@elisabe.bsky.social
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My book Ramping Up Rights aims to arm disabled people with our history and how we fought, so that we can still fight today. The gov and media want disabled people to feel isolated, because we are so strong when we come together - and that terrifies them.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
Ramping Up Rights | Hurst Publishers
A 100-year history of enraging injustices and inspiring campaigns: the fight for British disability rights isn’t over.
www.hurstpublishers.com
November 9, 2025 at 8:53 AM
My book Ramping Up Rights aims to arm disabled people with our history and how we fought, so that we can still fight today. The gov and media want disabled people to feel isolated, because we are so strong when we come together - and that terrifies them.
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
www.hurstpublishers.com/book/ramping...
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This is no way to treat our veterans Prime Minister.
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
These national heroes have now waited more than a year for a meeting with Keir Starmer to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition. They are now in their eighties and are dying waiting for justice. This is no way to treat veterans Prime Minister
youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...
Video emerges of Deputy PM,Defence Secretary & other Ministers BACKING compensation for Nuclear Vets
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 8:15 AM
This is no way to treat our veterans Prime Minister.
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
It’s now over a month since PM agreed on BBCBreakfast to meet with the nuclear test veterans (having kept them waiting more than a year to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition) & still no date offered by his office
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These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base
🚨This is not what I expect from a Labour government
THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England
youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...
THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England
youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...
Devastating cuts for some of most vulnerable children in England is not what I expect from Labour
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base
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Opt-out has repeatedly failed to be effective, on an international scale.
Currently, scepticism of science/medics is a big cofounder.
As always, in healthcare, it’s about communication.
The ability & time to have a sensitive specialist conversation.
Forced process is never the answer.
Currently, scepticism of science/medics is a big cofounder.
As always, in healthcare, it’s about communication.
The ability & time to have a sensitive specialist conversation.
Forced process is never the answer.
November 8, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Opt-out has repeatedly failed to be effective, on an international scale.
Currently, scepticism of science/medics is a big cofounder.
As always, in healthcare, it’s about communication.
The ability & time to have a sensitive specialist conversation.
Forced process is never the answer.
Currently, scepticism of science/medics is a big cofounder.
As always, in healthcare, it’s about communication.
The ability & time to have a sensitive specialist conversation.
Forced process is never the answer.
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This report was published 20 October 2022
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
November 8, 2025 at 7:56 PM
This report was published 20 October 2022
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
This was the day Liz Truss announced her resignation
Also the day General Practice was ignored & lost potentially forever
publications.parliament.uk/pa/cm5803/cm...
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🔎 How do national narratives about poverty compare to residents' local experience?
Can data tell us about community resilience and exclusion, and what is missed?
Find out at Roots + Rigour, @placematters.bsky.social @justknowledge.bsky.social's webinar on 20 Nov.
More info: https://bit.ly/4ou4Ncf
Can data tell us about community resilience and exclusion, and what is missed?
Find out at Roots + Rigour, @placematters.bsky.social @justknowledge.bsky.social's webinar on 20 Nov.
More info: https://bit.ly/4ou4Ncf
November 9, 2025 at 2:10 PM
🔎 How do national narratives about poverty compare to residents' local experience?
Can data tell us about community resilience and exclusion, and what is missed?
Find out at Roots + Rigour, @placematters.bsky.social @justknowledge.bsky.social's webinar on 20 Nov.
More info: https://bit.ly/4ou4Ncf
Can data tell us about community resilience and exclusion, and what is missed?
Find out at Roots + Rigour, @placematters.bsky.social @justknowledge.bsky.social's webinar on 20 Nov.
More info: https://bit.ly/4ou4Ncf
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I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train
November 2, 2025 at 7:41 PM
I know this won't surprise anyone here but Musk's reprogrammed artificial intelligence is spreading misinformation about yesterday's attack on a train
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Reaching out to Long COVID groups, disability advocates, and NHS campaigners.
Petition:
'Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge'.
Please sign, support, and share it widely.
#Vaccines4All #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #HealthEquity
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Petition:
'Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge'.
Please sign, support, and share it widely.
#Vaccines4All #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #HealthEquity
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Sign the Petition
Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge
www.change.org
November 2, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Reaching out to Long COVID groups, disability advocates, and NHS campaigners.
Petition:
'Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge'.
Please sign, support, and share it widely.
#Vaccines4All #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #HealthEquity
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
Petition:
'Make COVID-19 Vaccines Universally Available in the UK - Free of Charge'.
Please sign, support, and share it widely.
#Vaccines4All #LongCOVID #PublicHealth #HealthEquity
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
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✅Help Make COVID Vaccines Free - Again
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
November 1, 2025 at 7:08 PM
✅Help Make COVID Vaccines Free - Again
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
✅Over 280 signatures in 2 days.
✅Every signature: a step towards change and equity.
✅Please share the petition widely.
✅Tag your MP.
✅Demand free vaccines for all - regardless of age or ability to pay for a vaccine.
#Vaccines4All
www.change.org/Make-Covid-V...
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District nursing is in a dire state, and the latest report from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk shows a worse than feared collapse in the workforce.
Westminster government’s ambitions to shift care from hospital to community will fail unless the district nursing workforce is rebuilt. ⬇️
Westminster government’s ambitions to shift care from hospital to community will fail unless the district nursing workforce is rebuilt. ⬇️
RCN calls for investment as report reveals dire state of district-nursing | News | Royal College of Nursing
Westminster government’s ambitions to shift care from hospital to community and from sickness to prevention will fail unless district nursing workforce is rebuilt
bit.ly
November 1, 2025 at 4:06 PM
District nursing is in a dire state, and the latest report from @nuffieldtrust.org.uk shows a worse than feared collapse in the workforce.
Westminster government’s ambitions to shift care from hospital to community will fail unless the district nursing workforce is rebuilt. ⬇️
Westminster government’s ambitions to shift care from hospital to community will fail unless the district nursing workforce is rebuilt. ⬇️
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Beautiful Tia is almost 10 and is looking for a new home due to her owner's ill health. She's lived with a small dog previously so has the potential to live with a cat-friendly calm dog. #adoptdontshop #rescuecats #caturday #catsofbluesky #northwales #northwestengland More: shorturl.at/qOdeE
November 1, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Beautiful Tia is almost 10 and is looking for a new home due to her owner's ill health. She's lived with a small dog previously so has the potential to live with a cat-friendly calm dog. #adoptdontshop #rescuecats #caturday #catsofbluesky #northwales #northwestengland More: shorturl.at/qOdeE
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What’s really at stake for our NHS this Budget? 💸
With your support, we’ll investigate who’s shaping NHS policy and expose the facts.
Donate now + help us protect public healthcare, staff and patients: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
With your support, we’ll investigate who’s shaping NHS policy and expose the facts.
Donate now + help us protect public healthcare, staff and patients: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
November 1, 2025 at 5:37 PM
What’s really at stake for our NHS this Budget? 💸
With your support, we’ll investigate who’s shaping NHS policy and expose the facts.
Donate now + help us protect public healthcare, staff and patients: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
With your support, we’ll investigate who’s shaping NHS policy and expose the facts.
Donate now + help us protect public healthcare, staff and patients: bit.ly/NHSandBudget
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Bollocks - this ended on 3 January and was a temporary scheme funded from their surplus, not by taxpayers. Stop making things up you divisive shit-stirring prick.
November 1, 2025 at 5:56 PM
Bollocks - this ended on 3 January and was a temporary scheme funded from their surplus, not by taxpayers. Stop making things up you divisive shit-stirring prick.
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150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year.
Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.
NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation
But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.
Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.
NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation
But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.
Nearly 150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year
Older people left in their own excrement and wet beds for hours and forced to watch others die, Age UK report finds
www.theguardian.com
October 31, 2025 at 8:20 AM
150,000 aged 90 and above wait 12 hours in England’s A&Es each year.
Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.
NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation
But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.
Older people left in excrement, wet beds, denied pain relief, forced to watch/hear other patients die.
NHS money pilfered by PFI and privatisation
But ... Govts have fiscal rules and don't want to tax the rich.
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October 24, 2025 at 8:40 PM
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Israel is continuing to block vital supplies to Gaza despite agreeing to allow aid in as part of the ceasefire agreement, aid agencies warn.
Blocked supplies include food, medicines, tents, and blankets and also materials desperately needed to start rebuilding
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Blocked supplies include food, medicines, tents, and blankets and also materials desperately needed to start rebuilding
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
October 24, 2025 at 9:12 PM
Israel is continuing to block vital supplies to Gaza despite agreeing to allow aid in as part of the ceasefire agreement, aid agencies warn.
Blocked supplies include food, medicines, tents, and blankets and also materials desperately needed to start rebuilding
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
Blocked supplies include food, medicines, tents, and blankets and also materials desperately needed to start rebuilding
www.bmj.com/content/391/...
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Govt reduces London’s affordable housing quotas.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
Ministers confirm plans to reduce London’s affordable housing quotas
Developers will qualify for fast-track planning status if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target
www.theguardian.com
October 24, 2025 at 6:48 AM
Govt reduces London’s affordable housing quotas.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
Developers to get subsidies if they include 20% affordable housing instead of current 35% target.
Bigger profits for developers.
Yielding to developers won't solve homelessness and poverty crisis.
Let councils build affordable homes.
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If the general public understood that resident doctors are simply asking for £22ph and for jobs to be available for them to specialise in - instead of having cost the taxpayer £250k to then have to drive Ubers and leave wards hideously short staffed - the govt would lose the argument overnight.
October 24, 2025 at 6:40 PM
If the general public understood that resident doctors are simply asking for £22ph and for jobs to be available for them to specialise in - instead of having cost the taxpayer £250k to then have to drive Ubers and leave wards hideously short staffed - the govt would lose the argument overnight.
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Your GP isn’t ignoring you; they’re overwhelmed
🚨Fewer doctors
🚨More patients
🚨Endless online requests
#NHS is at breaking point act now before it’s too late.
🚨Fewer doctors
🚨More patients
🚨Endless online requests
#NHS is at breaking point act now before it’s too late.
October 24, 2025 at 6:47 PM
Your GP isn’t ignoring you; they’re overwhelmed
🚨Fewer doctors
🚨More patients
🚨Endless online requests
#NHS is at breaking point act now before it’s too late.
🚨Fewer doctors
🚨More patients
🚨Endless online requests
#NHS is at breaking point act now before it’s too late.
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💬 Viewpoint: Despite women facing higher rates of chronic illness and unique gynecological disorders, federal health leaders have insufficiently prioritized women's health in chronic disease research.
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ja.ma/3Wc11rq
October 19, 2025 at 3:00 PM
💬 Viewpoint: Despite women facing higher rates of chronic illness and unique gynecological disorders, federal health leaders have insufficiently prioritized women's health in chronic disease research.
ja.ma/3Wc11rq
ja.ma/3Wc11rq
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New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
On the edge
My week in the NHS
open.substack.com
October 19, 2025 at 8:14 AM
New post just out:
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
"On the edge"
On my unexpected week in hospital and five things I learnt about the state of the NHS.
(Free to read)
open.substack.com/pub/samf/p/o...
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Agree with all his points. Had some similar experiences with my mum’s recent admission. But just to be clear, from my experience running both hospitals and community services, capacity problems in community settings are even worse than capacity in hospitals settings, just less visible in every way.
October 19, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Agree with all his points. Had some similar experiences with my mum’s recent admission. But just to be clear, from my experience running both hospitals and community services, capacity problems in community settings are even worse than capacity in hospitals settings, just less visible in every way.
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Judge the next UK budget by how much it improves the purchasing power of the bottom 50%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
Rachel Reeves’ budget must reduce inequalities and increase spending capacity of the masses
This is how to secure sustained economic growth
leftfootforward.org
October 19, 2025 at 8:13 AM
Judge the next UK budget by how much it improves the purchasing power of the bottom 50%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.
Can't revive economy without that.
16m live in poverty. 34% of universal credit claimants are in work. Millions rely on food banks.
Bottom 50% of population has 5% of wealth; the bottom fifth has only 0.5%.