BY DOMINIC WIGHTMAN My great-grandfather was completely deaf (or pretended to be so), yet he managed to help keep the Conservatives in power for many years, despite a brief interlude under Ramsay MacDonald. His daughter, my grandmother, was also profoundly deaf. In her later years, she walked around with a portable microphone linked to her hearing aids, which she innocently placed in the middle of … Continue reading Embracing Deafness