Crippled. Austerity and the demonization of disabled people by Frances Ryan (Verso June 2019). Review article by Dick Barbor-Might, for Berwick-upon-Tweed CLP, 17th September 2019
Jumbob is the name Frances Ryan gives to a 68-year old Ayrshire man with chronic lung disease, bone disease and fibromyalgia. She interviewed him in the winter of 2017. He sat wrapped up in a quilt in his freezing cold flat. He could only afford to put the heating on…
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