Labour six pledges just completely ignored disabled people
After weeks of hearing the awful changes the Tories have got planned, the Labour Party took to the podium today to announce their pre-election pledges. While there was a lot of…
housing association torturing chronically ill woman
A housing association – Adra – is torturing a severely chronically ill woman and putting her life at risk. She lives with both Ehlers-Danlos syndromes (EDS) and severe myalgic encephalomyelitis…
1.5 million women in the UK now unable to work
New analysis from the Trades Union Congress (TUC) shows the number of women economically inactive as a result of chronic illness has increased by more than 500,000 over last five…
Mel Stride gurning on TV about his latest DWP plan is sickening
As expected after an embarrassing time at the polls, the Tories were back to take it out on disabled people this week. The human wet wipe, the DWP’s Mel Stride,…
Unite To Fight conference on ME/CFS & long Covid announced
A groundbreaking international and community-driven long Covid and myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) conference – ‘Unite To Fight’ – is about to take place for the first time. Already, the event is…
Stride caught lying twice for latest disability benefits assault
In the past couple of weeks, the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) boss Mel Stride has lied not once, but twice about disabled people’s benefits – specifically, PIP. Naturally,…
ME/CFS and Australian state trapping woman in domestic abuse
A woman living with severe myalgic encephalomyelitis/chronic fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS) in Australia is desperately appealing for help to leave an abusive household. The neglect and abuse the Australian state, healthcare…
cops nick disabled Charlie Chaplin outside parliament
I go on trial at Westminster Magistrate’s Court on May Day, having been nicked protesting the genocide in Gaza, blocking the entrance to parliament dressed as Charlie Chaplin. This is…
Vouchers for disabled people is another end of a very thin wedge
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…
UK government abuse slammed by disabled people
A UN committee – the UNCRPD – has slammed the UK government’s abhorrent treatment of disabled people. Now, Deaf and Disabled People’s Organisations (DDPOs) across the UK have spoken out…
research featured in a campaign to shake it up
A new campaign seeks to shake up the dire state of funding for biomedical research into myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME). In time for ME Awareness Day on 12 May, a volunteer…
Long Covid numbers in UK hit two million people
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 –…