Disabled people who can’t work should get more than the minimum wage in benefits.
This should not be a controversial thing to say, especially when being disabled costs more than £1000 extra per month on average.
You cannot “incentivise” work for those unable to work.
PUBLIC LECTURE:
My end of @leverhulme.ac.uk fellowship lecture is on the 24th of September! It will be in person at @durhampsych.bsky.social and also streamed online. Tickets are available on Eventbrite.
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/centre-for...
Just over two months until RAMPING UP RIGHTS: An Unfinished History of British Disability Activism is out!
It brings together over 100 years of action and looks at how we use that to fight for disabled people's rights now.
You can preorder here:
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
So this phrase “able-bodied” has clearly been on the most recent list of R talking points. It comes from the first round of English labor laws, which were instituted after the Black Death.
A mini medieval story time!
Channel 4 to show BBC-commissioned documentary Gaza: Doctors Under Attack
BBC last week announced it had dropped the film over concerns it may create a ‘perception of partiality’
www.theguardian.com/media/2025/j...
I hate to say it, but if Long Covid is seen as primarily impacting women then our odds of ever getting it taken seriously go way down.
Misogyny in medicine. It knows no bounds.
If Parliament changed a rule they didn't have to change to specifically ban you the day before you were due to turn up to Parliament, you'd think it was targeted, too.
Olivia Blake, one of the few Labour MPs with a disclosed disability, has accused the government of creating an “unethical two-tier system” by its welfare bill concessions - and urged rebels to stand firm.
My exclusive in tomorrow’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
By shifting to the right on disability support cuts, anti trans, anti-immigration policies, Labour doesn't draw those who support such policies away from Reform, they provide free advertising for Reform's arguments, while losing those who disagree with such hostile policies. 4/
Allowing assisted dying while savagely cutting PIP is telling disabled people they're allowed to die with dignity but not to live with dignity
A young Canadian with the same conditions as me ended her life via Assisted Dying.
What did she want? Palliative care & better pain management.
What was she offered? MAiD.
This is the problem. The safeguards come off & disabled people can’t access the care they need to survive.
The world feels emptier having lost a brilliant writer & philosopher, @helendecruz.net - a strong & prescient voice on Covid too. I truly enjoyed this read👇🏼
Not enough attention on Blue Labour's insidious relationship with Thiel and Karp's CIA spytech company Palantir who have 24 contracts with UK public institutions, including the NHS, the Police Force, the Ministry of Defence, the Cabinet Office, and the DLUHC. No one voted for this.
Palantir, headed in the UK by the grandson of the head of the British Union of Fascists, are building a police database to surveil people based on these factors. What more is there to say at this point.
Source libertyinvestigates.org.uk/articles/uk-...
Keep Palantir OUT of our government.
#nzpol
“The hospital is not to ask me about suicide. Do not ask. Do not ask. How many times do I have to tell the hospital?”
Roger Foley is a disabled Canadian who went public with recordings of hospital staff pressuring him to do assisted suicide
Now they’re denying him food & water
Retaliation is real
14,000 babies are at risk of dying in the next 48 hours in Gaza if aid doesn’t reach them, warns Tom Fletcher, the UN’s under-secretary-general for humanitarian affairs – a figure he called “utterly chilling.”
🔴 LIVE updates: aje.io/x26ghx
We've published our full response to the proposed changes to sickness and disability benefits:
1. This is the biggest cut to sickness and disability benefits in a generation. It will push 50,000 children into poverty, and reduce living standards for many more.
The “covid is only a threat to the vulnerable” narrative primed the pump for the eugenics movement we’re seeing now.
It conditioned people to see the disabled & vulnerable as acceptable losses. People who were probably going to “die anyways”.
It paved the way for fascism.
My quick take on Labour's anti-immigration policies, and the inevitable harm which they will cause. Starmer is mirroring Reform, but can never go far enough to appease them. #r4today
“Gaza will be entirely destroyed,” Israeli minister says.
Israel is saying the quiet part out loud and have been doing so for a long time. When will its defenders admit they’ve been supporting genocide all along? www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...
👾 Millions of us have been experiencing the hell of "Long COVID Mode" for years. Now, video games & other games are illustrating how the disease can affect your abilities & what your risk of of developing it are.
New feature by @kaatefishman.bsky.social !
thesicktimes.org/2025/05/06/l...
A family of three sits together on a floral-patterned sofa, holding hands and smiling gently at one another. The mother, Oksana Shahar, is in the centre with long dark curly hair, flanked by her husband, Guy Shahar, on the left, and their teenage son on the right, who wears a white polo shirt with a school logo. The headline below reads: “Carer’s allowance crisis – Mother of autistic boy left with £10,000 debt after breaching DWP rules by £1.92 a week.” Subheading: “Over five-year period Oksana Shahar – who cares for her son – was paid a small amount more than carer’s allowance earnings limits allow.” The article is written by Josh Halliday and dated Saturday 3 May 2025.
This is the DWP the public need to understand. A Kafkaesque system of impossible to understand, contradictory rules which folk often innocently trip up on to which they receive a brutal, excessive response that plunges people into despair and poverty. The DWP needs to fix itself.
Photo of Darren (a white man wearing a black winter jacket and a black winter hat) is holding a protest sign. The (mocked up) sign reads in bold red text: "DON'T CUT MY DISABILITY BENEFITS #TaxTheRich." The background shows a clear blue sky and some trees.
I can't go to in-person protests any more due to #LongCovid.
But I can raise my voice online in solidarity with those that can.
So here's my #Mayday message for Keir Starmer.
#DisabilityRebellion
Please help @abiabnormal.bsky.social with this petition by signing and sharing everywhere 💜
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...
#DisabilityRebellion #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare #MayDay
