Disabled people earn £4,300 less a year – but Labour STILL want to force us into work
How much will you earn between now and the rest of the year? Well if you’re disabled it’s effectively nothing....
Rachel Charlton-Dailey is an award-winning disabled editor, journalist, and activist. She is the author of Ruby Hastings Writes Her On Story. She was a disability rights columnist for the Daily Mirror where she guest edited the series Disabled Britain and regularly writes for Big Issue, Metro, and the Independent, among others. When Rachel isn't writing, she can be found walking her sausage dog, Rusty.
How much will you earn between now and the rest of the year? Well if you’re disabled it’s effectively nothing....
There’s a lot of fear among disabled people on DWP benefits like PIP at the moment and much of it...
Deaf and disabled people's organisations (DDPOs) and trade unions have called on Rachel Reeves and Liz Kendall to rethink dangerous...
Today I get to write about my favourite topic - myself, Rachel Charlton-Dailey, of course. As you may have already...
There are currently two news stories doing the rounds that are concerning to disabled people. Firstly is, of course, the...
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On Monday 2 September, Kemi Badenoch officially launched her Conservative Party leadership bid. To tease that she put out a...
Disabled people staged a sit-in outside parliament on Monday 2 September. It happened after security denied them entry to the...
On Monday night Tanni Grey-Thompson had to do something she’s unfortunately accustomed to now - crawl off a train. She...
Can't work due to bad mental health? You're a selfish scrounger with no self respect according to the NHS director...
The new Labour Party government might be in summer recess, but there’s no time like the present for throwing disabled...
Whilst we’ve been attempting to fend off both a literal country on fire and a figurative one under the new...
Following the racist and Islamophobic race riots of the weekend, many middle-class politicians, columnists, and journalists on the right and...
This week disabled campaigners and allies marched on parliament to demand the new government pledge to build new accessible housing....
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