Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey says the Tory party conference is using disabled people to distract from their own damage to taxpayers

Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey has been left unimpressed with the government’s latest disability awareness campaign

Stephanie Aston was told her painful symptoms were ‘all in her head’ before she died. This should be shocking, but as a disabled woman, it was also deeply upsetting, because for almost my whole life doctors have not believed me

The scheme will see sticks and crutches refurbished back to their top quality and redistributed around the world, and has already redistributed mobility aids to over 22 countries

The language around disability fuels the way disabled people are treated by government, society and media. This is why Rosie Jones should change the name of her documentary

‘When disabled people are physically unable to attend Pride events it gives the message that we don’t belong in the LGBTQ+ community’

The whole thing would be incredibly laughable - grown men who work for the worst government in decades running about doing terrible pastiches of crime thrillers - if it wasn’t pushing such a dangerous narrative

Often when disabled people are asked about their conditions we’re asked “what’s wrong?” This insinuates as is often the case, that being disabled is a bad thing

The Conservatives publicising their benefit fraud raids is a tactical campaign to get the public’s support in killing disabled and other at-risk people

Labour claimed billions lost to benefit error and fraud could’ve paid for another cost of living payment, but we need to stop pitting the most vulnerable against each other

I’ve written extensively on much I hate well-known actors winning awards for sitting in wheelchairs and playing roles where being disabled is the worst possible thing someone can be

Report found that 33 per cent of staff with a disability or long-term illness have experienced bullying. Disability was also the most recurring tribunal claim brought against the Met in recent years

Lockdowns are still viewed as the worst thing that happened in during the pandemic - when it should be the travesty of how many disabled people were allowed to perish

Thérèse Coffey is wrong that people simply need to ‘work more hours’ in order to boost their incomes, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, Rachel Charlton-Dailey, says

Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, says media ableism happens every single day and can be seen in the use of outdated words such as ‘wheelchair-bound’

Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, says the book-writing world is a horrendously hard space to access as a disabled woman

Rachel Charlton-Dailey, Disabled Britain guest editor and columnist for the Mirror, says she refuses to simply write whatever the government asks her to, after questioning a new ‘announcement’ from Westminster

Disabled people battle constantly to be called what they are, with AP Styleguide’s recent tweet a “vomit-inducing” example of the problem, says Mirror columnist Rachel Charlton-Dailey

South Shields lost out in its bid for the second round of the Tory government’s Levelling Up funding, but the North East was also revealed to have the highest proportion of disabled people in the country

Both Tories and Labour politicians are pledging to get disabled people back into work, but what about those of us who can’t work?