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

Today on the Hall of Shame is Par McFadden who is a supporter of the cuts to disability benefits. He believes too many disabled people claim sickness and disability benefits, which he says is unsustainable and believes disabled people claiming the benefits they need are dependent on them.

As a disabled person, I’ve watched helplessly was govts punch down on disabled people. My mistake was thinking I was helpless. A butterfly flapping its wings in one part of the world can hypothetically trigger a hurricane in another. We are not powerless. #takingthepip #DisabilityRebellion

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.

Let’s get this to 22K!! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/72...

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...

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.

“6.3million people in poverty were in a family with disabled family member - close to half of all people in poverty. 88% of low-income families in receipt of disability benefits went without essentials in the 6 months to october 2024.” -JRF #DisabilityRebellion #MayDay #TaxTheRich #WelfareNotWarfare

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

We live in a country where this didn’t make the press.

“It’s as if the economy is an angry volcano god that demands constant ritual sacrifices of poor & disabled people.” #DisabilityBenefits #PIP What Disability Benefit Cuts Reveal About Labour’s Grasp of Economics - @mcduff.bsky.social novaramedia.com/2025/03/20/w...

A Labour minister – sister of chancellor Rachel Reeves – is facing difficult questions after an ombudsman linked a constituent’s suicide with the flawed personal independence payment system, just as her sister announced £4.5 bn cuts to #PIP spending.

The death of another PIP claimant – also linked to the review process – led to warnings of the harm to come if the government goes ahead with its planned cuts. CC: @teamlabouruk.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-man...

8.8 million people in the UK experience anxiety or depression each week. Just 361,000 get PIP for it. PIP isn’t for the ‘worried well’—it’s for those with serious, disabling illness. Labour knows this. They’re counting on the public not to. #WelfareNotWarfare #DisabilityBenefits

So many want to believe all the sickness is caused by lockdown and immunity debt. Neither theory stands up to any scrutiny whatsoever if you care to look deeper. 1. Not every country had a lockdown, Sweden wasn’t in a lockdown. 2. All essential workers stayed in work. 3. SEN schools returned early

‘What was their crime?’ Families tell of shock over IDF killing of Gaza paramedics

Phone footage appears to contradict Israeli account of killing of Gaza paramedics

Even if there were enough jobs out there for the disabled folk who can work (there aren't) there aren't enough employers who are inclusive. The Disability Confident scheme is a sham, and there's almost no legal recourse as long as the employer is careful with how they do things

We absolutely know that current failures with PIP cost lives. Now this government wants to make the situation even worse. Labour's cuts won't just prevent more disabled people from working, they will inevitably lead to more deaths, and they know it. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/pip-review-f...

What’s LCWRA? It’s a part of Universal Credit for people who are medically assessed as unable to work. Labour plans to: – Cut support by 50% for new claimants – Reassess existing ones That means more fear, more poverty, more harm. This one is going to court. We won’t allow it.

Penguin has partnered with a bunch of disabled-led brands to give away signed copies of my new book, Who Wants Normal? I’ll be sharing them all over on Instagram (frances.ryan85) in the coming days. Today, Neo Walksticks is giving away a (v chic) cane. A free book and a cane!

🚨1/3. Birmingham & Solihull NHS #LongCovid clinic has been informed by their ICB that it might be closed. They’ve apparently been given until 7th April to justify their existence. Is this is your clinic? If so, contact the ICB & tell them why it should remain open! Contact info. below. ⬇️

Did you know: our researchers have developed a suite of resources for A-Level students and teachers? "History & Philosophy of Science in 20 Objects" draws on an incredible array of items from our own collection ft. prompts, questions, videos and more! sway.cloud.microsoft/cEekCFBF5CGF... #histsci

Please ignore tired pieces in publications like the Atlantic that are still trying to stigmatize mask wearing. Wearing a mask to prevent sickness from airborne viruses is a science-informed position, and it has been that way for over 100 years.

⬇️ Must-read interview with Dr. Špela Šalamon, MD, a physician and biomedical scientist specializing in the genetics of complex and degenerative diseases. “Organ and vascular damage without obvious symptoms…affects more than 50% of those infected.” whn.global/five-years-o...

Israel killed 15 aid workers in Gaza, shot some in the head and chest, bound their hands, and buried them under sand in Rafah. This was a massacre. 📌 Read the full story:

Disability benefits are generous in the UK, are they? This week: PIP daily living rose by £1.25 (standard) or £1.85 (enhanced). That’s 1.7%. Today: energy bills rose 6.4%. That’s not generosity. It’s abandonment. #DisabilityBenefits #WelfareNotWorkfare

Your bills are going up because this government would rather protect the profits of a few corporations than the livelihoods of millions of ordinary people. End this outrageous rip-off, and take water and energy into public ownership now.

“Covid is only a risk to the vulnerable”. The comfortable lie that allowed most of the world to rush back to normal. To ignore a global pandemic that’s killing and disabling millions. Tossing the “vulnerable” aside for comfort paved the way for fascism. Wear a mask. Stand with disabled people.