❓Could Labour employing an ex-Sun editor to run civil service comms have led to the DWP publishing a video aimed at disabled people • with no subtitles • "read more" link to a paywalled article in the Sun's sister paper • that reveals that "voluntary" work support won't be? Answers on a🎴

There comes a time for involuntary work conversations with the entirety of the front bench.

I was talking about it again on Thursday, reflecting "We have just had a very long debate focusing on those digital safety issues, but, somehow, even despite the Covid pandemic, we have rather less focus on biological virus risks" hansard.parliament.uk/lords/2025-0...

📣 This is your reminder to #test. ‼️ Please keep sick & infectious children at home. As our supoort group posts start to see the reality of back to school without mitigations / air filtration young people are getting reinfected. #Infections #reinfections #education

We are proud to have collaborated with Combination Dance to create a powerful new film launching in 8 days — giving young people with Long Covid the voices + visibility they deserve. Together, we can build a world where no child is left behind. 💕 @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social #LongCovidKids #Dance

A reminder that a legal guidance on the use of FFP3 masks to protect healthcare workers from airborne infections now exists in the UK. 👇

2 news releases "Major report tackles Covid’s cardiovascular crisis head-on" www.eurekalert.org/news-release... www.eurekalert.org/news-release... Paper academic.oup.com/eurjpc/advan... Very disappointing no mention of PEM or ME/CFS in paper. Rehab like this may harm some #LongCovid #PASC

Muckraking and dirty politics is a terrible, terrible thing to do, isn't it. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

One of the most unedifying things about the Windsor banquet - for both the government and the royal family - was the presence of Rupert Murdoch, seated next to Morgan McSweeney

We can't have four more years of *this*. Whatever the answer is — and it certainly isn't Reform — this can't go on. In the absence of hope, people pick change, even if it is for the worse. The only way to avoid a change for the worse is an option of a change for the better. We need that, yesterday.

Short🧵on transport. The UK has the world's most expensive public transport. It's not even good, and it's not a large country. A return rail journey, ~200 miles each way, between England's two main cities, London and Manchester will set you back £100 for discounted prices on selected off-peak trains.

From the makers of the UC Bill, a sequel: the #TaxiTax". After cutting #disabled people's welfare access, exposing Motability and blue badge drivers to so much hate that many can't face renewing, and dropping accessible rail, let's make taxis unaffordable next. www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

The only possible conclusion is that it is this government's strategy to let Covid disable more people and then to punish them for it — like they punish all disabled people with stigma and cuts. And if life is unbearable, to assist ill and disabled people to die. That is its entire legacy in 2025.

A welcome @MetroUK article, but the legacy is ongoing — each #Covid wave leaves more people disabled, and we are in a Covid wave in the UK *right now*. The #LongCovid legacy: "People don't want to think about us" metro.co.uk/2025/09/20/l...

A suggestion for UK Parliament. Before passing any new law, consider plausible worst case scenario for how a future Reform government would use it. Then start to review existing laws. And if you don’t, don’t complain when it all goes wrong (assuming that government hasn’t locked you all up)

I am waiting for December for the statement on hospitals being overloaded yet again with ‘Winter viruses’ 🙄 Remember when we get there that Labour abandoned 13 million clinically vulnerable on vaccines and failed to roll to prevent/protect #Longcovid.

Press release for French-British research study: "Menstrual cycle and long COVID: a relation confirmed" www.cnrs.fr/en/press/men... Paper: "The potential bidirectional relationship between long COVID and menstruation" www.nature.com/articles/s41... #LongCovid #WomensHealth #PASC #PwLC #postcovid

RFK Jr's first Round Table on #LongCovid with @zalaly.bsky.social and others (thank you). Until money is put where the mouth is, this is talk, but talk is a start. Can #UK government now break its vow of silence on Covid, as hospitals fill up, and adress Long Covid? www.youtube.com/watch?v=-eor...

@mrjamesob.bsky.social RECORD levels of sickness. Guess what they don't mention? Look at the graph! It is absurd that this whole report won't say it out loud. More ppl are sick (short and long term). Apart from the homeworkers! with.https://bsky.app/profile/annemarie1.bsky.social/post/3lyl46tyogk2f

" ... the BBC has examined French property and company records and has been unable to find evidence that Ferrari's parents have the means to give their daughter a significant contribution towards the purchase of the home"

It's almost a tradition that "I have full confidence in" is swiftly followed by...

The evolution of this story is a story in itself. An accident, much speculation, a bit of self-promotion, the usual experts on "mass hysteria"... And then, as Occam's razor has it, the simplest explanation — a can of noxious gas. The story is a cautionary tale not to take big egoes at face value.

Prof Christina Pagel of Independent SAGE will be talking about Trump's impact in US, Europe & beyond in a GfE RT Webinar on Tues Sep 9th 5-6:30pm UK time. Register here: buytickets.at/grassrootsfo.... Donations are optional. The Trump Action Tracker is here: www.trumpactiontracker.info

A year into government, Labour partnering with private capital indicates abandoned principles and prioritisation of corporate interests Cleisthenes’ Disciple northwestbylines.co.uk/politics/opi...

Imagine living with a disability Open and easy access for the public widens participation at events and in venues. It also makes good business sense, and is considerate, respectful, and kind to us all northeastbylines.co.uk/lifestyle/im...

Please join me in supporting @atlantarey.bsky.social petition for action to curb #disability hate speech in the UK. It couldn't be more timely. chng.it/s9fTpcmgD2

Exclusive: Harvard publisher cancels entire journal issue on Palestine shortly before publication. My latest. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

There is something deeply ironic in the Lords debate on the Universal Credit bill #UCBill being preceded by the debate over who gets to own the Telegraph. But when it gets to it, you can see it here: parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/86

Coming up on 6th August, free, for charity sector professionals: Bullying at work: What to do if you are on the receiving end Date: 6 aug • 11:00 www.eventbrite.com/e/bullying-a...

Those suspended or demoted are all that Labour MPs should be. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Very honored to have given this Rising Star interview, where I could talk a bit about myself, my research, my passion for microscopy, and my dream to help find a cure for #LongCovid one day 💔 Link for the full interview: short-link.me/123uR Press release: www.eurekalert.org/news-release...

@bsky.app Please can you consider an edit button that allows changes for one minute after posting. This will allow better quality tweets from those of us who suffer from fatigue/dyslexia. This should be an adaption. If it locks down after a minute it protects the integrity of the post.

The more we discover, the worse it gets. Now we learn the water companies wrote the guidance ensuring sewage sludge is not tested for the vast majority of contaminants before being spread on farmland. They gave themselves a free licence to dump hazardous waste. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

Don't give up. ❤️‍🩹 We are very much not done.

So there we have it, the #UCBill passed, just losing the #PIP part, but with no meaningful amendment to protect #UniversalCredit claimants including LCWRA group too disabled to work. That's £2.1bn cuts by the end of the decade from 750,000 people, and that's all that this bill is for.

Thank you @rachaelmaskell.bsky.social for amendment 38 to #UCBill to protect UC health payments for LCWRA with remitting/relapsing health conditions. I am sorry it didn't pass, and that there wasn't the moral courage and the ethics to pass it. But thank you for trying and for your speech today. 💜🙏

Thank you @johnmcdonnellmp.bsky.social for your NC8 amendment to #UCBill. It didn't pass. What caused more than 400 MPs to object to the government having to publish the outcome of the review into PIP assessment and to have the right to scrutinise it? They've just removed that right from themselves?

Stephen Timms: despite removing Clause 5 (PIP reforms) from the #UCBill DWP will "get on with more face to face assessments" as "should have been done after the pandemic". Has Stephen Timms decided this without consulting disabled people's groups? @longcovidsupport.bsky.social @cvcev.bsky.social

Thank you @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social for asking for co-production on #UCHealth as there is now meant to be on #PIP. S. Timms replies this would be "considered" after the PIP review concludes. That's not until late 2026, but UC health is being cut for 2026claimants from 2026. There isn't time?

Thank you @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social for saying what needs to be said, the UC Bill needs to be scrapped. "It's a sadistically cruel cost cutting exercise." There's been no consultation, nothing in the bill except punitive cuts to disabled, no support, just discrimination. #BinTheBill

"The government needs to stop making policy about #disabled people without them" @adamjamesdance.bsky.social 👏👏👏 #BinUCBill

Why trust science? One answer to that question is because good scientists stick to certain ethical norms as they do their research and publish their results 🧪

❗️Severe Conditional Criteria (SCC) in the #UCBill protects very few: it excludes fluctuating symptoms and relies on diagnosis in NHS provision that might not be there. Most people too disabled to work face UC cuts. Please vote for amendments 17, 44 by @graemedowniemp.bsky.social and 33 to fix this ❗️

Last minute push to write to your MP before tonight's vote on the #UCBill You can use the letter here dpac.uk.net/2025/07/urge... and send it via Write to Them www.writetothem.com Or quickly generate and send your letter here: takingthepip.co.uk/write-to-you... #BInUCBill #TakingThePIP

UK Govt snuck out an impact assessment last night showing £2.1 bn cuts to Universal Credit health, with 750,000 claimants to lose £3,000 a year on average by 2029/30. via @richardburgon.bsky.social The Severe Conditions Criteria (SCC) and SREL (terminal illness) are limited, protect barely 1 in 10.

Uk Government's #WelfareReforms breach international law, according to expert legal opinion by Jamie Burton KC, Doughty Street Chambers, commissioned by Equity @equityuk.bsky.social www.equity.org.uk/news/2025/we... Full legal opinion www.equity.org.uk/media/254d4q...

Thinking of those lost in the past months, to exacerbated illness and to loss of hope. Of the tears that weren't splashed across the front pages. Please don't ever give up hope. You are not alone ❤️‍🩹💚 There are many of us, holding each other up, we have your back. We'll see this through. #BinUCBill

📢 Key point on #UCBill, especially for #Labour MPs👇 The #RightToTry - the right to try work without losing benefits *already exists*. It isn't a new provision, it isn't created by this bill, it'll be there if you #BinTheBill. Nothing in the Bill incentivises work. It's all about cuts.✂️ #TakingThePIP