Return to: Home | Columns

Crip's Column

View from my wheelchair - Victoria Brignell on life as a disabled person.

Articles in Crip's Column

Results 11 to 20 of 37

Previous
Page 1
2
3
4
Next

Society

Dangerous disabled people I

06 January 2009
3 comments

Sinners tend to be more interesting than saints. Wickedness and wrongdoing seem to fascinate more than good deeds and gallantry, so instead of disabled role models...

Society

A sitting target

10 November 2008

It's estimated that 65 million people worldwide require a wheelchair but more than 20 million of them do not own one which can mean no school or participate fully in lfie

Society

Wheelchairs I

07 October 2008
3 comments

The perils of the electric wheelchair have left Victoria Brignell stranded on more than one occasion. Here she talks us the highs and lows of her different sets of wheels

Society

Sleeping

08 September 2008
1 comment

'I dreamt that I saw Iain Duncan Smith riding on an ostrich through Parliament Square. Make of that what you will.' Victoria Brignell on insomnia and other matters...

Sport

Oh dear it's the Paralympics

08 August 2008
8 comments

As the most glittering festival of disability sport approaches, I'm faced with my usual dilemma: to watch or not to watch? Victoria Brignell struggles with an antipathy towards sport...

Asia

Where there is art there is hope

01 July 2008

How the disabled - many of them victims of a long-running and bloody conflict - are helping bridge the ethnic divide in Sri Lanka against a background of escalating violence

World Affairs

A miracle convention for the disabled?

03 June 2008
2 comments

Fine words without actions are meaningless but actions usually only come about after fine words have been written - Victoria Brignell celebrates a new UN convention

Life & Society

Sliding doors

06 May 2008
2 comments

How much being disabled has altered the course of a life - Victoria Brignell ponders whether being in a wheelchair has actually made all that much difference...

Society