thepoorsideof.life/2025/06/06/s... NEW from me. Stephen Timms and His Troubling Stance on Disability

thepoorsideof.life/2025/05/31/h... NEW from me. Hidden Injustice. How Changes to PIP and Universal Credit Threaten Disabled People’s Livelihoods And Lifes

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... British vets could face price caps on medicines, prescriptions and other services like cremations, the regulator has indicated, as it outlined changes it is considering to the way the UK's £2bn veterinary sector operates.

An Irish woman who has been living legally in the United States for decades has been taken into detention by US Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) after a trip to Ireland to visit her sick father. www.irishtimes.com/crime-law/20...

@charlottehughes.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social ‘Disability, Illness and Impairment are the Norms of Human History – Living Through This Labour Government’s Benefits Cuts Is Brutal’ – Byline Times bylinetimes.com/2025/04/18/d...

@charlottehughes.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social ‘No significant progress’ made on rights of disabled, says UN. Exactly one year later, and with a ‘Labour’ government, there’s STILL no progress! morningstaronline.co.uk/article/no-s...

#SocialistSunday No5 @charlottehughes.bsky.social @nataliegreenpeer.bsky.social @councilestatemedia.uk @communicipalist.bsky.social @eileenk.bsky.social @transient337.bsky.social A clean slate thephilosophicalmuse.blog/2025/04/27/a...

MPs have quietly been handed a pay rise while the rest of us suffer a cost of living crisis. But every MP has the option to refuse to take it, or donate it to charity. We call on every MP to turn down the pay rise. Sign the petition: r.ippl.es/mps-pay-2024/

thepoorsideof.life/2025/04/27/t... NEW from me. The Price of Parenthood. Why the Two Child Benefit Cap Is Failing Families

thepoorsideof.life/2025/04/18/p... Political Time Bomb. Proposed Welfare Cuts Threaten Labour’s Strongholds

thepoorsideof.life/2025/04/10/i... NEW from me. Invisible No More. The Catastrophic Impact of Pip Benefit Cuts on Disabled Individuals

@elemjay.bsky.social @daibhi.bsky.social @gracem2.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social @johnsensible.bsky.social @revbluessusie.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social Bob Dylan & Bruce Springsteen - "Forever Young" | Concert for the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame youtu.be/QmCeWhUGXlo?...

Proposed PIP Changes Could Threaten the Dignity and Survival of Disabled Individuals thepoorsideof.life/2025/03/14/p... via @charlottehughes.bsky.social

Exposing the Department for Work and Pensions' Lack of Accountability thepoorsideof.life/2025/03/14/e... via @charlottehughes.bsky.social

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Unlawful Benefit Deductions Are Hurting Universal Credit Recipients thepoorsideof.life/2025/02/27/u... via @charlottehughes.bsky.social

thepoorsideof.life/2025/02/27/u... NEW from me.

Unemployed Doesn’t Mean Untrustworthy. The Wrongful Assault on Benefit Claimants

thepoorsideof.life/2025/02/24/t... A society cannot call itself as being just and fair if it prioritizes punishing the poor over holding the affluent accountable.

Unmasking Predudiced Myths.The Struggle for Mental Health Benefits thepoorsideof.life/2025/02/12/u... via @charlottehughes.bsky.social

The Sanction Scandal: Why Punishing Claimants is Unjust. Shocking New Sanction Data Revealed thepoorsideof.life/2025/02/24/t... via @charlottehughes.bsky.social

@charlottehughes.bsky.social @paulapeters19.bsky.social @vamroses.bsky.social Hit by the household benefit cap: Forcing people to live on less than they need national.thelead.uk/p/hit-by-the...

"If a woman fancies that she looks better or feels better in men's clothes, there is no reason why she may not indulge in so harmless a fancy." The illustrated book of manners: a manual of good behavior and polite accomplishments by R. De Valcourt, 1866. archive.org/details/illu...

NEW from me. Invisible Disabilities A Call For Greater Understanding And Fairness.

Found the brilliant Charlotte Hughes on Bluesky (@charlottehughes.bsky.social) - she writes the blogpost www.thepoorsideof.life - well worth a follow and a read🌹

www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2024... A Charity Commission inquiry concluded the late Captain Tom’s daughter Hannah Ingram-Moore and her husband, Colin Ingram-Moore, were culpable of “serious and repeated” instances of misconduct, mismanagement and failures of integrity.

Gisèle Pelicot’s sons appeared in court, addressing their father, who admits to having drugged their mother over years and inviting scores of men to rape her while she was unconscious. “You need to know this trial is a trial of a devastated family,” said David Pelicot, the eldest son.

Tax rises in budget sap UK consumer confidence and will hit pay growth, say reports

Nine out of ten Amazon addictions can prob be traced back to the Scholastic Book Fair.

Latest book haul. In my house, we don’t call it CRT. We call it history, and we learn about the things that define us as people.

The Guardian view on children’s homes: cap profits and don’t stop there | Editorial

The Associated Press is planning to make cuts affecting 8% of staff, of which less than half would impact news staff, Press Gazette understands. Most of those affected are expected to be in the US pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/j...

I will never understand how a billionaire, the richest man on Earth, spent millions to buy an election for ANOTHER billionaire, and told us that his policies would cause all of us non-billionaires “temporary hardship...” ...and the public didn't tell BOTH OF THEM to fuck off.

Gisèle Pelicot rape trial: children tell of ‘devastation’ caused by their father

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thepoorsideof.life/2024/11/18/i... NEW from me. Invisible Wounds. The Unseen Toll of Homelessness on Over 120,000 Children and Teens in the UK

The Handmaid's Tale is a good book. But did you know that there's a book written by a Black woman about a post-apocalyptic Earth heavily affected by climate change and societal decline. The book was published in 1993, but is set in 2024 following a presidential election 👀 #BookSky #BlackBookSky

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