It may be a tad bleak, but I find this Disability news Service article pretty much spot on. It considers the paralympics and asks should we disabled people support it. It’s a good question: the government is depriving thousands of us of the means to live right now, but the paralympics gives them a tool to hide behind by. It will present people with disabilities as flourishing, when in fact right now many of us are finding things harder and harder. The government will say ”look at what these superhumans can do”, hoping the public forgets the fact that they are depriving many disabled sportspeople of the means by which they got where they are in the first place. Thus while the paralympics are a terrific celebration of disability sport, we cannot let them be used to obscure what the tories are doing to us at the moment.