The ongoing crisis in Sudan: People with disabilities “face extreme challenges in fleeing violence, accessing aid and protecting themselves from harm”. They are also often among “the first to be left behind and face significantly higher risks of violence, abuse, discrimination, and exclusion”.

'Kemi has become like The Donald. Insisting that night is day. The truth is now a spectrum of relativity.' 'Conveniently forgetting that it was the Tories who hollowed out defence. Kemi seems to think you can build a new destroyer in a couple of days.'

Reform won't be happy until the world lies in cinders.

RSPCA: 'The cost of living crisis and an increase in people experiencing mental health difficulties have led to a rising number of multi-animal rescues.' More pets are being abandoned as people become unable to afford vaccinations, neutering & other medical care & some become overwhelmed.

Our burning of fossil fuels is melting sea ice and drowning emperor penguin chicks, putting them in danger of extinction. 😱

Difficult to describe how unusual it is for @icrc.org to speak publicly like this. "Heavy explosive weapons with wide-area effects struck densely populated urban areas, including the capital Beirut, without effective advance warnings." ICRC Outraged by Deadly Strikes in Densely Populated Areas

'Housing benefit has been frozen since 2024'. The rise in older homelessness is 'linked to the growing number of older people who find themselves living in the private rented sector'. 'One-third of older private renters are in poverty after housing costs'.

Eating a high-quality plant-rich diet that includes whole grains, vegetables and fruits may prevent cognitive impairment — even when people start that diet in their late 50s and 60s, according to a new study. https://cnn.it/4mj9JjP

'Low-income renters of all ages are being left behind.' Local Housing Allowance 'has been frozen for eight out of the last 15 years'. Older private renters "are sometimes forced to wash in cold water, or just heat one room in their home in the depths of winter so they can afford to pay their rent"

'Housing benefit has been frozen since 2024'. The rise in older homelessness is 'linked to the growing number of older people who find themselves living in the private rented sector'. 'One-third of older private renters are in poverty after housing costs'.

Impossible to disagree with a single word that Ben Rhodes (Obama era NSC official) is saying here:

New cuts to UC for ill & disabled people: 'According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 50% of people receiving the Universal Credit health top-up are [already] either unable to heat their home, behind on bills or have low food security.' 'the change...made an "unjust situation even worse".

Such a lovely message...

"Under a 10-20 year system, a worker would spend a decade or more in which their entire immigration status — and [thus] their family’s home, their children’s schooling, their right to remain — depends on maintaining the goodwill of a single employer. That is a structurally coercive relationship."

The Artemis II crew proposed naming a moon crater after Commander Reid Wiseman’s late wife Carroll, who lost her life to cancer 😭

'Low-income renters of all ages are being left behind.' Local Housing Allowance 'has been frozen for eight out of the last 15 years'. Older private renters "are sometimes forced to wash in cold water, or just heat one room in their home in the depths of winter so they can afford to pay their rent"

Lebanon’s medics and hospitals are coming under fire as Israel accelerates its war against Iran-backed Hezbollah militants. Doctors say the attacks on Lebanon's health system remind them of similar tactics used in Gaza.

“Ministers justified reducing support for people too disabled or ill to work by arguing it would remove the “perverse incentives” that discourage employment… as if a twentysomething bedbound with ME just needs “incentivising” to get back to the building site” www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

A 33-year-old woman (who is studying for a master's degree & is a keynote speaker) has been moved, against her will, from her bungalow to a nursing home an hour away from her home & family. It is "totally unlawful" 'for an adult with full mental capacity to be moved...against their will'.

New cuts to UC for ill & disabled people: 'According to the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, 50% of people receiving the Universal Credit health top-up are [already] either unable to heat their home, behind on bills or have low food security.' 'the change...made an "unjust situation even worse".

#Lebanon: Around 2pm Sunday, Israeli forces struck a densely populated area in Beirut, meters from Rafik Hariri Public Hospital, where MSF supports an ER doctor. A mass-casualty influx followed. In the first hour: 4 killed, ~40 injured. More feared as rubble is cleared.

“We are seeing elderly people and adolescents with critical head, chest, and abdominal injuries, including shrapnel wounds,” says Dr. Luna Hammad, MSF Medical Coordinator. “Strikes on crowded areas without warning have severe human and hospital impacts.”

My rescue kitty has come up to my room for the very first time. He's been here for two months & finally left the laundry room to explore the house, yesterday & now he has decided he's sleeping in my bed!

Again, I don’t see how you can read this as anything other than Trump trying to normalize the idea of using nuclear weapons

The biggest story in the world right now is that the president of the United States is a demented old man who takes pleasure in torturing and killing people and is committing crimes with impunity. And yet most legacy media outlets are too cowardly to tell it like it is.

I could almost . . . call them c*te . . . Thank you to Mike Fenton Photography for this morning's #FoxOfTheDay

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Missed this from 3 weeks ago - an Israeli tank struck a house in Lebanon, a Lebanese priest ran in with 10 others to help, and the tank fired again, killing him and wounding 4 people

You wouldn't know it from much of the coverage but Reform are now seven points lower in the polls, on average, than they were six months ago

NEW ANALYSIS: Record wind and solar generation saved UK from gas imports worth £1bn in March 2026 📈Wind+solar were up 22% year-on-year in March to a record high for the month ⛴️This avoided the need for gas imports worth £1bn at current high prices www.carbonbrief.org/...

As Iranian drones target the UAE, Bellingcat reveals a number of instances where authorities downplayed damage and mischaracterised interceptions. Meanwhile the UAE’s attorney general warned that publication of images or videos of strikes is illegal. www.bellingcat.com/news/2026/04...

Labour has been looking to emulate the “Danish model” on immigration. But the Danish Social Democrats just had their worst election result since 1903, writes Morgan Jones

Next week’s disability cuts will make people destitute – and you might not understand how bad they are until it’s too late If new claimants don’t meet strict criteria, they’ll lose half of the health element of universal credit. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Unsurprisingly Telegraph kicks off Autism Acceptance Month by completely misrepresenting the interim findings of the review, which actually found prevalence estimates for ADHD and autism have remained stable. It also flagged that the situation was more complex than saying rates are "skyrocketing"

I know people don't like to think of bad things happening, but anyone could become chronically ill or disabled at any time, through no fault of their own, no matter how healthy they are It shouldn't only be disabled people having to fight the government all the time, it's up to all of us

“That the universal credit cut will affect new claimants says the quiet part out loud: anyone can become disabled or ill. And every time governments slash the safety net, we can’t know if it’ll be us, a loved one or stranger who will fall through it.” Today’s col www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

👀 https://leftfootforward.org/2026/04/reform-meltdown-in-wales-third-candidate-quits-before-senedd-election-citing-serious-concerns/

Some people are being referred to Prevent (deradicalisation programme) purely to speed up access to mental health & neurodiversity services - not because they are a counterterrorism concern. 'Over half a million children and young people in England are on waiting lists for mental health services.'

The shocking news that experts contradict RFK Jr's unscientific advice (US Secretary of Health)

Such 'ick' is fully justified due to: ▶️Chicken farms' nighmarish/cruel conditions ▶️Manure pollution into our waterways ▶️Ammonia air pollution ▶️GHG emissions (nitrous oxide, methane, CO2) ▶️Deforestation for feed ▶️Bird flu & other risks of pandemics ▶️Healthier plant options Keep the ick, shift diet!

Some people are being referred to Prevent (deradicalisation programme) purely to speed up access to mental health & neurodiversity services - not because they are a counterterrorism concern. 'Over half a million children and young people in England are on waiting lists for mental health services.'

The extraordinary documentary evidence at the heart of the UK Afghan war crimes inquiry - a thread. There is currently a public inquiry into alleged war crimes by UK special forces in Afghanistan in 2011-12. The ongoing inquiry has published some interesting and worrying documents. >

Antibiotics are commonly used on farms to combat the spread of disease that can cost animals their health – and farmers their money But their use has been linked to the rise of drug-resistant “superbugs” that contaminate food, make people sick and are increasingly hard to treat

Sickness benefit cuts: The wide range of debilitating conditions may include 'multiple sclerosis, learning disabilities, bipolar, Parkinsons, ME and Long Covid.' The test could also exclude 'people who have had strokes or heart attacks, or people with conditions like cancer or schizophrenia.'

🧵/ 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.

Do read the full document linked here. These ghouls are increasingly Trumpian in their contempt for the truth…

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Any excuse should have been made by the govt to postpone this visit indefinitely. Sending our head of state in the midst of Trump & Netanyahu's illegal war only makes the UK look more complicit

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc Many more peripatetic youth workers also used to go out into communities to reach young people who would never go to a club.