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Five years after BSL is acknowledged: was it worth it?
Posted: March 18th, 2008, 2:08pm GMT by TigerDeafie
Today is five years to the day that BSL was finally acknowledged (although it’s down as being ‘recognised’ in the official statement I don’t buy it) by the UK governement. Let me be clear. Deaf people should celebrate because it wouldn’t have happened without the action of people up and down the country: the marches, the [...]... -
The wise young guy and the zombies
Posted: March 14th, 2008, 2:49pm GMT by TigerDeafie
Its been one crazy week, with the media having gone barmy for the Deaf genetics story; it has probably been covered by nearly all newspapers, and loads more radio stations. Give it a few more days and the entire UK radio network will be complete! Oh, the irony, radio, the most inaccessible media of the [...]... -
Eugenics in UK: the debate suddenly takes off and hots up!
Posted: March 10th, 2008, 6:34pm GMT by TigerDeafie
Suddenly there’s a lot of news coverage over here in UK on issues relating to Deaf issues. It began with this report in the Sunday’s (9/3/0 Observer, which had a general news focus on the HFE Bill. The article was centred on Tomato Lichy and Paula Garfield; in the printed version it shows a [...]...