🔴 Follow the Money: How the Right Weaponises the Costs of Supporting Learning Disabled People "Society should become more transparent about where the money is being spent. What we certainly should not do is blame learning disabled people and their families" @stephenunwin.bsky.social

Jeez.

New to our Arden Performance Companions series, 'Shakespeare and Brecht: A Practical Guide for Actors, Directors, Students and Teachers' by @stephenunwin.bsky.social is the first guide connecting the two playwrights, expanding staging & performing possibilities. https://bit.ly/4pMQjoH

Nearly 40 years later Tilda Swinton and I are having another go at Manfred Karge’s Man to Man. Royal Court, Berliner Ensemble, Lucille Lortel, NYC.

complete batshit insanity

Off to Cambridge University to talk about learning disabilities. I relish the contradiction.

This is what fascism looks like.

The people in Arizona’s 7th congressional district have been without representation in Congress for over 7 months. Mike Johnson continues to deny them representation because their duly elected representative has pledged to sign the petition to release the Epstein files.

Best bought in boxes of 10. 😂

Sara Ryan's brilliant new book. www.stephenunwin.uk/thoughts-and...

‼️CONFIRMED: Nearly 7 million people turned out for No Kings today. With more than 2,700 lawful and peaceful protests across all 50 states, today’s mobilization was 14 times larger than both of Trump’s presidential inaugurations combined, marking a historic moment of unity and resistance. #NoKings

This has marinaded over many years. Proud it’s finally out.

Make it make sense. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]

The Department of Education reportedly fired nearly everyone in the office that focuses on the nation’s children with disabilities in a wave of new layoffs

Proud of this. Like sending a thought out into the world. To be heard, ignored or rejected. But there it is.

heartbroken to learn the pope sympathizes with the poor. how can i continue to believe in god

Brilliant evening hearing our former @kidscharity.bsky.social Chair @stephenunwin.bsky.social talk to Patron @cathynewman.bsky.social about his book ‘Beautiful Lives’. A compelling challenge to stop valuing only money and cleverness and to adopt a richer notion of being human.

Great talking to Cathy Newman at a lovely evening for KIDS tonight.

America is going to have so many attorneys it needs to disbar when all this is over, and Letitia James will not be one of them

A house in Clacton bought with unknown finances, a Russian funded Welsh leader and now an investigation into the finances and tax affairs of one of Farage’s key ally. The treachery and corruption is right in front of the media’s eyes and they do and say, NOTHING!

Join us for an incredible evening with @stephenunwin.bsky.social, as he shares insights from his powerful book, Beautiful Lives: How We Got Learning Disabilities So Wrong. There will be an interview with Stephen & live Q&A hosted by @cathynewman.bsky.social. Book: www.kids.org.uk/events/an-ev...

On 17th Oct UDIDD at the USW is hosting a book launch 2-4pm Author Stephen Unwin will be talking about his book 'Beautiful Lives' . Sara Ryan will be talking about her book 'Critical Health and Learning Disability: an exploration of erasure and social murder' ow.ly/A1iA50X66cq

Thanks so much for doing it!

I feel like this photo of masked, armed men pepper spraying a pastor protecting his community is going to be a defining picture of this moment in America for a long, long time.

To anyone who thinks Jenrick was right in what he said. He was WRONG! Birmingham is a proud, diverse and welcoming city but Brummies will not stand by and let MP’s or anyone else attempt to sow division in our communities. I ❤️ Brum

In 1981 the SDP / Liberals were polling at more than 50% with the Tories and Labour both at 23%. Reform’s strength is overstated.

Brilliant book. Everyone should read this ⬇️

Tory party’s long journey away from science, reason, responsibility, common sense and truth is complete

I suppose anyone who opposes the attitudes revealed at the Met is simply “woke”. Time the “anti-woke” culture warriors came clean.

BJGPLife: Beautiful Lives: How we got learning disabilities so wrong, by Stephen Unwin bjgplife.com/beautif... #GeneralPractice #PrimaryCare #FamilyMedicine

Out soon.

It might seem far-fetched now to attack Catholics in England, but Britain has a long history of sectarian violence & war. The Gordon Riots of 1780 were due to anti-Catholic feeling. That’s the sort of thing that the far right does now, except against British Muslims.

Why do headlines say "norms shattered" when what is meant is "laws broken" or "Constitution violated"?

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Portland is clearly a test run—your blue state is next. Any non-compliance with the demands of the fascist regime upon your local/state governments will be deemed Rebellion and will lead to federal troops being deployed to suppress you and your rights. So do not expect a free and fair 2026 election.

The British theatre gathered at St James’ Picadilly this morning to remember and celebrate the great Tim West. I was touched to be asked to say a few words. What an actor. What a man.

In case you were wondering, the RFK / Trump theory about autism is complete bollocks.

The real horror about this is the fact the US Government are blaming women for Autism

Britain is better than its reputation. And its bad reputation plays into the hands of divisive nationalists. So, to repeat. Britain is better than its reputation. Complacency is bad. So is catstrophism.

What a lovely review of my book. bjgplife.com/beautiful-li...

Emma.

I hope in a darkening world this helps spread some light. ❤️

FOX news host suggests we euthanize the homeless, someone goes into two encampments and starts shooting. 13 people shot and Jacob Frey and the media are just talking about it as the new best reason to clear the encampments

Phil Williams sharing some data…

I hope in a darkening world this helps spread some light. ❤️

I’m “teching” Ryan Craig’s adaptation of Jane Austen’s EMMA at the Theatre Royal Bath this week, and looking through my CV (for another reason entirely) I realise to my horror that this is my 100th professional theatre or opera production. And I still feel like a beginner.

This is exactly the kind of despicable scaremongering that Aseem Malhotra has made his modus operandi. Insinuations, hearsay, anti-vaxx, non-evidence-based, lurid, self-enriching, anti-scientific claptrap. Of course Reform UK lapped it up. 1/4

So glad this video of Graham Linehan allegedly assaulting a 17 year-old is finally public.

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