Mark Cooper Articles

Providing equal access to Britain's rail network is about more than just toilet facilities, argues Mark Cooper The widely reported experience of Paralympian Anne Wafula Strike, who had to urinate herself after not having an accessible toilet on a train, is for me as a...

There has been a lot of recent discussion about affordable housing, including proposals to extend the right to buy scheme. As a council tenant who lives in an adapted flat, I cannot buy it because there are so few adapted flats that disabled people are often exempt...

People from all over the world have an American president they identify with, whether that be John F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, Barack Obama or another. For me, it is Bill Clinton. Why? Well, his 1996 re-election campaign was the first political campaign I was aware of....

Today Ed Miliband has announced that he will look to tackle excessive rent rises in the private sector housing market. This is a welcome step to help people, but in my view he should go further when looking at the rental market and look into ways he can help disabled...