Leadbeater’s latest assisted dying U-turn could give Starmer a run for his money – and harm just as many disabled people
In a move that might even give Labour Party PM Keir Starmer a run for his money, Kim Leadbeater has...
NHS admits to Canary it doesn’t know how many disabled people it detains under Mental Health Act
The NHS is still spectacularly failing to end its shameful institutionalisation of learning disabled and autistic people via the 1983...
Psychiatrists in Denmark STILL plan to forcibly detain a severe ME/CFS patient
Psychiatrists in Denmark are still threatening to forcibly detain a severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient in a psychiatric hospital. They...
DWP spent HALF A MILLION to defend itself in just ONE court case
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) threw close to half a million pounds at defending its dangerous plans to...
The MSM is now announcing Labour’s DWP plans for it. Shameful.
It hasn’t even been a week since Rachel Reeves’ announcement on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) disability benefit cuts...
Disability Rights UK and Eat Breath Thrive give crucial evidence to Assisted Dying Committee
Disabled witnesses and people with lived experience of mental health conditions giving evidence to the Assisted Dying Bill committee have...
DWP admits cost of living payments failed to properly support disabled people
Chronically ill and disabled Universal Credit claimants saw their health deteriorate across the course of 2023 - despite receiving the...
On International Holocaust Remembrance Day disabled people are still being killed by the state
Let’s play a game of statement spot the difference. The first: £300m bill for handouts: Spending on disability benefits for...
The Assisted Dying Bill Committee just voted to EXCLUDE key people who don’t agree with it
The first committee meeting of Kim Leadbeater’s assisted dying bill confirmed what many disabled people already knew - and have...
Yet another severe ME/CFS patient is being threatened with detention in a psychiatric ward
It’s 2025, but the abuse of people living myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) continues unabated. Already, less than a month into the...
Beating benefit reforms starts with tackling the MSM’s eugenicist anti-fatness stigma
We’re now a quarter of the way through the 21st century. But from one look at the corporate media benefit...
REVEALED: MSM disproportionately targets mental health-related DWP claimants in attack articles
Disabled people living with mental health conditions came on the receiving end of an exponential surge in corporate media attacks...
Canary research shows corporate media attacks on disabled people increased by 1130% in 2024
The right-wing corporate media ramped up its attacks on chronically ill and disabled benefit claimants to a gargantuan degree in...
A woman from Canada with severe ME has been approved for MAiD – but she wants to live
After decades battling severe ME/CFS and systemic lack of support, Marcia Doherty - known online as "Madeline" - is going...
Bristol Palestine protest this Saturday will show a Christmas nativity scene under the horrors of Israel’s genocide
Palestine supporters will be marching through central Bristol this Saturday 21 December to draw attention to the links between Palestine...
The government’s response to Maeve’s inquest report is dire for severe ME patients
Health minister Andrew Gwynne has shown how little the new Labour Party government will actually do to fix the abysmal...
A bold new project is reclaiming disabled people’s history that’s previously been erased
A new disabled-led project, the Disability Action Research Kollective, is working on “reclaiming disabled history” to help centre ableism across...
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