Despite how difficult and dark things can sometimes feel at the moment, we would like to wish everyone here a Happy New Year & all the very best for 2026. Thank you for being here & for being who you are. Lots of love from everyone at RiTB

Whether directly or indirectly, inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric harms us all

Abolish the DWP www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...

The idea that AI can “detoxify” people reframes emotional overwhelm as a software problem, and it treats loneliness and strain as things to route into a machine rather than conditions that require support, care, and structural repair. 1/*

“Days after the publication of the review, the DWP’s top civil servant in charge of carers’ allowance, Neil Couling, said carers themselves were at fault for the decade-long failures.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

My favourite thing about this post is a for-profit company likening their surveillance tech to the invention of stethoscopes or safety equipment in Formula 1 cars. "Over time, the radical becomes reasonable", they say. 1/2

So the Government: Cuts disability benefits. Cuts practical support at work (the ‘access to work scheme’). Reduces targets for accessible homes. And now dismisses calls to improve wheelchair services. www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...

Many Majestic Wine customers will be disappointed to see their comments about their advertising with GB News. Supporting free speech - a basic human right that we all deserve - doesn't entail any obligation to fund media that fuel division & to imply otherwise would be misleading... /1

In a crowded field, Richard Tice is one of the most vile politicians in this country www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence

It is shocking that people have been pushed to take such serious action just to be heard. These events did not happen by accident. They are the result of the government misusing anti-terror laws.

Lammy’s just going to let those hunger strikers die isn’t he?

All the talk about diagnosis is a convenient way for politicians to avoid addressing the real structural issues which need dealing with, in order to address the mental health of the nation.

True that…. theconversation.com/what-looks-l...

Patients who experience a sudden dental crisis such as a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain are meant to be able to get help from their dentist or by calling NHS 111…research by Healthwatch England shows…people in pain are unable to get an appointment www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.

The abuse of mental health patients has been standard practice in psychiatric settings for decades now. It will only stop when someone in a position to do something about it takes it seriously & considers all patients in whatever settings as worthy of care & compassion www.bbc.com/news/article...

Impunity is an enabler of criminality. And again, I suggest that we spend some time reflecting on the radicalising effect it must have on British politicians to be so deeply and directly complicit in such monstrous, racist crimes. These people have crossed a threshold into a truly dark place.

The work&pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support,3 days after launching a child povertystrategy which warned that more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”.” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...

“…the report shows how the top 10% own 75% of all global wealth…the ultra-rich 0.001% control three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...

Elon Musk has been posting similar recently. It’s increasingly clear that the endgame for these wealth-hoarding psychopaths is a wordwide fascist oligarchy where dissent isn’t tolerated and freedom of speech only extends to agreeing with them. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...

As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist

Critics of disability benefits largely frame it as a concern for government spending but beneath it, there’s often a clear prejudice: disabled people should have miserable little lives (unlike hardworking, normal people).

Boris Johnson regrets that so many disabled people managed to survive his Covid response.

Some holiday reading (PDF is free ,book is a gift idea) Access to Social Justice Effective Remedies for Social Rights Authors: Katie Boyle, Diana Camps, Kirstie Ken English, Jo Edson Ferrie, Aidan Flegg, and Gaurav Mukherjee bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...

“The poorest people in England are being denied access to social housing owing to their low income, in a “catch-22” situation that is pushing more people into homelessness, research has found.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

Strange to think that there was a time when people thought it a good thing to have a human rights lawyer as Prime Minister. Seems he just wanted to take them away all along. www.theguardian.com/law/2025/dec...

The real benefits scam is that people who are working full-time can’t afford to live, so need Universal Credit to top up their poverty wages… All whilst the companies employing them make billions in profit.

Keir Starmer - "I’ve always wanted a Labour government but I’ve never worried about the future of our country under a Tory government." The words of a man so insulated from the harm done by the Tories he felt no compulsion not to continue the harm not being done to him and his.

“Fears have been raised that the extraordinarily quick turnaround time is needed to allow the review to influence the outcome of the Timms personal independence payment (PIP) review.” www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/high-sp...

ICYMI: Our community of food banks provided 739,000 emergency food parcels last winter alone. That’s 40% more than 5 years ago.

What fresh Hell is this? www.forbes.com/sites/zakdof...

Sarah Jones, the policing minister, has described the technology as the “biggest breakthrough since DNA matching” www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

#BankServeillance The DWP bank Spying Bill is now law. Read the blog from @disrightsuk.bsky.social on the concerns around this terrible bill and the devastating impacts www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/dwp-pla...

We got into trouble for calling this out on Twitter. The vile owner of that site wants normalise disgusting language for fellow fascists, but also has recently called for people calling someone a fascist to be considered as incitement to murder, which would lead to a lengthy jail sentence…

www.bbc.com/news/article... Recent research by @hspandler.bsky.social (Professor of Mental Health), a leading historian of Psychiatry and LGBT+ health, suggests that [aversion therapy through electroshock] was far more widespread than previously documented

Our evidence is clear – families are struggling because they don’t have enough money to live on. Right now, over 2.5 MILLION children in the UK are growing up in families facing hunger and more than a million families were forced to food banks last year.

Forcing people too unwell to work into work then denying them any support is particularly cruel, a Catch 22 situation deliberately designed to cause desperation & that will destroy lives www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Facial recognition technology = mass human rights violations. Again and again, this technology has been proven to be discriminatory against racialised communities. Make no mistake: this is a decision to further entrench racism within policing.

“In the survey, 74 per cent of disabled people said they had been accused of “faking” their impairments while using their blue badges.” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/years-of-sca...

Getting rid of juries, the right to appeal, the right to protest, facial recognition everywhere, DWP access to bank accounts… This is the kind of “change” Starmer thinks people voted for… bylinetimes.com/2025/12/03/d...

Considering Streeting's well stated belief autism, ADHD etc, along with mental health issues, are "overdiagnosed", I won't hold my breath for this doing anything other than being used to cut support, along with opportunities for diagnosis, for people who need it. #r4today www.bbc.com/news/article...

All the billionaires, tax evaders, offshorers and fascists are backing Farage

Who remembers this review being announced 3 months ago? www.disabilitynewsservice.com/alarm-over-g...

More authoritarianism from an authoritarian government www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim...

Important information here….. www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/avoidin...

Hey @mind.org.uk and @autisticsociety.bsky.social - why are you quoted in here as welcoming this? How is this likely to help people with mental health issues, autism or ADHD when it’s clearly about saving money and cutting off people’s benefits? www.bbc.com/news/article...

Make no mistake: this isn’t being done in good faith - it’s purely about saving money and moving the goalposts to save money. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

“Disabled people faced a higher cost of living before the pandemic, and were often disregarded in Government decision making. This not only continued, but got worse during the pandemic.” www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/governm...