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Ranting Round-Up No.1

September 23, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

Now where to start? As I’ve been crazy busy recently the list of things “Grinding My Gears” is quite long. The first was C4’s Sainsbury’s Super Saturday. This music and sports show was to celebrate the launch of ticket sales for the Paralympics and was aired over a whole weekend

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, disabled, enhance the uk, equality, feminism, media, models, page 3, paralympics, Sainsbury's Super Saturday, Television, The Wright Stuff

Proud to be a Freak!

September 10, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

One of my favourite shows on TV at the minute is C4’s Seven Dwarves. When I saw it advertised I thought I was going to hate it, but it is probably the best example of this kind of TV I have ever seen. Normally “Freak” TV focuses on what is

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Channel 4, Disability, discrimination, Freak, illness, pride, Scars, Seven Dwarves

Bladerunner Blues

August 29, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

Today I did something that I almost never do. So rare an event that it dragged my wife away from her Physics studies to find out what was going on, and as she has a paper due in three days she hasn’t got time to waste. You see today I

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, equality, IAAF, olympics, Oscar Pistorius, paralympics, sport

Thoughts on a birthday 2

August 27, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

Three days before my 46th birthday I found myself over come with a strange sensation. A kind of down feeling, combined with a yearning to know where I was going with my life. As the big day approached, the feeling got stronger and as I awoke on August 18th I

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: career change, Disability, future, health, mid-life crisis, work

Thoughts on a birthday 1

August 23, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

I intended to continue my thoughts on the recent riots by examining the claims that they were due to a moral decline among some areas of society. I wanted to ask why it is that only the people from the poorer segments of the public were being targeted as being

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Riots, unemployment, wheelchair

Riots – Can Anyone Claim That They Are The Answer?

August 9, 2011 by Mik Scarlet

Today I wheeled into Camden Town Centre and witnessed the aftermath of the thankfully minor troubles that took place last night. While some shops had been looted and many windows smashed, I know that the place I call home got off lightly. The footage on TV and photos and videos

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Filed Under: Uncategorized Tagged With: Disability, discrimination, madness, police, Riots

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