Under 16s to be banned from social media, and a white supremacist who fuels riots on our streets, still allowed to run a whole platform.
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🚨BREAKING NEWS 🚨 We have published our response to the Timms Review, backing calls for an Additional Cost Disability Payment (ACDP). We demand an end to hostility, with a system based on support not punishment. Read the full response 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dr-uk-r...
Face it, you've run out of things to say about the Labour leadership So here's my latest substack on the govt's plans to end the SEND crisis - and what it means to take parents' legal rights away Oh, and how it ties into the Labour leadership battle chamindajayanetti.substack.com/p/send-refor...
SEND reform – a tightrope without a safety net
It’s late afternoon on Friday and you’re done for the week. So read this instead
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Sir Ian McKellen performing a monologue from Shakespeare’s Sir Thomas More on the Stephen Colbert show. Never have I heard this monologue performed with such a keen sense of prescience. Nor have I ever been in this exact historical moment.TY Sir Ian, for reaching us once again. #Pinks #ProudBlue
I think about this poem by Ian Duhig — about Jo Cox, the Labour MP assassinated by a man shouting ‘Britain first’ — every day at the moment. No other contemporary poet has looked so clearly at the political reality of the far right as a minority who must always be appeased
Phillips: "You can't have everything you want.. the language of socialism is.. about how you have to prioritise" The govt prioritised slashing the benefits of people who can't use the toilet on their own or wash themselves, rather than taxing the super rich. Thats not socialism.
“When the political and media class wish to leave disabled people hungry and dirty, the disabled community must explain why we should be allowed to eat and be clean.” Today’s col. reflects on a tough month and what it all means for disability in the U.K. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash | Frances Ryan
Britain’s political and media class advocate policies that leave disabled people hungry and dirty. Why are we expected to settle for this, asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Another unlicensed sewage discharge into our waterways during a dry spell. South East Water hang your heads in shame.
🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨 The Government's Universal Credit Bill has passed, rushing it through in one day, without a committee stage where Disabled people's voices could have been heard. It's clear: the government views Disabled lives as nothing more than a cost-cutting exercise
And the Universal Credit bill has passed. Some of the sickest people in the country will suffer needlessly more now. There is no justification, no excuse. Just ugly, cruel choices by ministers too cowardly to tax the wealthy rather than cut the poor. A shameful day for Starmer’s Labour.
The “welfare reform bill” is out and let’s be clear: this is not reform - it is devastating cuts. Disabled people will be made poorer, sicker, and more isolated as a result. That it is a Labour government causing this misery will be a mark of shame on the party for years to come.
TANK vs TESLA "We've crushed fascism before and we'll crush it again" - WW2 veteran Ken, 98, in the tank
Today Amnesty International UK released a report exposing the brutal reality of the UK social security system that targets those already pushed to the margins. DR UK has authored the section on the impacts on the Disabled community. Please read & share widely! 👇 www.amnesty.org.uk/resources/so...
Social Insecurity Report
We are Amnesty International UK. We are ordinary people from across the world standing up for humanity and human rights.
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🪧Benefit Cuts are Cruel and Unfair 'The government claims it is trying to fix a “broken benefits system,” but it is the hostile and discriminatory culture and systems that need to be fixed.' Read our Head of Policy, Fazilet, in the BMJ today👇 www.bmj.com/content/389/...
UK government’s disability benefit cuts are cruel and unfair
We must unite against harmful cuts and work towards a society that values Disabled people as equal citizens, writes Fazilet Hadi I have been a Disabled person since losing my sight in my teenage yea...
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@activityalliance.bsky.social hi Activity Alliance any news on the national junior para athletics this year?
How f***ing dare she. I am incandescent with rage.
Saul Staniforth@saulstaniforth.bsky.social · last yr.Yesterday evening Darren Jones apologised on Pestons programme for his comments comparing Personal Independence Payments received by disabled people with kids getting pocket money. On LBC a couple of hours earlier Rachel Reeves backed the comparison.
We’ve been travelling across the UK with a very simple message ahead of the #SpringStatement: Our country misses out on £460 million a week without a wealth tax. No cuts. Tax our wealth.
At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.
We're in London today with a big old bus to tell our Govt this country cannot afford cuts. Instead they should tax us, the super rich. A 2% wealth tax alone could raise up to £460mln a week. @Keir_starmer - invest in a fairer economy. Patriotic Millionaires say Tax Our Wealth
🚨 The rumoured cuts to disability and long-term sickness benefits are unprecedented. If the total £6 billion cuts go ahead it would be the *biggest* cut to disability benefits since at least 2010 when the OBR was created. 🧵 [1/5]
ICYMI: 📊 We found that disabled people had a poverty rate of 30%, 10 percentage points higher than the rate for people who were not disabled. In January, our UK Poverty report provided an overview of the depth and breadth of poverty in 2025 across the country. (1/2)
'Many of us...have a feeling that we are living in a country where fanatics, hooligans and eccentrics have got the upper hand.' British Ambassador to Berlin, 1933.
#FoxOfTheDay 🦊 SHARE if you want a proper ban on fox hunting! It is 20 years since the ban on hunting came into effect yet hunts continue to hunt and kill foxes and deer etc with impunity!! 🤬
