Biggest threat to trauma therapy in the UK right now? PIP cuts & tighter rules. Tens of thousands with PTSD/CPTSD rely on PIP to fund private therapy — NHS waits are years long. Respond to the Timms Review consultation by 28 May or many will lose access. tinyurl.com/mrk8hy4m

This is really bad advice on so many levels….

If you can, please say hello to the security guard at your local supermarket. There's a new one at mine who smiles so sweetly and looks genuinely pleased to see everyone. The last one did too -before month on month of being barely acknowledged in the inhumane modern workplace wore him into despair.

The National Front & BNP never went away. They just rebranded, mainstream parties pandered more & more to racists & the Far Right, & eventually their narrative became normalised & somehow acceptable metro.co.uk/2026/05/24/r...

🚨Clinicians - The PIP Review closes on Thursday. We must improve PIP and protect existing rights after fifteen years of relentless attacks on disabled people. Fill in the form: tinyurl.com/5f4xfe5w Email: [email protected] Sign the professional letter: tinyurl.com/37nrsmxx

Still remember the crushing moment as a young researcher when I realised that proving something through evidence had damn near no impact on social policy unless it was politically useful to believe it.

Alan Milburn - the man responsible for privatising large parts of the NHS before accepting loads of money to be an advisor for a private health care provider - has always been a vile piece of crap

Villainising and attacking minority groups, has never, and must never be acceped. For those of us who remember how all gay men were branded as were a danger to society during the 1980's AIDS crisis, you must know this.

EHRC are a joke www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

SEND reforms offer only cuts and dismantling of rights, disabled people’s organisation tells ministers www.disabilitynewsservice.com/send-reforms...

Transport Secretary doesn’t know people with ADHD don’t automatically qualify for a blue badge. Not that it stops her stirring up hate against disabled people, as that where Labour are right now www.lbc.co.uk/article/adhd...

The DWP are absolute bastards - punishing people who have more than very basic savings - a limit they haven’t raised in 20 years - whilst berating people for not having sufficient savings

While the Labour government has decided to cut NHS staff recruitment to below the Tory government's target and replace doctors with AI... www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... A blind 74-year-old woman died after 27 hours in A&E lying half the time on a trolley, then on soiled sheets in a cramped cubicle.

Get people off sickness benefits by making it impossible to prove you’re ill - genius! www.ft.com/content/9077...

Reform UK's candidate for Makerfield, Rober Kenyon, has "mothballed" his Facebook account in the past few days and deleted all of his friends. This because of his friends was Gary Raikes, leader of the New British Union, the self-styled successor organisation to Moseley's British Union of Fascists.

AI ‘deadbots’ can fuel pathological grief and affect how we deal with death

After new information through FOI that yet another Trust has stopped using Oxevision, we can now reveal that just 19 out of the 50 mental health Trusts are still using the system - well below the 50% that Oxehealth (now LIO) once boasted!

#PIP #TUC The Government has tried to cut PIP, and is now looking at changing it. We think the government's review will be unfair and it will punish disabled people who can't work. DPAC is unhappy with the TUC's response to the review. dpac.uk.net/2026/05/dpac...

“Understaffing and the increasingly complex medical needs posed by an ageing population are creating a “deadly mix” for patients, the Royal College of Nursing warned on Monday.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Executions in 2025 soared to the highest figure recorded by Amnesty International since 1981 – and a small, isolated group of states were responsible. A world without the death penalty is possible. And we won't stop fighting until we abolish it. Read on: amn.st/63321BBNjkF

This is a failed society www.readingchronicle.co.uk/news/2610143...

The UK and 45 other countries just agreed a deal to send people to camps, including in Rwanda, overturning the one thing less hostile than the Conservatives on asylum, where they are likely to be trapped indefinitely, or sent to countries they are at risk in. www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...

www.nsun.org.uk/when-lived-e... Interesting blog via @nsunnews.bsky.social

“It means that any new legislation on welfare will not even be introduced to Parliament until mid-2027 at the earliest…” www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There are just a few spaces left to join tomorrow's event on Madness and Palestinian Liberation. We'll be exploring what solidarity looks like between Mad, Disabled, and Palestinian movements and building campaign goals. Online, 4pm, sign up below. www.nsun.org.uk/news/madness...

The Daily Star have bought another lettuce 👀

I think it’s fair to say that a “rally against antisemitism” that invites Farage to speak but excludes Zack Polanski isn’t really a rally against antisemitism at all.

I am seeing a lot of the 'Reform won't be competent' argument coming up. Reform are a 'post competence party'. They exist in a world where neoliberalism has told people politics can't work, and won't. They won't be assessed on competence. Their voters don't expect them to be. /1

This is where we are now…. www.liverpoolecho.co.uk/news/liverpo...

Labour ministers secretly imposed Access to Work cut last year, #DWP update quietly reveals #AccessToWork www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labour-minis...

MILLIONS of people in the UK are skipping meals, sitting in dark and damp houses, going without essentials. But it doesn't have to be this way. Ending hunger is a political choice.

🏳️‍⚧️Today is Trans+ History Day, 6 May We mark this day because of what happened – and what was nearly erased. On this date in 1933, Nazis raided the world's first Trans+ clinic. Days later, over 20,000 books from its archive were burned in the street.

The sad fact is that the vast majority of current Labour MPs are far more relaxed about the prospect of a Reform government building concentration camps across the country than they are about the prospect of a Green Party government with progressive policies.

Slavery in the UK "could become even worse with AI being used to scale up and professionalise exploitation" The government's response? Invest more public funds in technologies of exploitation, surveillance and policing.

Just as Tories and Reform attack disabled benefit claimants, Labour’s ‘landmark’ ‘right to try’ policy for sick and disabled people is also shown to be an utter disgrace. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-land... Via @johnpring.bsky.social

That setting up concentration camps in the areas of those who don’t support you is being seen as a vote-winner shows how far we have fallen in this country.

Recovery in the Bin did a blog on that very issue recoveryinthebin.org?s=Panopticon

The #DWP knows surveillance damages mental health. It must want to put people off seeking support. Forcing them to deal with AI chatbots and AI claims processing isn't enough. Live streaming and covert cameras’ – DWP seeks £2m suppliers for surveillance tech: www.publictechnology.net/2026/04/30/s...

For the record, Tommy Robinson's relationship to the Met Police goes back a long way. He seems to spend half his time in a cell

Labour’s ‘landmark’ rules on ‘right to try’ are ‘worthless’ and ‘empty’, DWP’s own guidance shows #RightToTry #DWP @ritb.bsky.social www.disabilitynewsservice.com/labours-land...

“In fact, the tribunal had identified entirely the wrong shop on Google Maps and, because they kept their research secret, the claimant was not able to point this out to them.” www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/tribuna...

Disabled people in the U.K. are facing harassment from the public for using a Blue Badge. Many said they have been verbally abused for “faking”, with some being filmed on phones, physically intimidated, or having their mobility aid pulled away. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/world/2026/a...

A NHS Trust was ordered to pay compensation to a patient over use of Oxevision (LIO) - what does this mean for other Trusts? What does the guidance from NHS England and CQC say about its use? Plus, read our letter to NHSE asking them to take action stopoxevision.com/2026/04/29/t...

Something to look forward to… www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Check your Sertraline if you're on it in the UK www.gov.uk/government/n...

There is a lack of nuance in conversations on social media, mental health, and the online world. Following the Government's proposed social media ban for under 16s, we are capturing views on mental health and the online world to inform our campaigning strategies. www.nsun.org.uk/news/have-yo...

Ofcom even refused to take action over a TV show in which some young people on disability benefits were described as “parasites”. www.disabilitynewsservice.com/ofcom-has-fa... Take action: stopfundinghate.info/get-involved...

DWP has told decision makers that they should look at the type of work claimants start in order to decide whether to subject them to a work capability assessment and/or personal independence payment (PIP) review.

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Absolutely, when I was on a ward 3 years ago, no one told me about it or asked for my consent. The first hospital had no info about it at all. The second one had a poster on a bulletin board and that’s how I found out.