It’s the dramatic rise of China with its burgeoning economy that has put the Trump administration into a frenzy – with major implications both at home and abroad, argues MICHAEL BURKE
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SOPHIE WALTERS of Disabled People Against Cuts, asks — why were disabled people not given this option many years ago?
DR DAVID GORDON SCOTT tells the story of the North Sands Massacre, Sunderland, as part of the ongoing work of remembrance of those killed by soldiers during the 1825 Seafarers Strike and the bicentennial commemorations on Sunday August 3
MATT KERR charts his bike-riding odyssey in aid of the Royal Marsden charity and CWU Humanitarian Aid
JOHN CALLOW tells of the rise, fall and rise again of a young martyr to the early French republic, Joseph Bara, whose short life was elevated by Robespierre and, later, others for its emotional and ideological appeal
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OLIVER SNELLING, a south London stonecarver and yeoman stonemason, relates how he is helping bring about a new festival next month
THE coalition and Tory governments since 2010 have wrought immense pain and suffering on the disabled community, forcing so many of us into abject poverty with the deeply cruel benefits cuts.
More than 130,000 deaths have been directly caused by austerity, a large proportion of them of disabled people suffering the consequences of the deeply cruel government we find ourselves under.
A study published in December showed that homelessness among disabled people had increased by over 50 per cent in the span of a year.
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