Gordon Aikman is an MND patient and political campaigner. “When your legs don’t work like they used to before. And I can’t sweep you off of your feet.” Ed Sheeran’s Thinking Out Loud must be a rare choice for the first dance at a wedding. Yet for my partner and I, it struck a chord….

By Gordon Aikman   Bang! Two players collide, head-on, at speed. Wheelchair basketball is fast and ferocious. The players tear around the court, crash and are regularly thrown to the floor. I feel myself nudging my wheelchair closer and closer to the TV screen. Adrenaline coursing through my body, I am taken back to my…

by Lesley Maxwell I often read about carers and feel humbled by the job that they do, the challenges the face and compassion they show. Then it hits me! I am a carer too! Yet I don’t necessarily fit the mould. You see I am one of those carers that some other carers look down…

NUS Scotland, who represents around 500,000 students from Scotland’s colleges and universities, is making politics more accessible to disabled students today as they sign up to the One in Five campaign. One In Five, the cross party campaign working to get better representation of disabled people in Politics and make our Politics and it’s institutions…