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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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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Jul 26, 2024 |
ca.style.yahoo.com | Lucy Webster
Do I look like I care? … Kyla Harris and Elena Saurel star in We Might Regret This.Photograph: Linda Nylind/The GuardianThere is a scene in We Might Regret This that made me truly laugh, but not because it was funny. The BBC comedy follows Freya, a young woman who uses a wheelchair, played by Kyla Harris, who also co-created the series.
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Jun 3, 2024 |
theguardian.com | Lucy Webster
If disabled people were represented in politics according to their proportion of the UK population, there would be about 136 disabled MPs. There were, in fact, just five in 2021. Or, at least, only five who publicly identified as disabled. Even assuming there were a few more disabled MPs who hadn’t declared themselves as such, it is an extremely poor showing. The disproportionately low figures (disabled people make up about 21% of the population) are hardly a surprise.
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