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Being Special
What makes the Disability Resilience Network advocacy model special?

Philip J Connolly
Jul 3, 20232 min read
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The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it! Looking back from 2025.
The beautiful game just got more beautiful - here's how the DRN did it!

Philip J Connolly
Jan 17, 20231 min read
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Disability, Self-Sufficiency and Mutualism
Ok, so you've signed a petition, been on a march, added your details to the sum of evidence and yet still been ignored. What’s left?...

Philip J Connolly
Aug 18, 20223 min read
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Air Pollution is Making More of us Disabled
Dr Dean Schraufnagel of Illinois University has led a review of 70,000 scientific studies and concluded that every organ of the body is...

Philip J Connolly
Jul 14, 20223 min read
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New Energy for the Unity Plan
If the disability sector is to advance then it will need to find new energy but where is this energy going to come from?

Philip J Connolly
Jun 20, 20223 min read
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The Unity Plan: how the DRN builds an inclusive economy with you
2000 people have connected with the Disability Resilience Network - the DRN. It is our hope that you can be connected too!

Philip J Connolly
May 5, 20223 min read
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"To the metaverse and back to the universe"
Your invitation to join the DRN purple trade mission and secure your place at our exhibition

Philip J Connolly
Apr 25, 20224 min read
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Rethink on Barriers
Of course there are barriers and they are in the main real and even hazardous. But! But have barriers been overthought? For decades the word

Philip J Connolly
Apr 10, 20223 min read
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"Touchyfeely": enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them
Enabling disabled people to create markets that in turn employ them.

Philip J Connolly
Mar 31, 20223 min read
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Preparing for Our Demise
It is a bit strange that on the eve of building something new and important, that we should even be thinking of “demise”.

Nigel Niles
Feb 28, 20223 min read
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Mass Membership: feedback on our scenario planning
We will become the biggest network for disabled people and those with a long-term health condition because you decided to join us.

Philip J Connolly
Feb 21, 20223 min read
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"Creating our Own Weather" DRN's theory of change
Rainforests occupy only 6% of the earth's surface but 50% of the world's animals live there. Why? Its because rainforests create their...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 7, 20223 min read
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Cut through thinking on disability policy
Do you know the game called rock, paper, scissors? If you do you will recognise that a surprise is always possible.

Philip J Connolly
May 24, 20215 min read
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The Book of Exhumations; spilling the beans so we can all smell the coffee
I have been involved in disability politics long enough to have a nuisance value, you see I know where the bodies are buried. I want to move

Philip J Connolly
May 10, 20216 min read
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The Dust Jacket: A two part fantasy blog
Human beings are a mix of dust and water.
We are two thirds dust and one third water.

Philip J Connolly
Apr 15, 20214 min read
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Catalysing Reactions for Seismic Change
Covid-19: Were the consequences avoidable and will the aftermath benefit from what you the readers know and do? “A stitch in time saves...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 24, 20215 min read
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Thoughts from a Creative Disruptor
I was recently asked by one disability activist what do you do once you have told your story. Perhaps your own successful story of...

Philip J Connolly
Feb 15, 20214 min read
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