Lucy Webster
Journalist and Writer at Freelance
Journalist | Disability advocate | @guardian @thetimes etc | @cbgbooks @JLASpeakers | THE VIEW FROM DOWN HERE, memoir of ableism and sexism, out now 👩🦼🏳️🌈
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Webster
For the makers of Ellie Simmonds’ new documentary, Should I Have Children?, the most powerful moment of the show is clearly supposed to be when she finds out why she was given up for adoption. It is emotional viewing: her birth mother speaks of her difficult circumstances (she had kept her pregnancy secret), the purely negative information she had been given about Ellie’s dwarfism, and, most poignantly, how she thought of Ellie every day in the decades before they met again.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Lucy Webster
You’ve been deceived by the campaign for assisted dying. It has told you who the proposed law is for: people on their metaphorical deathbeds, no hope in sight, desperate to spare themselves and their loved ones the experience of an agonising death. And no wonder – these cases obviously merit sympathy and concern. These are the people campaigners want to talk about; this is the narrative that pushes people into unquestioning support for their cause.
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Jan 22, 2025 |
theguardian.com | Lucy Webster
It’s a go-to shop for cheap knickers and designer dupes, but now Primark hopes to become the top destination for clothing designed for those with a range of disabilities. In a first for the budget high street shop, it is releasing a 49-piece line of womenswear and menswear, adapted from its bestselling items to suit a range of needs.
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Oct 16, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Rachel Clarke |Lucy Webster |Maureen Anderson |Gaby Hinsliff |Charlie Corke |Nims Obunge
Rachel Clarke: If we truly cared about those dying, palliative care would be properly fundedChristiaan Barnard, the surgeon who performed the world’s first heart transplant, vividly skewered the notion of patients “freely” choosing to have such dangerous, experimental surgery.
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Oct 11, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Lucy Webster
“What do you do when you have a terminal illness? When you only have a certain amount of time left to you?” These are the questions that animate a new adaptation of Shakespeare’s Richard III, in which the title character, like the actor who plays him, has motor neurone disease (MND) and uses a wheelchair. I am speaking to that actor, Michael Patrick, and the play’s director, Oisín Kearney, during a break in rehearsals at Belfast’s Lyric theatre, ahead of opening night.
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