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Crippled
We are sorry this title is currently out of stock in your selected territory. Please check back or contact us for more information. 80% off New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain’s 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse.
Crippled
20% off 20% off 20% off New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain's 14 million disabled people In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers. From social care to the benefits system, politicians and the media alike have made the case that Britain’s 12 million disabled people are nothing but a drain on the public purse.
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Crippled Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People -1 0 1 Paperback Paperback with free ebook $19.95$11.9740% off 256 pages / September 2020 / 9781788739566 Paperback Paperback with free ebook $24.95$9.9860% off 240 pages / June 2019 / 9781786637888 The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights. New updated edition includes the impact of COVID on Britain’s 14 million disabled people. In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers.
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Afterlives of Chinese Communism Political Concepts from Mao to Xi Edited by Ivan Franceschini, Nicholas Loubere, and Christian Sorace -1 0 Paperback Paperback $34.95$24.4630% off 416 pages / June 2019 / 9781788734769 Hardback Hardback $110.00$88.0020% off 416 pages / July 2019 / 9781788734790 Seventy years after the Chinese Revolution of 1949, what remains of Mao’s communist legacy?
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Donald Trump's recent outbursts against Representatives Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, Ilhan Omar, Rashida Tlaib, and Ayanna Pressley have been roundly condemned. But what has often been neglected in the ensuing controversy is the background in Nancy Pelosi's extraodinary attacks on the four congresswomen. Instead, argues Eli Zaretsky, what we need is a Democratic party who, unlike Pelosi, can stand up for the most vulnerable.
Camp Bestival news: Cardboard Castle is back at Camp Bestival for it's tenth year and to celebrate w…
Latest update from Camp Bestival Cardboard Castle is back at Camp Bestival for it’s tenth year and to celebrate we’re (and we need your help for this!) going to be creating the biggest, best and most colourful one yet! ✂️👨🎨👩🎨🎨🖍🖌🏆 “I have been moved many times by the creativity, humour and skill of the thousands of participants who have blobbed paint and scribbled messages on the Cardboard Castle over the years.
Camp Bestival news: Cardboard Castle is back at Camp Bestival for it's tenth year and to celebrate w…
Latest update from Camp Bestival Cardboard Castle is back at Camp Bestival for it’s tenth year and to celebrate we’re (and we need your help for this!) going to be creating the biggest, best and most colourful one yet! ✂️👨🎨👩🎨🎨🖍🖌🏆 “I have been moved many times by the creativity, humour and skill of the thousands of participants who have blobbed paint and scribbled messages on the Cardboard Castle over the years.
Camp Bestival news: Cardboard Castle is back at Camp Bestival for it's tenth year and to celebrate w…
Latest update from Camp Bestival Cardboard Castle is back at Camp Bestival for it’s tenth year and to celebrate we’re (and we need your help for this!) going to be creating the biggest, best and most colourful one yet! ✂️👨🎨👩🎨🎨🖍🖌🏆 “I have been moved many times by the creativity, humour and skill of the thousands of participants who have blobbed paint and scribbled messages on the Cardboard Castle over the years.
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Crippled Austerity and the Demonization of Disabled People -1 0 1 Paperback Paperback with free ebook $24.95$14.9740% off 240 pages / June 2019 / 9781786637888 Paperback Paperback with free ebook $19.95$11.9740% off September 1, 2020 / 9781788739566 Available for pre-order. This item will be available on September 1, 2020. The austerity crisis and threat to disability rights In austerity Britain, disabled people have been recast as worthless scroungers.
The Conservatives’ big problem today? They’re not conservatives
A focus on local institutions such as small businesses, markets and food co-ops would renew conservatism. Photo: Wikimedia commons The Conservative party has, over recent decades, fed the general public with ersatz principles.For most of us, politics has become recognisable as a matter of daily improvisation. Political principles have become secondary to individual opportunism and political flexibility. However, the current public mood demands something different.
The new working class-and why the Labour party still has a chance
The gentrification of the Labour Party—both its membership and, more significantly, its core voter—has been a matter of debate since before the Corbyn phenomenon. It’s been brought to the forefront, however, by the 2017 election, and by new voting patterns showing what many have heralded as the end of class politics. For the first time in British electoral history, the two main parties’ vote share of C2DE voters—skilled, semi-skilled and unskilled manual workers—was level.
The coalition has stigmatised welfare users - we need a return to compassion and solidarity
George Osborne has said a further £25bn spending cut will be coming after the next election, much of which will hit disabled people Over the past five years, we have been forced to watch the systematic slashing of our welfare state. The coalition says ‘we are all in this together.’ The reality has been an austerity agenda where the disabled, the lowest-wage earners, and the chronically ill have taken the biggest hits. Policy after policy has put the burden on the people who can least afford it.
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