The two leading parties’ claims about reducing the number of people receiving incapacity benefits are detrimental not only to those claiming the benefits, but also to the working population as a whole, writes Richard Seymour.

Liz Main on the often exorbitant costs faced by those with mental health difficulties on returning to work.

Reports of hate crimes against disabled people have featured heavily in the news in recent months. Tom Shakespeare believes that some disturbing social attitudes are behind the growth in such violent attacks.

Tom Shakespeare on the flagrant discrimination practised against the disabled (in particular those with restricted growth) by employers.

Over 30% of youths receiving ASBOS have a diagnosed mental health disorder or an accepted learning difficulty, say the British Institute for Brain Injured Children.

Seems you can’t turn on the TV these days without seeing a documentary about an ‘extraordinary’ disabled person, but when it comes to portraying disability issues, do they do more harm than good? Comedian Laurence Clark gives his view – and his experience of being approached to take part in one.

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An argument for progressive change within the disability rights movement.

“Care charges” for the disabled are unnecessary and unjust.

The new mental health bill contains the seeds of a mental health system that is about coercion, not about care.

The government’s battle against anti-social behaviour is inadvertently attacking innocent disabled people who need understanding and support – not asbos.

The policy of inclusive education for disabled students should not be abandoned.

When someone asks “What do you do?” bear in mind that they are just trying to engage you in small talk. It isn’t necessary to define ourselves by our paid employment or lack of it.

When one young athlete recently asked me whether doctors ever treated me like I was stupid, I found I had to say yes.

Disabled women are subject to human rights violations without regard to their age, ethnicity, sexualality, class or religious status.

People with learning difficulties have been treated unfairly for hundreds of years. The government should take responsibility for its part in this discrimination.

How much do disabled people actually share with gay people, old people, black people and the rest, and could we really work together?

Writing sex tips recently for a women’s magazine, I was forced to stop and think.

Good, honest, hardworking able-bodied people face a scourge which makes Saddam and Osama look like amateurs.