I heard today, as I’m sure we all did, that Jack Osbourne has been diagnosed with MS. Apparently, Multiple Sclerosis is more common in young people than one might think. I just thought I would flag it up here as a bit of disability-related news. After all, it isn’t often that someone with such a high profile enters into the ranks of us cripples; I’ll be interested to see how he copes with it, and how his condition is now treated in the media. I’ve already seen a segment on the bbc news channel about other people with MS. Of course, I hope Jack’s OK personally, but I also think this presents us with quite fascinating opportunity to observe and learn something about societies’ relationship with disability.