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   <description><![CDATA[View from my wheelchair - Victoria Brignell on life as a disabled person.]]></description>
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   <title><![CDATA[Theatre nights]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/society/2009/11/theatre-wheelchair-ticket</link>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 16 Nov 2009 14:21:40 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Theatre facilities for the disabled have significantly improved but challenges remain</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[The moral dilemmas of a museum visit]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 12 Oct 2009 16:33:48 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Is it morally right that I should benefit from a reduced entry price purely because I use a wheelchair?</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Accessible toilets]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 31 Aug 2009 23:07:44 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Why bog standard should be a fully accessible standard</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Fashion]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 30 Jul 2009 11:38:11 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Those involved in the fashion world shouldn't forget that one of the most beautiful women in art is the Venus de Milo - a woman with no arms.</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Voice]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Tue, 05 May 2009 14:57:28 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Victoria Brignell on Chelmsford, the power of radio and a particularly limiting aspect of her disability</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Penfriend]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Mon, 30 Mar 2009 11:17:11 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>How a bond formed at 13 with an Australian penfriend led Victoria Brignell to embark on a deception that has lasted two decades</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Assisted death 2]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 20 Feb 2009 10:17:29 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>Helping people who are suddenly physically disabled so they avoid despair and learn to adjust and enjoy life might prevent tragedies like the case of Daniel James </em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Assisted death]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Fri, 30 Jan 2009 11:21:25 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>The tragic death by assisted suicide of a young rugby player who chose to die because he'd been rendered paralysed raises all sorts of difficult ethical issues</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Dangerous disabled people III]]></title>
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   <pubDate>Thu, 08 Jan 2009 11:50:09 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>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...</em></p>

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   <title><![CDATA[Dangerous disabled people II]]></title>
   <link>http://www.newstatesman.com/blogs/crips-column/2009/01/germany-wilhelm-war-austria</link>
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   <pubDate>Wed, 07 Jan 2009 11:23:43 GMT</pubDate>
   <dc:creator>Victoria Brignell</dc:creator>
  
 <description><![CDATA[<p><em>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...</em></p>

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