A hospital in New Zealand discharged a young severe ME/CFS patient to a care home for pensioners
A hospital in New Zealand discharged a 34-year-old severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient to a care home for pensioners. There, ...
Tag: disability
How to get involved with Friday’s #AssistUsToLive anti-Assisted Dying action online
On Friday 29 November, Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill will have its second reading in parliament. For those opposed to ...
Labour’s Get Britain Working plan is based on a massive LIE the DWP has pushed for nearly 20 years
The frantic government and media propaganda campaign around economic inactivity has picked up a pace. The Labour Party-run Department for ...
Channel 4 just gave Fraser Nelson a show about disability and benefits. For shame.
A new Channel 4 Dispatches documentary claiming one of the biggest challenges to the Labour Party government is people on ...
The Assisted Dying Bill is an ableist abomination – not that Kim Leadbeater even realises
Dignity in Dying has ramped up its campaigning ahead of the second reading of Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill on ...
An open letter to my MP Cat Smith over the Assisted Dying Bill
The following is an open letter to Labour Party MP Cat Smith, over the Assisted Dying Bill. Dear Cat Smith, ...
Deaf people face systemic barriers in TV, film, media – and it’s got worse
The film and television industry needs to “move from well-meaning words to tangible change”, according to a Sir Lenny Henry ...
Pro-assisted dying group has its origins in eugenics – and it all revolves around your favourite chocolate company
What does a sitting Labour MP, a multimillion charitable trust, and the most prominent UK-based pro-assisted dying lobby group have ...
Long Covid has left me feeling worthless and invisible – and Labour is making it worse
My name is Sam. I am 52. I am doubly disabled. I am Autistic and I have been disabled with ...
Labour benefit reforms ALREADY fatally flawed, by banging on about saving £3bn
Labour Party plans to get more disabled people back to work must ensure that the risk is not carried solely ...
Access to Work scheme is letting down countless disabled people
When Glyn Hayes from Welwyn in Hertfordshire applied to Access to Work for a new wheelchair attachment, he never expected ...
Disabled people need YOUR support fighting against the Assisted Dying Bill
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater's Assisted Dying Bill will have its second reading, and vote, in parliament on 29 November. As ...
A young woman with severe ME/CFS in Pakistan needs an in-person advocate – can you help?
A young woman, Nevra, who lives with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is issuing an urgent call out for an in-person ...
Disabled people earn £4,300 less a year – but Labour STILL want to force us into work
How much will you earn between now and the rest of the year? Well if you’re disabled it’s effectively nothing. ...
Tanni Grey-Thompson and Sophie Morgan to lead taskforce over disabled people’s right to fly
Disabled air passengers will benefit from better protections when flying thanks to a new expert group announced on Thursday 7 ...
Labour’s Mental Health Act reforms won’t stop the abuse of Autistic people
The following article is a comment piece from Simone Aspis, project manager for Free Our People Now - a project ...
The NHS public consultation is NOT accessible for chronically ill people. So, the Canary has stepped in.
The new Labour Party government has recently launched an NHS public consultation - to mixed responses. The Canary's Dr Julia ...
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