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Reminder: if you are a disabled journo or activist, you have no obligation to accept any media invites in the coming days. After last week’s ableist remarks, Nick Ferrari asked me on his show tomorrow. I said I sadly couldn’t work with him - even if I have use of both of my arms.

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So many of my patients rely on PIP to access recovery treatment. Without it they probably wouldn't survive, let alone be able to access treatment. PIP is already very hard to get - plans to make it harder are simply cruel. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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Ireland is the only country in the world to have a musical instrument as it's national symbol. Many years ago, British occupiers made it illegal to possess a harp and set out to burn every harp in a failed attempt to kill the “Irish spirit.” Happy St Patrick's day 💚

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... while all the time increasing policing, fines & prison sentences - ready for anyone who dares protest

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The only growth Labour have created is in those who hate them.

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We'll commit to a slice 🥧 Happy Pi Day!

submitted 4 days ago • 238 comments

"MPs on the left of the party have called for wealth taxes rather than welfare cuts, but that is a non-starter with the chancellor." When wealth taxes instead of welfare cuts are a non starter, there's not really a "left of the party." www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Mass exodus of organisations from antisemitism inquiry exposes it as a farce The inquiry at Goldsmiths University has ignored the legitimate question of how unfounded accusations of antisemitism are used to silence Palestinian voices and those who stand with them. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...

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The point is not that Rachel Reevew communication on growth is awful. It's not just a desperate strategy to do more of what isn't working. So much more fundamental. It's that Labour decided to be on the side of the elites and screw over the rest of us. And they've been found out.

submitted 4 days ago • 9 comments

Labour saw the 300,00 deaths caused by austerity and said "hold my pint".

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Join us with the Jewish Bloc tomorrow on the 26th National March for Palestine as we call for an end to arms sales to Israel, an end to the occupation, and an end to apartheid. 🗓 Saturday 15th March ⏱️ 11.45am 📍 Stratton Street Gardens (W1J 8LA) 🍉 Bring placards/banners/yourself/your voice!

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Israel carried out “genocidal acts” against Palestinians by systematically destroying women’s healthcare facilities during its war on Gaza and using sexual violence as a war strategy, say UN experts. Read more: aje.io/pup0ac

submitted 5 days ago • 8 comments

One more time for ministers at the back: it’s entirely possible to be a taxpayer and to receive benefits. As someone currently in the mid-tax band and on PIP, I’m more than happy for my earnings to help people who can’t work - and to pick up the state support I’m entitled to.

submitted 4 days ago • 25 comments

Damning new DWP research shows it is failing disabled people - just as Labour wants to cut their benefits When the DWP itself admits that 44% of claimants don't trust it to manage their claims - then why are Labour cutting £6bn from them? www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

submitted 5 days ago • 2 comments

Does the structure of the benefits system actually discourage disabled people from working? Or is this just how the Government plans to sell cuts to their benefits?

submitted 6 days ago • 97 comments

Labour MP condemns secret filming of UK parliamentary delegation in Israel - https://www.middleeasteye.net/news/uk-labour-mp-condemns-secret-filming-parliamentary-delegation-israel

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

Actually Labour is unfair and indefensible.

submitted 7 days ago • 41 comments

The UN are slamming this government and rightly so. Time for neo-liberalism to go. We need socialism. www.bigissue.com/opinion/unit...

submitted 8 days ago • 1 comment

When someone becomes disabled or chronically ill, people will twist themselves into knots finding a way to blame them. They need to find fault so they don’t have to face the randomness of life. The truth is, anyone can become disabled at any time. Good health is not a guarantee.

submitted 7 days ago • 47 comments

Official figures prove that government claims that social security spending is “spiralling out of control” are “not based on any real facts”, say disabled activists. Our campaign leader @carolinejc.bsky.social quoted in this article from @johnpring.bsky.social

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One under appreciated point in the discussion on welfare is that we live in a very different economy to that of 50 years ago. Our economy is dominated by service/knowledge industries - sectors it’s particularly hard to work in if you’re neurodiverse or have a chronic mental health condition. 🧵

submitted 7 days ago • 19 comments

Disabled people are not a burden. They are our neighbours and friends — and they deserve to live fulfilling lives just like anyone else. A statement from the Independent Alliance on cuts to welfare.

submitted 8 days ago • 28 comments

There is an alternative to Government welfare cuts - a 2% tax on wealth. There is no shortage of money here, we just need a fairer approach to tax - take more from the few not the many.

submitted 10 days ago • 178 comments

If we can find the money to kill people, we can find the money to help people.

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The deputy editor of Conservative Home pitches old people who receive the triple lock protected universal state pension against young people. The associate political editor of the New Statesman agrees with him When its actually the super rich vs old people, young people & everyone in between

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BBC accused of violating own child protection guidelines in Gaza documentary - https://www.middleeasteye.net/trending/bbc-accused-violating-own-child-protection-guidelines

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The right wing think tank, Policy Exchange, has released a big report today recommending young people on PIP “be required to look for work, to volunteer or be engaged in training.” Only one problem: PIP is not an out of work benefit. policyexchange.org.uk/publication/...

submitted 11 days ago • 16 comments

All national teams should start threatening a boycott of World Cup USA 2026.

submitted 12 days ago • 175 comments

"How Palestine Became the Testing Ground for Israeli Military Exports" For Zeteo, author Antony Loewenstein on how the Israeli defense industry is making record profits by selling weapons across the world that it first used on Palestinians:

submitted 13 days ago • 30 comments

The chair of the BBC Board has called for a review of the BBC’s Middle East coverage. We’ve already done one. 👉 ‘National scandal’: The BBC’s Gaza cover-up www.declassifieduk.org/national-sca...

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People in Gaza haven't been earning money for 17 months. At the same time most have lost everything. That's why 90% of people in the strip rely on food aid. And now Israel has blocked the entry of everything going into Gaza. Hani Mahmoud reporting

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This is the most dangerous, irresponsible framing imaginable. Not to mention it is bollocks. The big big winners from positioning Ukrainian security against poor British people & our public services are the far right. TAX THE RICH TO PAY FOR DEFENSE. PROTECT OUR WELFARE STATE.

submitted 12 days ago • 123 comments

Rachel Shabi: "None of the papers have anything about... Israel collapsing the ceasefire and blocking humanitarian aid to Gaza, which is a war crime, and it is striking that that has not made any of the front [pages of the UK papers]"

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The largest number of Palestinians displaced since 1967, with Israel demolishing hundreds of homes & destroying critical infrastructure (including roads, water & power lines) Hamdah Salhut on whats happening across the occupied West Bank

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We have got to stop kidding ourselves that appeasing Trump & trying to please him gains us any leverage, any guarantees, any reliable favour. Trump has chosen Putin and the oligarchy. We must cancel his state visit. @ukstoptrump.bsky.social

submitted 15 days ago • 85 comments

We can't have money for the homeless. We can't have money to support disabled people. We can't have money to insulate homes. We can't have money to support grassroots communities or culture or the arts. Yet there's always lots and lots of money for the arms trade.

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Today I have called for a Chilcot-style inquiry into the UK’s involvement in Israel’s assault on Gaza. Our concerns have routinely been met with evasion and silence. We need a full, public, independent inquiry with the legal power to establish the truth. news.sky.com/story/starme...

submitted 14 days ago • 37 comments

Watch No Other Land on Channel 4

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DOGE recommends cuts to the FAA. Hundreds of workers get fired, including those tasked with producing air traffic navigation maps. Now Starlink is reportedly in line to take over a $2 billion contract to upgrade the nation's air traffic control systems. See how this works?

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Per Dr Atul Gawande, ex USAID: “All malaria supplies protecting 53 million people, mostly children, including bed nets, diagnostics, preventive drugs, and treatments – terminated.” There are no words that sufficiently describe this level of cruelty and sadism.

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Israel just went to war with Syria. Didn't know about it? That's because it got barely any media coverage. Why? New post 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/israel-jus...

submitted 20 days ago • 29 comments

Hamdah Salhut reports that Israel essentially abducted women and children from Gaza and took them to detention facilities where they've been held without charge or trial. But they're not hostages, right?

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We need to tax them until they bleed

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"Russian intelligence operatives posing as fruit pickers are suspected of flying drones over UK military bases in a possible espionage operation. New details suggest Russian involvement in drone swarms over military airbases, with agents accused of assuming false identities."

submitted 19 days ago • 61 comments

This is one of those scandals every person relying on the system knows but those in power never mention: the DWP stops PIP and Carer’s Allowance when a disabled person is in hospital for 28 days. When at their sickest, make them worry they can’t pay their bills. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

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