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 ...
Tag: disability
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 ...
DWP complaints up 38%, with Universal Credit causing chaos for countless families
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has seen a 38% increase in just three years in the number of ...
2025 is going to be a rough year for disabled people. We’ve got to be ready.
The year has barely started but already disabled people are on our guard for more attacks. And we’ve got good ...
DWP pays HALF A BILLION to dead people – while underpaying pensions & cutting benefits
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has mistakenly paid £512 million in state pension and pension credits to deceased ...
Four new year resolutions Keir Starmer needs to make to disabled people
Happy new year! As the Canary is back from our Christmas break today I thought what better time to start ...
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 ...
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 ...
The Covid Day of Reflection is a disgrace and an ill-advised insult to millions of people
The Canary has given me the chance to write an article on Lisa Nandy’s ill-advised decision to hold a UK ...
Just one disabled MP sitting on the Assisted Dying Bill committee shows what a sham it is
Membership of the committee set to scrutinise Kim Leadbeater’s bill to legalise assisted dying shows already that the process will ...
A severe ME/CFS patient in Pakistan is urgently fundraising for crucial surgery
In Pakistan, severely chronically ill disability advocate and survivor of domestic violence Nevra Liz Ahmed urgently needs surgery for a ...
The government could be in the dock over its failure to protect disabled people from climate crisis
Friends of the Earth and two co-claimants are appealing against the High Court’s decision in October to reject their legal ...
DWP strips severely chronically ill mother and disabled son of £8k a year in Universal Credit migration
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit mandatory managed migration has stripped a severely chronically ill and largely ...
The DWP is facing court action next week which Labour shamelessly CHOSE to defend
On Tuesday 10 and Wednesday 11 November, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is in court in London. Campaigner ...
Channel 4 denies Fraser Nelson’s Dispatches conflict of interest – as Nelson boasts otherwise
After the Canary revealed the glaring conflict of interest of presenter Fraser Nelson in Channel 4’s Dispatches, the producer has ...
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