Well here we go again and in spite of myself, I have hope - come on Scotland!!

Beginning to actually feel sorry for Ireland, the team that humiliates us yearly, that’s how bad this is

Edinburgh rugby, what is happening right now? where has this come from?

That is the best try Edinburgh have ever or will ever score Andrea!!

Perpignan finally won a game! "Carried by an immense Jamie Ritchie" with a "captain's performance"! Made up for him

Celtic nations coming together with the Lions

I’m sorry, the DWP announcing “don’t worry, the benefits u-turn means only 150,000 people will be pushed into poverty now!” is just insane. Cruel, incompetent ghouls who shouldn’t be allowed to run a bath let alone a system sick people rely on to live.

Keir Starmer's revised welfare cuts will put 150,000 more people into poverty, according to the Government's own analysis. Only down 100,000 from the 250,000 previously estimated

Private Eye has found that that 281,000 PIP claimants *already in paid work* stand to lose out under the proposed cuts (i.e the four-point rule) That's 55% of all PIP claimants in paid work, according to the article (not my article but I want to flag it)

@rosbifsrugby.bsky.social Theo with a late bid for own-try of the season there sadly

NEW: Internal DWP figures show 700,000 families *already* in poverty are forecast to be hit by planned disability benefit cuts That's on top of the 250k+ who are predicted to be newly pushed into poverty by the changes By me, for the Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

New: Roughly 1,325,250 people (45.8%) of PIP Daily Living component recipients will lose their benefit if the #GreenPaper proposals progress. The average annual loss would be c.£4,000, with many losing all support despite significant functional impairments. (FOI: 👏 Martin Bonner) #WelfareNotWarfare

The scale of this is grotesque, but underneath the big numbers we need to remember the devastating personal impact on everyone affected. None of this is necessary. All of it is happening because Labour refuses to tax wealth fairly.

Disability benefits: soothing words, frightening numbers New column attempting to cut through the spin www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/politics/pol...

The Guardian view of Labour’s cruellest trick: selling welfare cuts as compassion | Editorial

“Every time you see a headline on “the cost of the benefits bill”, what you are really reading is “the cost of disabled people”.  My col. on Labour’s reported benefit cuts and the toxic narrative of the “moral” virtue of work. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Cutting benefits payments *specifically* for people deemed unable to work due to illness or disability is a genuinely shocking choice from Labour. Aside from the incredibly obvious moral horror of it, it shows how our economy is set up all wrong. #r4today

NEW: Labour has given its strongest signal yet that it will *keep* the Tories' planned disability benefit cuts, as it said it would re-run the consultation that was earlier today judged to have been held unlawfully The cuts would hit c450,000 disabled people by 2029 www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

This is absolutely huge from the Scottish Parliament. Combined with the Scottish Child Payment it means a family with 3 children on Universal Credit will be *£7k* per year better off than if they lived in England. And we know that will make a massive difference www.dailyrecord.co.uk/news/politic...