Katharine Quarmby
Award-winning writer, editor and journalist.
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Lord Justice Leveson took evidence from 184 oral witnesses on just one module alone – the relationship between the press and the public. He took further oral evidence from many more people and organisations for three separate modules – the press and the police, the press and politicians and the future of the press. But…
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I was contacted by Occupied Times (the newspaper of the Occupy Movement) for a piece about my book, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people, and the campaigning I have done with disability organisations to raise our concerns about the way in which both the Government and the media discuss disability benefit cuts. All well…
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I was at the Home Office yesterday, attending a meeting to look at the implementation of the Equality Commission’s report on disability targeted harassment in the police service, in my role as one of the advisors to the Association of Chief Police Officers and the National Policing Improvement Agency on this subject. I was really…
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I’m hard at work, finishing off my second non-fiction book, for adults, provisionally entitled Gypsies and Gorgias: The Road beyond Dale Farm, for Oneworld Publications, due out next year. I’ve travelled through much of England and further afield this year and last, visiting Gypsies, Travellers and New Travellers, in a quest to discover what the…
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This is my first blog here and, given the time of year, I wanted to use it to reflect on a very full year – and to anticipate a little of what 2012 is likely to bring. In June 2011 my first book for adults, Scapegoat: why we are failing disabled people, was published (Portobello Press, 2011)…
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