All articles by "Tanni Grey-Thompson"

There are a total of 12 articles by Tanni Grey-Thompson.

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• London: not so inaccessible after all

  Tanni Grey-Thompson always thought London was a hassle to get around. But on a recent sightseeing weekend she found it to be more accessible than she'd thought. More

• Our absence from the adverts

  Tanni Grey-Thompson wonders why, although disabled people have a spending power of 80 billion pounds, but advertisers neither feature nor target us in their campaigns. More

• Hold the back page!

  Tanni Grey-Thompson asks whether, despite the success of many UK disabled athletes, and the Paralympics coming in 2012, disability sport is getting the attention it deserves. More

• To queue or not to queue?

  Running late for an appointment, Tanni Grey-Thompson recently faced a classic disability dilemma: is it acceptable to use the disability card. More

• London 2012 Paralympics: we won and we will win!

  Tanni Grey-Thompson reveals why she supported the 2012 Paralympics bid, but warns that disability sport in the UK will have to move higher up the political agenda. More

• Tactile paving (and other bad inventions)

  Tanni Grey-Thompson on how she hates many of the inventions intended to assist disabled people, beginning with tactile paving. More

• Bedside manners

  Ouch columnist and athlete Tanni Grey-Thompson describes how she explained to medical students how they should talk to people with disabilities. More

• Disability is the reason

  Ouch columnist Tanni Grey-Thompson wonders when people started using disability as an excuse not to do things, rather than the reason why they can't do something. More

• An innocent underground

  Because public transport is mostly very inaccessible, Tanni Grey-Thompson uses it very rarely, if at all. Here she takes a journey on the London Underground ... More

• The joy of the wheel-clamp

  Tanni Grey-Thompson hates the abuse of disabled parking bays by able-bodied drivers, so she was overjoyed when she saw a car actually being clamped for such a crime. More

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