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Ian Birrell Article (Audience (Readers of the I newspaper and The…
Ian Birrell Article
Audience
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Followers and fans of African music/culture and thus followers of Birrell's work a a journalist and campaigner
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Those with an interest in identity, sexuality and/or disability issues
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Context
Ian Birrell
Former deputy editor of the Independent Newspaper (politically independent national morning newspaper)
Columnist, foreign corespondent, campaigner
Co-founder of Africa Express (UK based non-profit organisation which facilitates cross-cultural collaborations between musicians in African, Middle Eastern, and Western countries-help African musicians break beyond stigmas and prejudices)
Daughter suffers from a rare life-threatening condition that means she cannot walk or talk. She is blind, endures daily epileptic fits and needs round-the-clock care.
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Disability
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Disability is more likely to affect older adults over State Pension age. They account for 45% of the disabled in the UK compared to 16% of working age adults and 6% children.
Disabled people are now more likely to be employed than they were in 2002, but disabled people remain significantly less likely to be in employment than non-disabled people
2012, 46.3% of working-age disabled people are in employment compared to 76.4% of working-age non-disabled people- 30.1 percentage point gap between disabled and non-disabled people, representing over 2 million people