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Scientists say 4 billion people, about half the world's population, experienced at least one extra month of extreme heat because of human-caused climate change from May 2024 to May 2025.

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You want to cut PIP because “too many people qualify.” Ever wonder why? Maybe more people are disabled because more people are burned out, injured by austerity, stuck on waiting lists or living in systems that break us. The answer isn’t less support. It’s more care. #TakingThePIP

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MPs are floating a “transition period” to soften the blow of PIP cuts—so claimants can move onto “other benefits.” That’s fantasy. PIP is to be the gateway. Lose it, and you lose access to nearly all other benefits. That’s the cliff’s edge. #TakingThePIP

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Ukraine must urgently be given the €300bn of frozen Russian assets | Phillip Inman

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Speaking at today’s Compass conference at the Ministry of Sound, Andy Burnham calls on the govt to “think again” on disability benefits cuts - “please don’t make those cuts”

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🚨 SHOCK: “Lovely Man” Who Slaughtered His Entire Family, Had “Never Done Anything Like This Before.” 👇🏻 It’s #BrokenNews. Please Watch and share. youtu.be/cHOi9Sfr-ug

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How does cutting disability benefits like PIP help people into work? The government hasn't provided any evidence that it does. In fact, removing PIP may force some disabled people who are currently in employment to drop out of work entirely. Me on the Today programme this morning:

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social this is the type of insurance based healthcare that Farage has suggested (for humans) in place of the NHS model. Imagine going through these traumatic decisions and costs for family members

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social Honest Bob?

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“There was a 1,055% increase in unauthorised phone SIM swaps in the UK in 2024 – a practice which not only leads to people having their money stolen but also their identity”.

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Removing the proposed 4 point PIP criteria would be a huge relief and genuinely save lives, but simply adding a longer transitional 'tail off' period would still leave tens of thousands of people who can't work in long term, severe poverty

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Elon Musk is distancing himself from Trump’s incompetent, childish, vindictive and autocratic style of administration owing to irreconcilable similarities.

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"Water pollution is a massive problem. The River Ouse, a major river in Yorkshire, is identified as being at risk from manure pollution from factory farms. UK livestock farming produces an estimated 33,450 tonnes of manure every day."

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This is a very positive step, but it won't help the tens of thousands of ill and disabled people who simply can't work and who will be pushed into unremitting, deep poverty by the cuts. Their care needs won't disappear, but their unpaid (family) carer will lose Carer's Allowance.

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UK must toughen regulation of facial recognition, says @adalovelaceinst.bsky.social on.ft.com/43lnQNL

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Good morning , your #foxoftheday today from @pekingfrog !

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Me: Look, but don’t make it obvious.. My friends: #Animals #Pets #Wonderful

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Debbie Abrahams, chair of the Work and Pensions Committee: “People aren’t just dying of suicides. It’s starvation,”

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Every 0.1° matters... "The prospect of hundreds of millions of people trying to escape climate extremes, be it prolonged droughts, heat, coastal erosion and saline pollution or desertification, will be extremely difficult to manage internationally."

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Just finished this beautiful, powerful, indelible read. It chronicles @gracespencegreen.bsky.social's journey from 22-year-old medical student to qualified doctor & disability activist after a man falls onto her in a shopping centre, breaking her spine. Out next week & it's superb.

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People are unaware of high care costs, the cost of caring yourself, or long waiting lists. Most of us hope the social care system will be there for us in times of need. But the system we have currently is inadequate. Our latest analysis has found a ‘care expectation gap’ 🔽 1/4

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What could possibly go wrong..?

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British doctor in Gaza describes horror as people starve - and tells world leaders to 'do something'

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South London Press has printed its last issue. Very sad, but not surprising. In later years it only survived thanks to its excellent sports coverage (ironically, in the last week Charlton and the Dons have been promoted and Palace have won the cup!). But many will remember it fondly, including me.

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Almost one-half of families with children in poverty who are not working contain an adult with a disability or limiting health condition. Read more in our recent research on child poverty ⤵️ buff.ly/hbdiilh

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"And now there is another level of cruelty. The government’s plans to cut down millions of people’s entitlements to Personal Independence Payments will have knock-on effects for carers - depriving an estimated 150,000 people of either Carer’s Allowance or the carer element of Universal Credit."

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Keir Starmer is being advised to urgently pause the Government's plans to cut disability and health benefits by Parliament's work and pensions committee. www.itv.com/news/2025-05...

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“I’m in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action.” A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

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NEW: The young girl seen stumbling through the flames of her school building in Gaza did survive. But her siblings & mother are dead. "I walked through the fire all by myself. The rubble fell on them. "I want to see my sisters, to be with them, but they're dead.“ (🎥 Channel 4 News)

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“If these plans go ahead, 700,000 families already living in poverty will face further devastation,” “This is not reform; it is cruelty by policy.”

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With UK heatwave temperatures soaring, homeless people on the streets are at risk. Here's how you can help.

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"And now there is another level of cruelty. The government’s plans to cut down millions of people’s entitlements to Personal Independence Payments will have knock-on effects for carers - depriving an estimated 150,000 people of either Carer’s Allowance or the carer element of Universal Credit."

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

Synchronized jump.. 👌 #Animals #Pets #Wonderful

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‘Our estimates show that it is extremely unlikely that the rise in employment these reforms cause will be big enough to prevent a major rise and deepening of poverty’ Assessing the impact of disability and incapacity benefit reforms on employment www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

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‘Without substantive action to change course, 4.7million children will be in poverty by the end of this parliament, 300,000 more than when this gov came to power. Going ahead with disability cuts could add a further 50,000-100,000’ www.jrf.org.uk/child-povert...

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Doctors & journalists have risked their lives to make this BBC Gaza doco which had passed editorial and legal compliance. The BBC should either air it or allow filmmakers @BasementFilms @bendepear to take it to another broadcaster. www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m...

submitted 8 days ago • 6 comments

This Archie Bland piece is such a thing. Beautifully written, heartfelt, triumphant. He's on Bluesky but not active. He should know this is a lovely masterpiece. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

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