Locked up against her will: meet Megan, forcibly detained in a learning disabled facility
Content warning: this article contains descriptions of physical and emotional abuse that some readers may find upsetting. With the police's ...
Tag: chronic illness
The DWP and NHS will be working together if Labour’s Blairites get their way
A new report has offered a revealing insight into the Labour-led Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) likely "back to ...
Disabled people took over Parliament Square to once again fight for their basic rights
Chronically ill and disabled people took over Parliament Square to demand that the new Labour Party government undo years of ...
Maeve Boothby O’Neill’s inquest has already highlighted how little doctors understand ME/CFS
Monday 22 July was the start of an inquest into the death of a young woman with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS). ...
DWP PIP consultation set to close as a long Covid group calls out Labour government
Today - Monday 22 July - is the final day to respond to the previous Tory government's controversial consultation on ...
When are we going to talk about the corporate media’s complicity in Covid deaths?
The first report from the Covid-19 inquiry came out yesterday and told us what many of us already knew - ...
Disability rights group says DWP benefits “punitive & inadequate”. That’s an understatement.
A key coalition of disability rights groups have written to the new Labour Party government. In a letter addressed to ...
The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: we got the f*ckers out, now the real fight begins
Well hello again. It’s been a while hasn’t it? When we last spoke (well I last spoke at you) we ...
For South Asian women, it’s not just medical gaslighting that pervades their ME/CFS diagnoses
Shehla Ali from About M.E. looks at the racism and discrimination that pervades healthcare for South Asian women living with ...
A decade of advocacy fighting for ME/CFS has left me angry and frustrated
As part of the Canary and the Chronic Collaboration's Amplify training programme, founder of ME Foggy Dog and Stripy Lightbulb ...
John McDonnell set to join disabled people at protest outside parliament
Labour Party MP and former shadow chancellor John McDonnell is set to join chronically ill and disabled people at a ...
Labour silent on Tories’ brutal ‘DWP vouchers for disabled people’ plan as consultation set to close
When it comes to disability benefits, Labour's Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is so far looking little changed from ...
It’s 2024, and yet there’s still no general election for ‘ME’
It doesn't really matter who gets elected during this years general election for the 1.9 million people living with long ...
Shameless corporate media spouts DWP propaganda on PIP benefit fraud from TEN YEARS AGO
Corporate media outlets are no strangers to spinning bile on DWP benefit fraud, but one site has recently ramped this ...
Starmer needs to stop courting the hateful Tory vote with benefit claimants comments
As we hurtle into our last full week of campaigning before the general election next Thursday, the leaders' true colours ...
The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: general election candidates try to prove who hates disabled people the most
It’s hard to believe that we’re on week 756 of general election season. That’s because we’re not - it's only ...
Are disabled and chronically ill people now politically homeless in the general election?
After years of Conservative and Labour Party policies, and general election manifestos where it's now difficult to tell the difference ...
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