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Qualitative researcher working in public health, mental health and criminology. Investigating the impact of the cost of living crisis on infant feeding. Lived experience of bipolar. Living in Wales https://charlottewalker.uk/ ORCID 0000-0003-2244-350X
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And even with Starmer's "concessions" to rebels in his own party the Welfare Bill will deny many of them necessary support. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 40 minutes ago • 3 comments

“The state is bloated, productivity has flatlined and the economy is stuck in first gear," Badenoch said. Asked for details of which benefits should be cut, she declined to specify, but said welfare was not "designed" to support "behavioural and mental health conditions like anxiety” 🙃🙃🙃🙃🙃

submitted 1 hour ago • 3 comments

Our sadistic government seems to enjoy making disabled people suffer extreme levels of anxiety and worry. If I lost either one of my two disability benefits, I would lose my house. And I would lose my life tbh. No, I’m not exaggerating. This is the reality of what they’re doing

submitted 3 hours ago • 4 comments

Powerful: “Starmer’s Labour sees citizens simply as human resources. As the HR department for the capitalist state, extractivism is the order of the day… It is the story of a neoliberal politics of death, where disabled and chronically ill people become unwanted columns in a fiscal balance sheet”

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

Say no to Starmer the nuke rearmer! Join us in protesting the dangerous expansion of Britain's nuclear weapons programme at RAF Marham this Saturday! Details: cnduk.org/events/say-n...

submitted 3 hours ago • 1 comment

The government’s disability cuts will have a “devastating” impact on women’s health and dignity and could breach equality law, experts warn. The new rules won’t take into account menstruation or some women’s extra toilet requirements. My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/j...

submitted 2 days ago • 19 comments

Also, you know, he is a massive disablist. As is any party doing this.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

‘What time is it’ asks me a lady on a bus stop while I wait for mine. ‘15:30’ I say. ‘I had a daughter your age’ she says after a short break, unexpectedly . ‘They took her from me.’ And just like that, I feel the abyss of her grieve opening its mouth right at me,

submitted 1 day ago • 7 comments

We had to sleep in the car. Then Mum punctured a lilo.

submitted 11 hours ago • 5 comments

Late medieval wealthy elites sometimes sent wax moulds of their arms or legs to armourers to ensure correct fit and articulation in crucial parts of plate armour, especially for suits they might wear into battle. Steel doesn't 'give' like cloth* which takes made-to-measure to next level. *cont.

submitted 13 hours ago • 3 comments

Good morning! We’ve just had some lovely porridge and I’m currently under the cat. I was awoken at 5.20am by Mr Noisy, the local crow, who likes to shout beside my open bedroom window. He went on for ages this morning. So I’m feeling a little jaded. What are your plans this Thursday?

submitted 11 hours ago • 6 comments

Cheesy broccoli pasta bake for dinner! Hell yeah!

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

*amending my co op funeral plan*

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

Here’s how London has fallen: when it comes to crime rate per capita in England it’s not even in the Top 5 police regions. No.1 is Cleveland which racist fact fans is 98% white.

submitted 1 day ago • 0 comments

16-year-old female Giant anteater Jade and her mobile enrichment is quite possibly the best thing you’ll see all day.

submitted 1 day ago • 10 comments

*looks at Sir Keir Starmer*

submitted 1 day ago • 2 comments

People actually think disabled people are CHOOSING not to work and are choosing to be low income. We are disabled. We are disabled . Disability is stopping us from working. Not choice . Employers not accommodating us is stoping us from working . We are disabled. Is it making sense yet?

submitted 1 day ago • 1 comment

None of those newspapers (or the BBC) that gleefully ran stories when the EHRC gave trans people a shoeing will now report on the EHRC admitting they (and hence those stories) were wrong. Are those outlets craven - or dishonest? Thank goodness for the legal press. www.law360.com/articles/235...

submitted 1 day ago • 23 comments

#BBCNews - Medical misogyny sees women told to 'put up' with pain www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 196 days ago • 0 comments