Insider • 22nd May 2023

I use a wheelchair and I'm tired of nondisabled partners telling me how I should handle my health

• I've dated more than one nondisabled person who seemed to assume they knew what was best for me.
• They offered unsolicited advice about how to deal with my health.
• Here's what I want in a partner and what would make me feel loved and listened to.

"Go to church, and you will be healed as God will forgive your sins — God wants to forgive you."

These words appeared on my cracked phone screen, the reply of a dating-app match after I disclosed my disability and that I was a wheelchair user.

Metro • 19th May 2023

Accessible tech is growing - and Samsung is helping break more barriers

To mark Global Accessibility Awareness Day (GAAD), Samsung invited a group to try its latest assistive technology features.

The day itself aims to get more people to engage with digital access and inclusion, and to show that beyond the gloss of futuristic, sleek tech branding, these products and services can help ordinary people with disabilities and impairments live their everyday lives.

It’s good to see this true-to-life approach, rather than brands relying heavily on the superpower or super

Metro • 5th March 2023

Emmerdale risks isolating fans with Chas and Samson becoming so unlikeable

Few characters in soap can claim to be out-and-out good people. But as the Dingle dynasty is torn apart, it’s clear Emmerdale has a clear problem with redemption.

Digital Spy • 27th February 2023

How Emmerdale has broken new ground with Marlon's storyline

When Marlon Dingle looked in the mirror and saw the signs of a stroke, Emmerdale embraced knotty, thoughtful, relatable disability representation.

10th February 2023

Why Strictly's 'plan' to cast a wheelchair user is so important | Radio Times

The backlash was inevitable, but future generations need to see such representation on big shows like Strictly, writes Melissa Parker.

Digital Spy • 3rd February 2023

Coronation Street can learn a lesson from Summer Spellman's storylines

It has been a busy few months for Summer Spellman in Coronation Street, but her many storylines are a lesson in what happens when you heap misery on characters in place of depth – when you don't try to get under their skin.

27th January 2023

Coronation Street's Stephen Reid is the Mr Bean of soap killers | Radio Times

Stephen Reid (Todd Boyce) has stumbled accidentally into murder on Coronation Street and slightly strained villainy — the Mr. Bean of soap killers.

Metro • 20th January 2023

Corrie's slow re-introduction of Izzy gives disabled shielders a voice

In a simple fleeting scene set in one of the most common places on the cobbles Izzy Armstrong (Cherylee Houston) was seen in the café talking to Gary Windass (Mikey North) about their son, Jake Windass (Bobby Bradshaw).

Metro • 15th January 2023

I struggle to write - speech-to-text software is why I can do my dream job

I struggle to write – speech-to-text software is the reason I can do my dream job

I struggle to write – speech-to-text software is the reason I can do my dream job

It might sound dramatic but it’s true.

Without speech-to-text software, I wouldn’t have the career I do. Decades ago, it simply wouldn’t have been possible for me to have a job in journalism.

When I use the programme, I speak the words I want to write into my headset, and the computer transforms that information into written words

6th January 2023

Doctor Who casting Ruth Madeley is game-changing for disabled fans | Radio Times

We don’t know anything about Ruth Madeley's character – but a generation of disabled viewers know how she should be handled.