Great to see the findings from this much-needed project out today, and to be able to work with these wonderful folks! @agatataga.bsky.social, @mindtheflap.bsky.social @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social

Embracing Complexity's priority-setting exercise for research on neurodivergence is now published in Neurodiversity! Huge project led by @agatataga.bsky.social, paper co-written by @drrachaeldavis.bsky.social, @drhollyjoseph.bsky.social, and yours truly: journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

This should be treated as terrorism. Two people fortunately managed to escape, otherwise it would have killed them. The different in response is stark. BBC News - Mosque fire being treated as arson and hate crime www.bbc.com/news/article...

Six weeks ago, I picked up a year-old tawny owl with a broken leg off the main road near our home and dropped him off at our nearest vet. After a few days, I received one of the most bizarre phone calls I’ve ever had, asking “So when are you coming to pick up your owl?” 🧵

When he was running to be Labour leader Keir Starmers campaign video boasted that he had stood up for protesters when the full force of the state was against them. Today his govt is arresting a disabled blind man for holding a placard.

The DWP gave nearly £250 million to private companies in June alone Over £40 million of this mind-blowing amount was spent on notorious DWP health and Work Capability assessments - where these private companies routinely abuse disabled people www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Never forget.

NOW: The High Court is hearing a case to challenge the government's decision to ban Palestine Action under anti-terror laws. 🧵 Thread of updates from inside court:

In today's case seeking leave to judicially review the ban on Palestine Action, a judge has said the Kent case with the woman with a flag was an “officer that doesn’t understand the law” and “there will be cases where the police get things wrong” But armed. And threatening a terrorism arrest 🤔

The term "Genuinely disabled" is an ableist dogwhistle. All disabled people are "genuinely disabled".

DWP plans to force disabled people into work will now see GPs send you to job coaches Meet the DWP-backed "WorkWell" - where doctors will send chronically ill and disabled people to job coaches to try and coerce them back to work  www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

Yesterday, the Government rushed through the newly titled Universal Credit Bill – enacting their planned cuts to Universal Credit for new claimants from 2026/7. The Bill will now progress to the House of Lords, where it will face reduced scrutiny. We are devastated 🧵(1/4).

I know many people are feeling suicidal tonight because the government has failed to hear us. It is a gut punch—but also not the time to do anything you can’t reverse. Nothing will change for you if you are on disability benefits from this Bill. You matter and we care about you. #BinUCBill

The DWP is now going to refuse disabled people's diagnoses if they got them privately The DWP are headed for another cataclysmic disaster, just as one NHS board turns away all adults over 25 seeking treatment for ADHD www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

This week, someone in a position of power over me, told me with a straight face that creating components for weapons ripping children’s bodies into pieces is ethically a “grey area” and today 25 people were arrested for holding “I Oppose Genocide” sign

The Government's concessions completely ignore the thousands of Disabled people on Universal Credit with LCWRA. They are still proposing this be slashed from £416 to just over £200. This bill cannot be salvaged by concessions - it must be scrapped.

🚨BREAKING: MPs have just voted for cuts to social security - with unwritten promises from the UK Government This is reckless. Disability rights aren’t optional. Poverty is a political choice. This Govt chose it tonight. We'll keep fighting until this cruel Bill is rejected completely.

A CrowdJustice appeal to fight the proscription of Palestine Action has received pledges of £120K (all funds will go directly to their solicitors, Birnberg Peirce) www.crowdjustice.com/case/palesti...

We should all be concerned about plans to proscribe Palestine Action as a terrorist group. Targeting non-violent protesters in this way is a misuse of terrorism-related powers. It sets a dangerous precedent, which governments in future could further use against their critics.

🚨BREAKING: We’re deeply concerned at the use of counter terrorism powers to target protest groups. This is the latest in a succession of measures taken by the UK government to clamp down on protest in the UK.

It's wild to me is so few people who are not Disabled include Disability in their politics at all. Current proposed cuts are based on 3 baseless zombie ideas 1. There is somehow a 'correct' amount of Disabled people who need support 2. Disability can be precisely measured 3. Spending is too high

I’ve set up a Go Fund Me campaign for my friend Majd and his family in Gaza. Majd is 25 years old, and he is a humanitarian worker with the Civil Defense in Gaza. He and his family are experiencing extremely difficult conditions. Please donate or share the campaign: gofund.me/f5865d64

Would you like some support preparing your response to the Government’s Pathways to Work consultation? Join us on June 4th to connect with other NSUN members, discuss proposed changes to Disability benefits, and access support to respond to the consultation. www.nsun.org.uk/news/members...

Jonathan Reynolds says the situation in Gaza is appalling The UK govt refuses to impose sanctions on Israel & refuses to stop exporting arms & providing military assistance to them. The UK govt is a partner in Israels war crimes. And that includes Reynolds.

📣 The government is spying on children. Yes, really. Under the "Prevent" duty, children in schools are being reported to counter-terror police, instead of being supported. This needs to stop. Help us to scrap the “Prevent” duty: amnesty.org.uk/actions/scra...

"We were sleeping and the houses were full of children, women and displaced people... at 1.30 am & without prior warning they bombed a house. Many children and women were killed & their bodies scattered in the street" Palestinians in Gaza on Israels overnight attacks.

Today! UK govt in court for its continued arms exports to Israel

The government is yet to respond to our call for a public inquiry into the UK’s involvement in the war on Gaza. This shocking report could explain why. When will the government come clean about the reality of arms exports to Israel?

A world historical crime, taking place in full view, with the perpetrators so convinced of their impunity that they can brag about genocidal intent, and it’s hard not to agree with their calculation that no one will stop them and no one will be held accountable

#PIP @hackneyabbott.bsky.social has secured a Westminster Hall debate on PIP and disabled people On 07.05.2025 2.30 pm to 4.30pm Please use the template letter in the link provided to contact your MP & ask them to attend this important debate Link here dpac.uk.net/2025/05/urge...

Surreal that these pieces somehow manage to not even mention the pandemic that has left many millions chronically ill

🚨 BREAKING: The government has just been DEFEATED in an appeals court, ruling that key parts of the government's limit on protests are 'UNLAWFUL' @libertyhq 👏👏

Nigel Farage and his political class are against mental health and disability diagnoses largely because, in many cases at least, these diagnoses give access to disability rights and make it harder to justify exploiting workers so ruthlessly.

"An Israeli attack on [a] freed Palestinian prisoner killed him, his wife & 4 children... the blast was so violent paramedics were unable to recover a single body from the family of 6, but were left to collect shredded flesh and body parts from the street outside the residence"

Israel has murdered at least 24 people in Gaza so far today.

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.

There’s always enough money for killing people, somehow…..

Three disabled people who lost relatives as a result of past reforms to disability benefits have spoken of their horror at the Labour government’s plans to cut billions of pounds from the system.

It's World Down's Syndrome Day - but under Labour, there is nothing to celebrate for us and Betsy Rachel Curtis is terrified for her daughter's future after what Labour announced this week. Is this Keir Starmer's legacy? Exclusion, sickness. poverty? www.thecanary.co/opinion/2025...

Someone in a response to me earlier referred to themselves as 'just' a carer. There is no such thing as 'just' a carer 💜x

Cutting the #PIP thresholds won’t REDUCE disability, it will INCREASE it. Why? ❌ People will lose essential care, mobility aids & support. ❌ Poverty, stress & untreated conditions will worsen health. ❌ Many who can work with support will be pushed out. This is NOT REFORM -it is social vandalism.

In their first three months in office, the Labour government approved £11 million arms exports to Israel. Britain is complicit in genocide.

Let’s be clear: £6bn in disability cuts isn’t a ‘reform.’ It’s state violence. It’s political abandonment. And it would cost lives. Labour knows this—so don’t do it anyway. #DisabilityBenefits

Carers should never have to worry about whether they can afford food on top of everything else 💔 When we face tough times, our social security system should provide just that - security.

TW: Benefits Typo here - it should read: Millions spend five years on waiting lists for decent housing, physical and mental healthcare. With each passing year, their chances of entrenched disability increase, making disability benefits more essential-not less.

BREAKING: 230+ organisations from partner countries to the global F-35 jet programme demand their governments immediately halt all arms to Israel, including F-35 fighter jets. https://caat.org.uk/news/over-230-global-organisations-demand-governments-producing-f-35-jets-stop-arming-israel/

A government report has provided crucial new evidence that links longer NHS waiting-lists with increases in the number of disabled people on benefits.