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'Terrified of rent increase': How housing benefit cuts hit renters The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters

'Terrified of a rent increase': How Labour's housing benefit cuts are hitting renters
The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Comment documenter la vie des campements d'exilés sans tomber dans le misérabilisme ? Depuis plus de dix ans, @louiswitter.com photographie et raconte la situation de la Jungle de Calais. Entretien avec @paulinebock.bsky.social ⤵️
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This is awful news. One of the original legal bloggers and one of the very best. nearlylegal.co.uk/2026/04/gile...

Very sad to hear about @nearlylegal.co.uk . As I told him once, at the other place, he was one of my hero.

10 ans à couvrir Calais, la frontière et l’exil : entretien avec Louis Witter - Par Pauline Bock | Arrêt sur images La critique média en toute indépendance : enquêtes, analyses, chroniques et émissions.

Longtemps que je souhaitais revenir sur ce sujet : la "routine" qui s'impose à la frontière franco-britannique.

Celle des passages, des violences contre les personnes exilées mais une autre également : la routine médiatique.

Merci @arretsurimages.net !
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'Terrified of rent increase': How housing benefit cuts hit renters The government froze local housing allowance, which effectively meant a real-terms cut to housing benefit. This is what it means for renters

NEW: More than 160,000 private renters on low incomes face rent shortfalls worth up to hundreds or even thousands of pounds a year due to Labour’s housing benefit cuts

Greater Manchester and the West Midlands are particularly badly hit

By me, for the Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/housing...

Claude Francois - Comme D'Habitude YouTube video by nilinmavisi

Why not this version of "My Way". After all, it was a French singer who wrote the song
Claude Francois - Comme D'Habitude youtu.be/w22haP4hgsQ?... via @YouTube

It would have all make us a favour if the day the Mendelsohn story/vetting issue came out was the day BlueSky was down

As a EU national living in the UK, I would love UK to rejoin, but I prefer they don't

Screenshot of a tweet: God Save Great Britain & @GSGB01 WOW: The NHS has ordered staff not to use the phrase 'It's raining cats & dogs' in fear of upsetting people from other cultures and religion. Britain has gone absolutely

Screenshot of a tweet: @Jenny_1884 The NHS has ordered staff not to use the term "It's raining cats & dogs" as it may offend foreigners. Tough If you don't like it jog on is what I think The NHS needs to get back to concentrating on making people better & not being more concerned about offending

For the love of God, could the "common sense" brigade PLEASE develop some actual COMMON SENSE?!

No, the NHS has not ordered staff not to use the term "it's raining cats and dogs" for fear of either upsetting or offending anyone...

Please engage your brains for a minute🙏
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I have to say, most doctors/consultants nowadays treat you as adults, but it was not always the case.

I have to say that "raining cats and dogs" is something I can deal with, but when I was asked "did you pass water", or "did you open your bowels", I did not have a clue what the question was all about.

Government must do far more to co-produce mental health reforms, minister is told by disabled campaigners The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms. A disabled-led network of org…

The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms.
#MentalHealthAct
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‘Intrusive’ Motability app is ‘worse than having a computer virus’ An “absolutely awful” mobile phone app that helps the Motability scheme monitor the driving behaviour of increasing numbers of disabled people is securing overwhelmingly poor reviews from its custo…

An “absolutely awful” mobile phone app that helps the #Motability scheme monitor the driving behaviour of increasing numbers of disabled people is securing overwhelmingly poor reviews from its customers.
#DriveSmart
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Food banks are not part of a safety net. they are proof we do not have a safety net.

Anything by Nikos Kazantzakis

Government must do far more to co-produce mental health reforms, minister is told by disabled campaigners The government has been told to do far more to place people with learning difficulties and autistic people at the heart of its controversial Mental Health Act reforms. A disabled-led network of org…

Government must do far more to co-produce mental health reforms, minister is told by disabled campaigners www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-m... via @johnpringdns

BBC today correct Nigel Farage's false claim to Nick Robinson on Political Thinking (13th February 2026) that net migration was only down due to an "exodus" of people leaving the UK since 90% of net migration fall was a fall in immigration. After my 3rd complaint!
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Motability customer launches legal action against Treasury over tax measures that put ‘lifeline’ at risk A Motability customer has launched a legal action against the Treasury over budget measures that he says will put at risk the mobility “lifeline” the scheme provides to disabled people. Charlie Pro…

Motability customer launches legal action against Treasury over tax measures that put ‘lifeline’ at risk www.disabilitynewsservice.com/motability-c... via @johnpringdns

DWP refuses to release PIP assessment audit that followed death or serious harm of ‘Customer 23’ The government is facing accusations of a cover-up after refusing to release a report that examined the quality of personal independence payment (PIP) assessments, following a sub-standard test lin…

DWP refuses to release PIP assessment audit that followed death or serious harm of ‘Customer 23’ www.disabilitynewsservice.com/dwp-refuses-... via @johnpringdns

It did manage to cut in half the Universal Credit health element

How the government and the DWP made PIP policy on the fly - Who voted for this In this episode, I talk to renowned benefits journalist Chaminda Jayanetti. We talk about this Labour government's attempt to make cuts to the personal independence payment disability support ben...

Listening to "How the government and the DWP made PIP policy on the fly" at www.buzzsprout.com/2414550/epis...

The PIP cuts failed, but the government did manage to get through savage cuts to Universal Credit disability benefits for new claimants, which kicked in earlier this month

How the government and the DWP made PIP policy on the fly - Who voted for this In this episode, I talk to renowned benefits journalist Chaminda Jayanetti. We talk about this Labour government's attempt to make cuts to the personal independence payment disability support ben...

A bit of a rarity here - I was interviewed by the brilliant @katebelgrave.bsky.social for her podcast, talking about the government's calamitous attempts to cut PIP:
whovotedforthis.buzzsprout.com/2414550/epis...

The story about fraud in the Asylum system is a mirror image of what is happening with people on benefits. A few cases are singled out in the press, turning public opinion against both kind of claimants, and it always precede introduction of cuts or harsher restrictions by the government

I told this story before. When the tsunami´struck in 2004, JCB offered his services and equipment to help with reconstruction. They were not needed there, but NGOs suggested that JCB divert them to Chad, a forgotten emergency with no media coverage. JCB refused

I just caught up with the BBC story about migrants pretending to be gay. It concerns 2-3% of asylum seekers. Fraud happens in any system, but this is a non story. The BBc should be ashamed to run with this

I am not sure what I think about Iran using a French song to get at Trump, but I hope it will make Desireless more famous and global www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nlgm...

Switch to Universal Credit is robbing thousands of ‘most vulnerable people’ Shared from the Camden New Journal with thanks by Tom Foot, 9 April 2026 Disabled people are being robbed of benefits due to overhaul of the system designed to “scrape” some of the most…

Switch to Universal Credit is robbing thousands of ‘most vulnerable people’, reports @newjournal.bsky.social

The Government have failed to protect thousands of vulnerable people who have been forced to negotiate a complicated switch over to Universal Credit.

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