Emails that targeted a leading disabled activist have exposed a “rotten culture” at senior levels of the rail industry. #RailDeliveryGroup www.disabilitynewsservice.com/disabled-act...

Our Brass Neck of the Week Award goes to…. www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

A special Hall of Shame tonight for all the hate spreading, misinformed and ableist trolls.

Secret DWP training shows the savagery of universal credit health regime to be unleashed in April. Claimants with the most severe physical and mental health conditions receive only the lower rate because of a possibility that their condition may improve, even if not for over a decade

ICE using the same ruse that Ted Bundy used to kidnap people should tell you something.

A local authority has admitted discriminating against a disabled couple who were left with a significant new council tax bill after they were forced to move onto universal credit. #UniversalCredit #CouncilTax #DWP www.disabilitynewsservice.com/council-admi...

One in five staff employed by contractors who carry out disability benefit assessments on the government’s behalf have not had vital safeguarding training, MPs have been told, despite years of deaths and serious harm linked to the tests. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/one-in-five-...

DWP slammed by MPs for demonising claimants as 'fraudsters' A committee of MPs has laid into the DWP over its propaganda around benefit fraud - when it's the department that's the problem

The DWP shared figures that show the WCA will still be going strong in 2031 - despite previously claiming it'll be abolished by 2029. This once again shows how much of a farce the Timms Review is Me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

On the Hall of Shame today we have Nimbus Disability - They claim to have neurodiverse team members yet they and the companies they work with are openely discriminating against people with invisible disabilities.

On the Hall of Fame today we have @RachelCDailey_ for being an amazing person all round and a fantastic disability rights advocate

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

A further £609 million, 31%, will come from increasing the number of WCA reassessments. This saving presumably comes from removing the UC health element (LCWRA) from more claimants. www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/wca-sti...

🚨Opinion: The Government Intentionally Left Disabled People to Suffer Financially During the Pandemic Ewura-Ama Quarshie shares her perspective on how Module 9 of the Covid Inquiry exposed hard truths about Disabled people’s financial situation 👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/opinion...

Examples still coming in of dodgy ways people are getting bumped off NHS waiting lists to make Wes look good - all variations on “here’s a difficult hoop you need to jump through simply to stay on the waiting list you’ve been on a few months” bsky.app/profile/guyb...

Hunger in the UK isn’t a personal failure. Its a systemic failure - one that is entirely fixable.

The owners of Alton Towers are a bunch of bastards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

“The government’s most senior welfare official has been accused of presiding over a “culture of complacency” that led to thousands of unpaid carers inadvertently running up huge benefit debts” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

so hang on a minute, the UK (significantly, erm, “represented“ in negotiations by Mandelson) has just signed a trade deal with the US that gives into their demands for NHS to pay way more for medicines…. & yet Streeting won’t even tell us the barest details? 🤯 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“Creepy, unsafe and spying” This report is written to accompany our complaint to Oxford Health. We are asking questions as to whether personal connections and vested interests may have influenced decisions pertaining to the technology stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/c...

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

DWP insults disabled people with steering group for Timms Review www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

My full PhD thesis on disabled people's encounters with strangers in accessible #BlueBadge parking spaces is now publicly available: etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/17... TLDR? Here's the summary report instead: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmfK... #DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...

Fancy applying for and getting a job as an absolute bastard and then leaving because you feel despised 😭 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

I wrote last year about the growing movement against empathy from both the Christian nationalist right and the Elon Musk/techno-pseudoscientific right I called it an attack on “our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering” and “a flashing red light warning of fascist intent”

Nobody should have to perform wellness to be treated with dignity. #DisabilityRights #EmotionalLabour #MaskingIsExhausting #TheBarriersYouDontSee

The forced abductions of Liam Conejo Ramos and other children are deeply reminiscent of the forcible abduction of Indigenous children in the 19th century.

Our lead analyst Joseph Elliott takes you through the interactive Data Dashboard, launched for the first time this year alongside #UKPoverty2026 🔽

At NSUN, our policy work in 2025 was dominated by the fight against cruel and dangerous proposals for welfare reform. In this briefing we share a recap of what happened last year, look at what the government is doing next and establish our positioning and plans. www.nsun.org.uk/news/policy-...

A brilliant resource to become a better ally 🩷🤍💙 Download it now! www.wearequeeraf.com/dotheworkbook/

"it was only when an adviser came to her home to do a comprehensive benefits check that their life was turned around." #PeopleNeedPeople #TechAbleism

Vulnerable people are missing out on benefits because they are being directed to online calculators they cannot use www.bbc.com/news/article...

Lifting the two child cap will only reduce poverty by 1% come 2029 By me for @thecanaryuk.bsky.social www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

I'm fully aware that my twitter account is now dming people THIS IS A SCAM DONT CLICK NOWT. Currently fighting with twitter to get my account back so i can fucking deactivate it

Just to let everyone know, I've had my twitter hacked and I've been locked out. Looks like someone finally made the decision to leave the hellsite for me. If you see anyone asking within the disabled community please share this post with them.

Solidarity with @rachelcdailey.bsky.social whose longstanding Twitter /X account has been hacked. A brilliant activist who is clearly being targeted by the kinds of people we’re all here fighting against. Those who hate disabled people, & thrive on spreading hatred & division, will not win.

DWP kills another

Philip Glass is never wrong about anything www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...

Just a reminder that the Bedroom Tax is still in force. Labour has had 18 months of power and have made no move to end it. 'In 2019, the European Court of Human Rights ruled the bedroom tax discriminatory and incompatible with Article 14 in conjunction with Article 1 Protocol 1 of the ECHR'

America is a fascist state www.thecanary.co/global/world...

Poverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.

“[The report] noted that in 2023/24, 6.8 million people - almost half of all of those in poverty - were considered to be in "very deep poverty".” news.sky.com/story/number...

Well here's a question to ask Mr Macfadden MP.

“Earlier, in an official statement it now says was “sent out in error”, the party said: “It was always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect. The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...