“Fools,” said Bismarck, “Say they learn by experience. I prefer to profit by other people’s experience”[1]. The British military historian and theorist B.H. Liddell Hart began his short and thought-provoking…

The Conservatives have often been accused of being driven by an ideology that serves the interest of dominant elites rather than those who need the most help. For example, despite…

The world has dramatically changed in response to COVID-19 and along with it, our definitions of health or illness. The relative speed of these changes—in contrast to most social changes…

There are numerous stories regarding how disabled people are being ignored during the current pandemic, such as the lack of testing of disabled people in care homes, ventilators usually provided…

In June 2020, I released a new report from a qualitative project with perinatal women in England during the England lockdown of spring 2020, listening to their accounts of having…

Isolation put on the table the discussion regarding access to rights, to essential goods, to water, electricity, and housing as part of an integral right to health[i]. At first, the…

One of the most striking features of the current pandemic has been the centrality of scientific experts. At the daily Downing Street Corona Briefing the mantra ‘led by the science’…

There are numerous difficulties faced by disabled people, who are just not seen as quite disabled enough within society. This can include the lack of access to disability benefits to…

The coronavirus pandemic has laid bare economic weakness around the world. Current practices, led by the airline industry and manufacturing companies, include measures such as downsizing the workforce, halting shareholder…