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Catherine Hale

@catherinehale.bsky.social

Founder, Disability Insight. Independent research and policy consultant on disability employment and social security. Founded Chronic Illness Inclusion. #pwME and survivor of medical abuse.

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George Monbiot@georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 24h ago

Here's today's column on the astonishing, ongoing mistreatment of people with #ME/CFS. Please spread it far and wide: the only thing which can break the media's wall of indifference is seeing an article about the issue go viral. Thank you. 1/2 www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Abandoned, dismissed and gaslighted: there is no excuse for the way ME sufferers have been betrayed | George Monbiot

Changes in guidance and science seem to have little impact on millions of devastated lives. It’s a social crisis playing out behind closed doors, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot

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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd@aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 3w ago

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Louise Murphy@louisemurphy.bsky.social · 3mo ago

The interim report of the Timms Review of PIP was published this morning, and its conclusion is stark: "PIP is not working." Here's a thread summarising what it says, and what we might expect from the final report in the autumn. 🧵

Dr Seth Thévoz@seththevoz.bsky.social · 5mo ago

It never ceases to amaze me how many election pundits don’t understand the dynamics of First Past the Post, and how vote-splitting works under the UK’s electoral system. John Curtice does. Listen to John Curtice.

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Dr Rachel Clarke@drrachelclarke.com · 6mo ago

🧵/ The NHS is about to undergo one of the most radical – and scandalous - changes in its history. From 1st April (the public are the fools in this), GPs will be contractually obliged to seek remote “advice & guidance” from hospital clinicians, making it even harder to see an NHS specialist.

Screenshot of Times piece with headline "Millions to be denied hospital referrals in drive to cut waiting lists."
Disability News Service@johnpring.bsky.social · 6mo ago

Self-employed disabled people who seek support through the government’s Access to Work scheme are facing delays of up to 19 months for a decision on their claim, months longer than MPs were told in a Commons meeting earlier this month. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/self-employe...

Self-employed disabled people face waiting up to 19 months for Access to Work decisions, evidence shows

Self-employed disabled people who seek support through the government’s Access to Work scheme are facing delays of up to 19 months for a decision on their claim, months longer than MPs were told in…

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Carole Bruce@cabruce.bsky.social · 6mo ago

The lack of education about #ME to HCPs is not an oversight, it is a carefully planned strategy by those who continue to undermine anyone or anything that might change things for #pwME Our own personal oligarchs maintaining and gaining power while we rot in our beds.

Dr Zara Bain@zaranosaur.bsky.social · 7mo ago

If you’re hosting in-person-only academic conferences, may I say a hearty fuck you! Yours sincerely, An academic who pre-COVID needed remote access and couldn’t often get it with hugely marginalising impacts on my and others’ like me capacity to contribute to knowledge

Catherine Hale@catherinehale.bsky.social · 7mo ago

Sue is half the reason I got into disability activism back in 2012 and still try to disrupt the status quo through my work today. This post is vintage Sue! @suey2y.bsky.social

Sue Marsh@suey2y.bsky.social · 7mo ago

"I was just an ordinary person with no media experience at all. And I found the whole thing darkly fascinating. Like a front-row seat at a scary clown circus. “Roll-up! Roll-up! Take a peek behind the Magical Media Curtain. See the strings behind the Marvellous Mechanicals!”

Frances Ryan@francesryan.bsky.social · 7mo ago

When ministers defended Starmer over Mandelson’s links to Epstein this week, they rushed to X - a platform that lets users strip photos of women and girls. Is it surely time for the government to log off X? And is social media too toxic for all of us? My col: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it? | Frances Ryan

With so many platforms rife with racism, misogyny and far-right rhetoric, there must be a point where decent people walk away, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Dr Zara Bain@zaranosaur.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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Academic Audio Transcription Ltd@aat-transcribes.bsky.social · 8mo ago

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Catherine Hale@catherinehale.bsky.social · 8mo ago

Energy limiting conditions are still largely missing from how we think about disability— despite how common they are. Here's my new explainer on ELCs, drawing together my previous research, thinking and practice. disabilityinsight.co.uk/about/what-a...

What are energy-limiting conditions?

What are energy-limiting conditions? A core concept for disability inclusion policy and practice Energy Limiting Conditions (ELCs) describe a form of disability where energy production itself is im…

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