - if it wasn’t pushing such a dangerous narrative

Disability rights should be part of the curriculum so that all children learn about it and all disabled people can see themselves represented

To do that we need funded mental health services, instead of an NHS that is facing cuts of billions and being carved up and sold off to their Conservative pals

Often when disabled people are asked about their conditions we’re asked “what’s wrong?” This insinuates as is often the case, that being disabled is a bad thing

When people are struggling to live we must do more to help them than offer them entertainment in the form of pageantry

The Conservatives publicising their benefit fraud raids is a tactical campaign to get the public’s support in killing disabled and other at-risk people

The government have brought in a law that in order to vote you must have ID, this means that unless you have a valid ID you will be turned away

Labour claimed billions lost to benefit error and fraud could’ve paid for another cost of living payment, but we need to stop pitting the most vulnerable against each other

I’ve written extensively on much I hate well-known actors winning awards for sitting in wheelchairs and playing roles where being disabled is the worst possible thing someone can be

When everyone was pushed into shock lockdown on March 23rd, 2020, we’d already been in it for at least a week

Dr Hannah Barham-Brown had been in London to attend a Motability event at the House of Lords when she was stuck on the fourth floor of a hotel in the middle of a fire alarm

Report found that 33 per cent of staff with a disability or long-term illness have experienced bullying. Disability was also the most recurring tribunal claim brought against the Met in recent years

Lockdowns are still viewed as the worst thing that happened in during the pandemic - when it should be the travesty of how many disabled people were allowed to perish

Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, Rachel Charlton-Dailey, asks where are the different types of disabled women to be trotted out by corporations for International Women's Day - and not just one well-off white woman in a wheelchair?

Thérèse Coffey is wrong that people simply need to 'work more hours' in order to boost their incomes, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, Rachel Charlton-Dailey, says

Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, says media ableism happens every single day and can be seen in the use of outdated words such as 'wheelchair-bound'

Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, says the book-writing world is a horrendously hard space to access as a disabled woman

Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, says she refuses to simply write whatever the government asks her to, after questioning a new 'announcement' from Westminster

Disabled people battle constantly to be called what they are, with AP Styleguide's recent tweet a "vomit-inducing" example of the problem, says Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

South Shields lost out in its bid for the second round of the Tory government's Levelling Up funding, but the North East was also revealed to have the highest proportion of disabled people in the country