Max Burt – Disability Champion Max Burt's personal website.

A couple of years ago, I went to Barcelona.  As a wheelchair user who travels a lot, I am depressingly used to things being pretty hard work.  In many countries access is patchy at best (most wheelchair users therefore end up going back to the same places...

Back in the early 90s, my advertising agency made a film for a disability charity (that sadly never saw the light of day).
I just unearthed it.
It demonstrates wonderfully the creativity that so many disabled people are capable of, because their situations force them to look at the activities of daily living in different ways....

At a medal ceremony at the main Olympic stadium in London during the Paralympics, the British Chancellor of the Exchequer, George Osborne, was roundly booed by many of the 80,000 crowd.
A British social commentator later said that maybe this was a “black power” moment for disability?...

Two years ago I went to a wedding party in the UK, held at a friend’s bar in a basement.  As I went down in the lift to join the crowd below, he moaned “I spent £25,000 putting this lift in 12 months back and you’re the first person to use it.”
Under-use of dedicated & expensive facilities for the disabled is probably quite common – as is his view. Both need some context to understand:...