Labour says feeling like a burden is a reason for assisted suicide – while making disabled people feel like burdens
This week, a friend asked me what the first defining moment of seeing disability portrayed on TV was for me ...
Tag: chronic illness
Outrage as Labour minister makes shocking statement about DWP cuts
With the Labour Party government's Spring Statement imminent, chancellor Rachel Reeves is doubling down with a raft of spending cuts ...
Nearly HALF of all PIP claims rejected by DWP – yet disabled people are ‘scroungers’
Nearly half of all claims for Personal Independent Payments (PIP) were denied by the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ...
The secret to Birmingham Live’s constant DWP headlines will (not) shock you
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) clickbait outrage merchants at Reach PLC are at it again, using the fear ...
Wales’ hidden war: the Long Covid crisis demands a national response
It has been nearly eighty years since Wales last faced devastation on the scale of war. Yet, as the Senedd ...
A petition over changes to the DWP’s PIP system is getting thousands of signatures
A growing petition demanding the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ends repeated assessments for Personal Independence Payment (PIP) has ...
Government hit with formal complaint over discredited NHS treatments for ME/CFS
It has been more than three years since the launch of a vital campaign to get the government to set ...
A group in the US are documenting ‘The Week in Trump’s Ableist Bullsh*t’
Only five weeks into the new Donald Trump presidency, but that little over a month of the fascist felon-turned-US head ...
Being disabled under the Tories was bad. With Labour, it’s soul destroying
I’ve been struggling to write this column for a while now. Obviously there’s been the personal reasons and professional reasons ...
‘Irrelevant’: a poem about being a disabled person in the UK
In the UK, successive governments and society have marginalised and persecuted chronically ill and disabled people for decades. However, in ...
Balram Patel’s father says his son’s death was a case of “forced assisted dying” due to medical negligence
Patients Lives Matter, a patient advocacy group, has announced the dates for the coroner's inquest into the death of Balram ...
‘Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored’: a new documentary on ME/CFS
One of the “biggest medical scandals of the 21st century” is about to be blown wide open to a new ...
‘SILENCE=DEATH’: Long COVID-suffering performers protest outside BAFTAs
Long Covid-suffering performers sounded the alarm on this chronic illness emergency in the performing arts outside the BAFTAs. Members of ...
Desperate parents expose six-year failure to implement life-saving medicinal cannabis law
Joanne Griffiths, director of End Our Pain and mother of a child with severe epilepsy, is spearheading a powerful campaign ...
DWP boss Liz Kendall probably wishes she’d never opened her mouth (again)
Work and pensions secretary and arch Blairite Liz Kendall has claimed that there are substantial people on Department for Work ...
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 ...
Desperate to go: a quarter of children are scared to use school toilets
Nearly half of young people surveyed by ERIC, the Children’s Bowel and Bladder Charity, said they were not allowed to ...
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