The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: don’t worry, disabled TODDLERS are fair game to right-wing rags too
The new Labour Party government might be in summer recess, but there’s no time like the present for throwing disabled ...
Tag: disability
Phantom healthcare for ‘real’ diseases: when will ME/CFS and long Covid get parity?
Historically, medicine has had a problem with women, especially those who were not married. Sounds unrealistic? The nineteenth century wasn’t ...
Grieving for loss of life: the untold ME/CFS – from silent, darkened rooms
In silent darkened rooms where millions lie, the world turns unaware of profound loss of life. myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is ...
Daily Mail just fired the starting gun for the new DWP war on disabled people
The Daily Mail has had a busy couple of days spewing out scapegoating propaganda for its billionaire owners and the ...
It’s Gastroparesis Awareness Month – yet we need to talk about EDS and ME/CFS
August is Gastroparesis Awareness Month. However, two conditions gastroparesis is often found in are also often overlooked: EDS and ME/CFS. ...
Maeve’s inquest was a whitewash and the coroner betrayed everyone living with ME/CFS
On Friday 9 August, the inquest into the death of very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient Maeve Boothby O'Neill concluded ...
The DWP just gave a harmful back-to-work contract to notorious Serco
Notorious outsourcing company Serco has tightened its grip on the welfare state. Another contract from the Department for Work and ...
This Severe ME Day, patients are still dying in hospitals as the world walks by
Another year, another Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) Day will pass with NHS hospitals abusing, neglecting, and psychologising patients living with ...
After the NHS failed Maeve, on Severe ME Day campaigners will call for an NHS protocol
Thursday 8 August is Severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) Day. And this year, grassroots ME organisations will launch a new campaign ...
DWP wrongly accused PIP claimant of £28,000 fraud – then backtracked
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has wrongly stripped a disabled woman of her vital Personal Independence Payment (PIP). ...
Disabled people march on Downing Street to demand accessible housing
This week disabled campaigners and allies marched on parliament to demand the new government pledge to build new accessible housing. ...
A major ME charity shared an article gaslighting Maeve after her death
It’s the second week of an inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O’Neill. In 2021, the 27-year-old died of ...
Labour DWP ministers leave chronically ill and disabled people in the dark over controversial PIP reform proposals
Labour Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) ministers are keeping hush hush over the new government's plans for the Tories ...
Labour’s housing policy has already forgotten about disabled people
So far, the policy announcements made by Labour regarding housing and in their Renters Reform Bill have mentioned affordability. However, ...
DWP makes callers wait 753 years says report – but that’s the good news
In just one year, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) made members of the public wait a collective 753 ...
This week: legal challenge against the government from disabled people and Friends of the Earth
A legal challenge over the UK government’s failure to protect disabled people, property and infrastructure from the foreseeable impacts of ...
One sentence from the coroner accidentally summed up why the NHS failed Maeve
It has been day three of the inquest into the death of Maeve Boothby O'Neill, who died of myalgic encephalomyelitis ...
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