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Encounters with remarkable people - who is in?
The last week has been rich in encounters. I spoke to three people with the compassion to renew my faith in a community's capacity for self healing.
Philip J Connolly
Jun 22 min read
On Becoming an Influencer
As you know we don't charge fees, nor run services nor sell anything other than our ideas.
Philip J Connolly
Feb 5, 20242 min read
When did the Government leave?
Conservative MP and ex-climate adviser Chris Skidmore has warned of a "vacuum and silence" in government on climate change. BBC 5/7/2023
Philip J Connolly
Nov 6, 20232 min read
UKIM to VIM
On the 17th of August 2023 the UK Independent Mechanism (UKIM) reported on the progress in implementing the United Nations Convention on...
Philip J Connolly
Aug 23, 20232 min read
You Heard it Here First - the DRN Team Effort and Also General Election Dates Inside
Operation Purple Vote (OPV) is looking to set up an Artificial Intelligence (AI) facility to support the Disability Resilience Network (DRN)
Philip J Connolly
Aug 7, 20232 min read
Being Special
What makes the Disability Resilience Network advocacy model special?
Philip J Connolly
Jul 3, 20232 min read
So we asked artificial intelligence what the advantage of having a disability might be.
DRN asked artificial intelligence what the advantages might be in our experience of disability. Here below is the response.
Philip J Connolly
Jun 19, 20232 min read
Looking For a Black Swan
There are many legitimate influences on good policy making but one essential element is the asking of questions. If we ask better...
Philip J Connolly
Feb 28, 20233 min read
The Social Value Act, the Disability Employment Gap and the Need for Action on the Ground.
An Open Letter to the UK’s Disability Charities In recent years, I have been researching the use of the Social Value Act in the UK. This...
Chris Lonsdale
Feb 7, 20235 min read
The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it! Looking back from 2025.
The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it!
Philip J Connolly
Jan 17, 20231 min read
We have a new anthem
This year we reveal an anthem for the resilient, a song to unite us all.
Martine Waltier
Jan 4, 20232 min read
The Bluffers Guide to Obtaining Old and New Resources
Most NGOs have two arms to them. The first is the one that established them as providers of information, advice and guidance, possibly...
Philip J Connolly
Sep 26, 20223 min read
Disability, Self-Sufficiency and Mutualism
Ok, so you've signed a petition, been on a march, added your details to the sum of evidence and yet still been ignored. What’s left?...
Philip J Connolly
Aug 18, 20223 min read
Air Pollution is Making More of us Disabled
Dr Dean Schraufnagel of Illinois University has led a review of 70,000 scientific studies and concluded that every organ of the body is...
Philip J Connolly
Jul 14, 20223 min read
The Unity Plan: how the DRN builds an inclusive economy with you
2000 people have connected with the Disability Resilience Network - the DRN. It is our hope that you can be connected too!
Philip J Connolly
May 5, 20223 min read
"To the metaverse and back to the universe"
Your invitation to join the DRN purple trade mission and secure your place at our exhibition
Philip J Connolly
Apr 25, 20224 min read
Rethink on Barriers
Of course there are barriers and they are in the main real and even hazardous. But! But have barriers been overthought? For decades the word
Philip J Connolly
Apr 10, 20223 min read
"Touchyfeely": enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them
Enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them.
Philip J Connolly
Mar 31, 20223 min read
Semiotics of Disability
Semiotics is the study of anything that communicates something. The anything is regarded as a sign and the something is its meaning....
Philip J Connolly
Mar 21, 20224 min read
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”.
Nigel Niles
Feb 28, 20223 min read
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