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EasyJet profits, while disabled passengers lose | Tanvi Vyas
The airline’s policies have repeatedly failed disabled people – its profit margins may come at too high a price When easyJet released its trading figures for the fourth quarter of 2011, it reported a 16.7% increase in revenue, taking pride in the fact that its confident financial performance bucked the trend of poor sales across other UK airline carriers.
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EasyJet profits, while disabled passengers lose | Tanvi Vyas
How the Spartacus welfare cuts campaign went viral
Disabled activists use #spartacusreport Twitter storm to help inflict hat-trick of welfare reform defeats on the government in the Lords Something extraordinary happened last week in the volatile micro-blogging world of Twitter: a medium normally obsessed by celebrities, football and sex turned its collective attention instead to disability. A handmade campaign against welfare
Letters: Morality and the welfare reform bill
Doubtless, the permanently disabled and those dying of cancer will be reassured to learn that “Many Liberal Democrats have been uncomfortable voting with the government, but feel forced to do so if they are to abide by their coalition commitment to bring the deficit under control” ( Coalition’s welfare reform plan hit by £1.6 bn Lords defeat , 12 January). Some of us were under the misguided impression that the “only obeying orders” defence, now being used by Liberal Democrat MPs and most Liberal Democrat peers, was ruled out at the Nuremberg trials.
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Letters: Morality and the welfare reform bill
Live discussion of Welfare reform bill
A hatrick of defeats on welfare benefits for the government in the Lords – so what happens next?
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Live discussion of Welfare reform bill
NHS accused over deaths of disabled patients
Mencap inquiry finds institutional discrimination against people with learning disabilities led to at least 74 deaths The NHS is accused of causing or contributing to the deaths of at least 74 patients with a learning disability because of poor care that reveals enduring “institutional discrimination” among doctors and nurses. The 74 vulnerable patients’ deaths over the past decade were either caused or complicated by mistakes in hospitals and decisions by staff who failed to treat them properly and displayed ignorance or indifference to their plight, according to the charity Mencap and families of some of those who died.
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NHS accused over deaths of disabled patients
‘Appalling neglect’: how NHS let down the most vulnerable
Mencap says deaths of at least 74 patients with learning disabilities were linked to institutional discrimination Lisa Sharpe was healthy at birth but at four and a half months old she became floppy and went into a coma. It left her severely brain damaged as a result of Reye’s syndrome, which damaged 90% of her brain, with cerebral palsy and epilepsy
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‘Appalling neglect’: how NHS let down the most vulnerable
