Private health spending in the UK up nearly 9% in 2023
People in the UK spent a record £32bn on mostly private health care last year – up from £29.8bn in 2022. That included £8.6bn on medicines, vitamins, and supplements, and…
People in the UK spent a record £32bn on mostly private health care last year – up from £29.8bn in 2022. That included £8.6bn on medicines, vitamins, and supplements, and…
All aboard the hating disabled people bus for our next batshit destination! Having just left ‘doctors can’t be trusted to write sicknotes’ lane and careening past the UN report at…
New government statistics have confirmed what millions of people already knew. Specifically, this was that cases of long Covid across the UK are rampant and ever on the rise –…
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is being taken to court over its latest attacks on benefits claimants. These include changes to how chronically ill and disabled people claim…
In a report published on Wednesday 24 April, the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (UNCRPD) called out the UK Government for their callous treatment of disabled…
Two of the biggest myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME) charities in the UK may be a little too cosy with a controversial organisation pulling the strings behind the clinical care for patients…
It’s been coming for a while, as the amount of news stories about how many disabled and chronically ill people are ‘languishing’ on Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits…
After public outcry and media coverage around a campaign called #BringMillieHome, it has come to light another young woman living – Carla – with ‘severe ME’ (myalgic encephalomyelitis, ME, also…
Another day, another disturbing Tory scheme to fuck over chronically ill and disabled people. In the UK government’s latest state-of-the-art vanity project to drive up its dire employment rate statistics,…
Guardian journalist George Monbiot has been calling out the continued appalling abuse of people living with myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME, also known as ME/CFS). However, there’s one prominent, powerful psychiatrist standing…
I’m often asked what needs to change to make the world a better place for disabled people. It used to be a complex answer for me. It depended on the…
Last week the Canary ran my story A disabled man is being PROSECUTED for blocking parliament with his MOBILITY SCOOTER just before my trial at Westminster Magistrate’s Court. Here’s the…