Disability talk and debate: what might be the consequences of how we talked about being disabled, reducing benefit fraud, the impact of the digital divide and street harassment, all discussed by Phil and Simon? 

What are your thoughts on benefit fraud? How should it be tackled? Are the Tories being absurd or frightening? 

Simon recently saw a play, ‘It’s a Mother f**king Pleasure’ at the Soho Theatre by FlawBored Theatre. The main thrust was irreverent fun ridiculing short-term ‘ableist’ attitudes and disability in society, including introducing ‘able anxiety’ as a term, But it went deeper: If some disabled people say how great life is, does that potentially encourage people to become disabled? 

How would you get on if you didn’t have a smartphone, email, or Google? Many worry about wifi dropping or the impact of social media, and we talk about those who don’t even go online.

We explore the digital divide, explaining how some people are left behind as the world moves online. This can impact your wealth, health and mental well-being.

Most people would agree that harassment of anyone on the street is a bad thing and should be stopped such harassment, particularly experienced by women, also impacts disabled people too. We might agree it should be against the law, but how do you police someone ‘staring intently’? 

Listeners Corner returns about jogging pants and your ‘favourite’ grandchildren. 

LINKS

Minister of Disabled people swanning around in a flack jacket, helping to "hunt" down benefit cheats!

FlawBored Theatre Company

The Challenges of tech for disabled people in rural communities. digital divide

Disability street harassment a crime