Disability activist was granted Freedom of the City – then couldn’t get on the stage
It’s amazing how ableism can so quickly turn honor and celebration into insult and injury. That might sound like the ...
Tag: disability
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 ...
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 ...
The corporate media is using DWP claimants for clicks over Universal Credit
Corporate media outlet BirminghamLive has published another misleading article on the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) Universal Credit. In ...
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 ...
The general election just BURIED news about the DWP’s Universal Credit roll out
With all eyes trained on the final sprint to general election day, a local news site quietly dropped news on ...
Shadow DWP minister REFUSED to say Labour will make UNCRPD law
Labour’s shadow minister for the Department of Work and Pensions (DWP) Alison McGovern has thrown the spotlight on another galling ...
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 ...
The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: the Wet Wipe Farewell Tour
Well, we’re on the home stretch of the general election, the Tories are almost definitely going to lose spectacularly, and ...
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