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This vegan restaurant offers workers with learning disabilities a pathway to independence
Learning disability week 2024

This vegan restaurant offers workers with learning disabilities a pathway to independence

‘Music is an important creative outlet’: IDLES answer questions from superfan with Angelman syndrome
Music

‘Music is an important creative outlet’: IDLES answer questions from superfan with Angelman syndrome

Even though I have Down’s syndrome, I know how to party. I’m the first and last on the dance floor
Learning Disability Week 2024

Even though I have Down’s syndrome, I know how to party. I’m the first and last on the dance floor

People with learning disabilities need to make their voices heard on election day
Learning Disability Week 2024

People with learning disabilities need to make their voices heard on election day

I have terminal cancer and a learning disability. Life would be miserable without my social care worker
Learning Disability Week 2024

I have terminal cancer and a learning disability. Life would be miserable without my social care worker

‘I want to get out’: The fight for people with learning disabilities to live at home – not hospitals
Learning Disability Week 2024

‘I want to get out’: The fight for people with learning disabilities to live at home – not hospitals

‘No song written about football is actually any good’: The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked
Euro 2024

‘No song written about football is actually any good’: The best and worst Euro 2024 songs, ranked

Special Olympian and COALPIT Welsh Cake founder Michael Benyon shares his favourite recipes
Food

Special Olympian and COALPIT Welsh Cake founder Michael Benyon shares his favourite recipes

Line of Duty’s Martin Compston: ‘I’ve been dreaming of going to the Euros since I was 14’
Euro 2024

Line of Duty’s Martin Compston: ‘I’ve been dreaming of going to the Euros since I was 14’

Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?
Theatre

Can the story of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol show us a way through the climate crisis?

Going through cancer treatment with a learning disability is tough. Here’s how doctors can help
Learning Disability Week 2024

Going through cancer treatment with a learning disability is tough. Here’s how doctors can help

Letters: The UK does not care for anyone unless you are rich
Letters

Letters: The UK does not care for anyone unless you are rich

Paralympian Jessica-Jane Applegate on winning gold and being told she doesn’t look disabled enough
Learning Disability Week 2024

Paralympian Jessica-Jane Applegate on winning gold and being told she doesn’t look disabled enough

How outdated misconceptions about people with learning disabilities are holding society back
Ben Tinkler

How outdated misconceptions about people with learning disabilities are holding society back

Big Issue and Mencap break new ground with magazine compiled entirely by people with a learning disability
Press Release

Big Issue and Mencap break new ground with magazine compiled entirely by people with a learning disability

Inside the Big Issue: Learning Disability Week special edition
Inside the Big Issue

Inside the Big Issue: Learning Disability Week special edition

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John Cale on The Velvet Underground, teaching Bowie the viola and why drugs aren’t the creative stimulant
Letter to my younger self

John Cale on The Velvet Underground, teaching Bowie the viola and why drugs aren’t the creative stimulant

‘The threat to our rights’: Women share what keeps them awake at night in honour of Ulysses’ Molly Bloom
Books

‘The threat to our rights’: Women share what keeps them awake at night in honour of Ulysses’ Molly Bloom

‘People in prison need art, music and reading’: Inside the prison libraries that break down walls
Prisons

‘People in prison need art, music and reading’: Inside the prison libraries that break down walls

Why I’m silenced by the fear of being called a bigot
Robin Ince

Why I’m silenced by the fear of being called a bigot