What does a sitting Labour MP, a multimillion charitable trust, and the most prominent UK-based pro-assisted dying lobby group have in common? It turns out, quite a lot actually –…
My name is Sam. I am 52. I am doubly disabled. I am Autistic and I have been disabled with long Covid since 15 March 2020. There are two parts…
Content warning: Saffron’s story around autism, ARFID, and the NHS may be distressing to some readers. It includes commentary on food, eating, mental health, and suicide that some readers may…
‘Out, damned spot! out, I say … Hell is murky! … What need we fear who knows it, when none can call our power to account?’ – Act 5, Scene…
Labour Party plans to get more disabled people back to work must ensure that the risk is not carried solely by the individual if they take steps towards work, new…
The National Audit Office (NAO) is recommending a review of how NHS Health Checks are provided in England to help prevent cases of cardiovascular disease that affects millions of people…
When Glyn Hayes from Welwyn in Hertfordshire applied to Access to Work for a new wheelchair attachment, he never expected what was supposed to be a 12-week process to last…
Labour MP Kim Leadbeater’s Assisted Dying Bill will have its second reading, and vote, in parliament on 29 November. As the Canary has documented, the campaign in support of the…
A bereaved daughter had to produce her own adult safeguarding review, after Suffolk County Council and joint safeguarding authorities utterly failed her dad living with dementia. To make matters worse,…
A young woman, Nevra, who lives with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is issuing an urgent call out for an in-person medically knowledgeable ME ally and advocate. She lives in Pakistan,…
How much will you earn between now and the rest of the year? Well if you’re disabled it’s effectively nothing. Thursday 7 November is Disability Pay Gap Day, and due to…
The cancellations of Macbeth, with David Tennant in the lead role, has led to questions being raised around the ongoing ambivalence to the continuing public health threat of coronavirus (Covid-19)…