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...
"Apart from the noise, night and day, it has been fine. I don’t just rage, rage against the dying of the light, but also against #clinicians who think they’re God and that a #DisabledPerson at 61 has lived long enough.": buff.ly/XMV5JPA
via @thespectator1828.bsky.social
#ableism #healthcare #doctor
Palantir’s deranged manifesto shows why it should be nowhere near our public services.
This is not a normal company, it's Trump's favourite tech firm and a danger to our NHS.
I feel incredibly fortunate to be able to speak my mind, to state what I believe even when it's directly at odds with billionaire power. I'm among the minority allowed to do it. But it's not a privilege. It's a right. And everyone should possess it.
Fake Daily mail headline. We blame migrants so you don’t blame billionaires
Almost everything we argue about is a substitute for the thing we should be arguing about: the immense wealth & power of an oligarchic class, which captures governments, ruins lives and wrecks the living planet.
This class redirects our rage at scapegoats. To resist its lies is to resist its power.
I have signed a letter to the Foreign Secretary about the escalation of deadly Israeli settler violence in the West Bank and Israel’s systematic demolition of Palestinian homes.
The letter urges the government to make diplomatic interventions and impose sanctions on Israeli settlements.
Us too, Curlew… us too. 😴
#MondayMotivation
Part of a colourful Roman mosaic floor depicting doves drinking from a vase from a townhouse that dates AD 1-50. The house is now below the Caseggiato delle Taberne in #OstiaAntica.
📷 my own.
#MosaicMonday #Archaeology #AncientRome
More than half of Britons support rejoining EU 10 years on from Brexit vote.
Brexit was secured with lies. It hasn't delivered any of the claimed economic benefits.
Post Trump world will be more polarized.
Nobody under the age of 28 had a say on Brexit.
Need another referendum.
“I was brainwashed by Nigel Farage.”
We asked people in East Wiltshire, the constituency of Danny Kruger, if Brexit was a mistake. Here's what they said. ⬇️
Write to your local paper to show it is time to talk about EU membership: www.bestforbritain.org/write_to_paper_eu_member...
#justice4me.uk campaign mssg: thanks for impressive response to time limited call. We appreciate every contribution & the risk of PEM associated. We are with you in this.
I say, systemic failure is not easily changed but the change needed is small and easily made @sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social meet me
The walk I managed about half of - gradually - over many days last week!
An absolute gem of a circular walk in The Yorkshire Dales!
Thank you @yorkie72.bsky.social 🙏
@yorkshiredales.org.uk
« À Blois, rendre visible l’épuisement : l’EM sort de l’ombre »
Un second article qui revient sur notre mobilisation de samedi vient de paraître dans Blois Capitale.
Oh yeah.
It’s here.
Limited copies available to order.
www.longcovidkids.org/post/covid-m...
#graphicnovel #longcovidkids #resources #longcovid
Today is your last chance to register for a vote in the May 7 elections 🗳️
Make sure you apply by 11:59pm tonight ⏬
www.gov.uk/register-to-vote
And it shines the absolutely ignominy for gvts pretending to be leaders on welfare and social justice like 🇨🇵 🇬🇧 and 🇪🇺
Every day it passes without taking action is making this historical stain worse.
#GreatestMEdicalScandal
@sharonhodgsonmp.bsky.social
@stephanie_rist
@sant.europarl.europa.eu
I love this island of wild flowers on sycamore roots, at Grenofen woods last week, #Dartmoor #Devon #photography
La liste impressionnante des actions et rassemblements organisés dans toute l'Allemagne par le collectif @liegenddemo.bsky.social autour de la journée internationale de sensibilisation à l'EM.
#MEawarnessDay #MECFS #12mai
justice4me.uk call for evidence - time sensitive!! If you know anyone who has severe/very severe ME, or severe/very severe Long Covid, in England or Wales please ask them to fill out the form and send it back to admin@justice4me.uk by Friday 17 April 2026.
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I went to the library to get a book on Pavlov's dog and Schrodinger's cat.
The librarian said that she thought it rang a bell but wasn't sure if it was there or not!
Did you know that among our many products about hidden disabilities, we have these bumper stickers? - You can check out our range of hidden-disability products here: www.stickmancommunications.co.uk/hidden-disab...
Reform’s local elections campaign in Bradford is off to a terrible start ❌
hopenothate.org.uk/2026/04/16/r...
Butterflies are in serious decline.
Latest reports say of the 59 native species monitored, 33 have declined & 25 have improved. Butterflies whose lifecycles are tied to specific habitats, such as woodland clearings or chalk grasslands, are those struggling.
You can help in a small way...
BBC Radio 4 Feedback full segment. Listeners share their concerns about Dr Suzanne O’Sullivan’s claim that #LongCOVID is psychosomatic. Includes an interview with @NickyProctor (11 mins)
youtu.be/Du4devaRH5w?...
Nikki Proctor on BBC Radio 4’s Feedback says she was surprised Amol Rajan didn’t raise #MECFS with Suzanne O’Sullivan on his podcast, after O’Sullivan said #LongCOVID was largely psychosomatic, given the “backlash and criticism of her position” on #MECFS.
Linda Yaccarino replies to a Zohran Mamdani tweet to say that taxing rich people's penthouses is "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen"
Zohran Mamdani said he's going to start taxing rich people who buy luxury housing in NYC but don't actually live in there, and the former CEO of Twitter/X called it "actually one of the scariest things I have ever seen."
Grenofen bridge and the river Walkham this week, #Dartmoor, #Devon. #photography
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BBC Radio 4 is framing Suzanne O’Sullivan’s perspective as “radical.”
It isn’t.
It’s a familiar move: when medicine doesn’t yet have answers, the problem is relocated from the body to the mind.
BBCR4Feedback is covering the response to Amol Rajan TODAY at 3.30
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📍Loci: Ghostly Magic at Broadwell in Oxfordshire www.digest.andymarsh...
