Nigel Niles
Preparing for Our Demise
It is a bit strange that on the eve of building something new and important, that we should even be thinking of “demise”.
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 21, 2022
- 3 min
Mass Membership: feedback on our scenario planning
We will become the biggest network for disabled people and those with a long-term health condition because you decided to join us.
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 7, 2022
- 3 min
"Creating our Own Weather" DRN's theory of change
Rainforests occupy only 6% of the earth's surface but 50% of the world's animals live there. Why? Its because rainforests create their...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 31, 2022
- 4 min
The Purple (Disability) Planet: The DRN Invitation and Challenge to the BBC
David Attenborough was once asked, what gave him hope. He replied "the indomitable spirit of humans and the resilience of nature."
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 10, 2022
- 3 min
The Inclusive Economy - The Disability Resilience Network (DRN) Goal
The DRN is a network and we are already welding national representation to local activism. Our evolving structure will allow us to conduct c
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 2, 2022
- 4 min
Tipping points for a mass movement
Tipping point theory tells us how small differences can make a new reality or break an old one.
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Philip J Connolly
- Jun 7, 2021
- 4 min
Disability Unleashed
The starting point of being counter-cultural is your determination not to have your life mapped out in the statistics that describe the norm
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Philip J Connolly
- May 24, 2021
- 5 min
Cut through thinking on disability policy
Do you know the game called rock, paper, scissors? If you do you will recognise that a surprise is always possible.
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Philip J Connolly
- May 10, 2021
- 6 min
The Book of Exhumations; spilling the beans so we can all smell the coffee
I have been involved in disability politics long enough to have a nuisance value, you see I know where the bodies are buried. I want to move
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Philip J Connolly
- Apr 28, 2021
- 5 min
Hire Vision: changing the narrative
As a disability movement we need the energy that flows from a renewal of our vision.
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Philip J Connolly
- Apr 6, 2021
- 4 min
Liberation Technology
Technology gives disabled people the ability to disrupt their assigned traditional role: to be disseminators of information and not simply r
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 19, 2021
- 4 min
Disability for physicists, astrophysicists and the simply curious
The universe is not based upon binary choices, light itself is a spectrum so could disability policy itself be more of a spectrum condition.
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 11, 2021
- 5 min
Releasing the Spellbound
Mythology is near impossible to shift. The secret to defeating mythology is to have a more potent story from which to construct a new mythol
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Philip J Connolly
- Mar 3, 2021
- 4 min
Generation Z is Already Making its Mark
Well just imagine I am 15. I am the archetypal young disabled person wanting to work. I am not asking you the reader to be the First monkey
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 24, 2021
- 5 min
Catalysing Reactions for Seismic Change
Covid-19: Were the consequences avoidable and will the aftermath benefit from what you the readers know and do? “A stitch in time saves...
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 15, 2021
- 4 min
Thoughts from a Creative Disruptor
I was recently asked by one disability activist what do you do once you have told your story. Perhaps your own successful story of...
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 10, 2021
- 4 min
Disability Industrial Revolution
The Industrial Revolution began here in the UK; ahead of the budget the Disability Resilience Network offers the Chancellor a plan to...
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Philip J Connolly
- Feb 2, 2021
- 4 min
An Algorithm for Happiness
An algorithm for happiness – what would you add or what would you take away? Supporting self-help resilient groups and individuals –...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 18, 2021
- 3 min
The Rock and Roll Years
Last year I was asked by Sky news if they could interview me as a person with Parkinsons disease on what I thought the challenges would...
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Philip J Connolly
- Jan 8, 2021
- 4 min
New Year Love Letter
A love letter to disabled people There’s nothing you can know that isn’t known Nothing you can see that isn’t shown There’s nowhere you...
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