The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: another fantastic seven days for the human wet wipe Mel Stride
As expected after an embarrassing time at the polls, the Tories were back to take it out on disabled people ...
Tag: chronic illness
A groundbreaking community-led conference is set to shake up the scene for people with long Covid and ME/CFS
A groundbreaking international and community-driven long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) conference - 'Unite To Fight' - is about to ...
Australia’s state and services are trapping a woman living with severe ME/CFS in domestic abuse
A woman living with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Australia is desperately appealing for help to leave an ...
Private health spending shot up by nearly 9% last year as NHS services continue to collapse
People in the UK spent a record £32bn on mostly private health care last year – up from £29.8bn in ...
Vouchers for disabled people? All aboard the ‘hating us’ bus for our next batshit destination!
All aboard the hating disabled people bus for our next batshit destination! Having just left ‘doctors can’t be trusted to ...
Long Covid rates hit TWO MILLION as Tories ramp up the war on disabled and chronically ill people
New government statistics have confirmed what millions of people already knew. Specifically, this was that cases of long Covid across ...
The DWP is being dragged to COURT over its latest attack on benefits claimants
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is being taken to court over its latest attacks on benefits claimants. These ...
BREAKING: UN announces UK government has FAILED disabled people
In a report published on Wednesday 24 April, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) called ...
The two leading UK ME/CFS charities are linked to an organisation fomenting the psychologisation of the illness
Two of the biggest myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) charities in the UK may be a little too cosy with a controversial ...
Rishi Sunak has just declared unemployed sick and disabled people the enemy
It’s been coming for a while, as the amount of news stories about how many disabled and chronically ill people ...
The family of ANOTHER young woman with very severe ME are scared their daughter is going to DIE in an NHS hospital
After public outcry and media coverage around a campaign called #BringMillieHome, it has come to light another young woman - ...
DWP AI is its latest “back to work” bullsh*t to screw over chronically ill and disabled people
Another day, another disturbing Tory scheme to fuck over chronically ill and disabled people. In the UK government’s latest state-of-the-art ...
An ME inquiry? Not likely when a pillar of the psychologising establishment has access to the halls of power
Guardian journalist George Monbiot has been calling out the continued appalling abuse of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also ...
Introducing: The Week In Ableist Bullsh*t
I’m often asked what needs to change to make the world a better place for disabled people. It used to ...
I fought the law… and the law lost: disabled man arrested for blocking parliament WINS case
Last week the Canary ran my story A disabled man is being PROSECUTED for blocking parliament with his MOBILITY SCOOTER ...
New report finds toxic ‘forever chemicals’ found in UK food
New research reveals that a significant number of commonly consumed food items in the UK contain persistent PFAS pesticides ('forever ...
NHS ramps up medical abuse of two people with ME/CFS – as new Europe-wide survey shows it’s systemic
The NHS is continuing to unconscionably abuse two women living with severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) - and putting their lives ...
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