@julie7.bsky.social
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Over the last year, myths about the Motability scheme have spread online and in the right wing media. Now, some of it is government policy.
In today’s Guardian, I set about finding the facts and why the idea of “free cars for the disabled” has taken hold. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In today’s Guardian, I set about finding the facts and why the idea of “free cars for the disabled” has taken hold. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour | Frances Ryan
Starmer’s ailing government is happy to pursue ideas like cutting Motability, but all ministers will do is damage lives and themselves, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Over the last year, myths about the Motability scheme have spread online and in the right wing media. Now, some of it is government policy.
In today’s Guardian, I set about finding the facts and why the idea of “free cars for the disabled” has taken hold. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
In today’s Guardian, I set about finding the facts and why the idea of “free cars for the disabled” has taken hold. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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It’s going to make arresting people in Northern Ireland an interesting prospect!
December 8, 2025 at 10:58 PM
It’s going to make arresting people in Northern Ireland an interesting prospect!
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Also, I fucking love this, are Bromley Tech on this week?
December 8, 2025 at 9:43 PM
Also, I fucking love this, are Bromley Tech on this week?
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Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!
This isn’t just the BBC censoring an opinion, as objectionable as that would be. This is the BBC censoring an historical fact. There is a mountain of evidence to back up this claim.
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 28, 2025 at 8:20 AM
Reupping this as BBC journalists now can’t even quote the censored statement of fact. This is appalling. Facts matter! Evidence matters! This isn’t even an opinion!
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Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
November 23, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Children. Teens. Pregnant women. Victims of domestic violence. Anyone from an ethic minority. Care home residents. People with disabilities. The list of overlooked vulnerable groups goes on & on.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
The lesson is to build processes that include them next time.
Not to airbrush away 250,000 Covid dead.
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NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The Great AI Bubble
Yes, it's a bubble. And yes, it's going to burst.
open.substack.com
November 16, 2025 at 11:35 AM
NEW: Welcome to the Great AI Bubble. Yes, it’s here. And yes, it’s going to burst.
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
It’s also got way more in common with the Epstein scandal than you really want to know.
open.substack.com/pub/broligar...
The issue isn’t whether Maccabi Tel Aviv fans should be at the Villa game, it’s that Maccabi Tel Aviv have no business being in UEFA competitions.
October 17, 2025 at 6:57 PM
The issue isn’t whether Maccabi Tel Aviv fans should be at the Villa game, it’s that Maccabi Tel Aviv have no business being in UEFA competitions.
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Bourgeois nativists spend a lot of time pretending their opposition to immigration is about working-class jobs/wages, but show them a society where all the real work is done by foreign guestworkers with fuck all rights and they're like "omg this is paradise"
UAE has no democratically elected institutions, no free speech and an appalling human rights record.
Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP
No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.
But here's Tice calling us decadent
Its economy functions on completely different metrics to the ours & ranks well below us for GDP
No serious person would ever think that we should emulate it.
But here's Tice calling us decadent
October 8, 2025 at 3:28 PM
Bourgeois nativists spend a lot of time pretending their opposition to immigration is about working-class jobs/wages, but show them a society where all the real work is done by foreign guestworkers with fuck all rights and they're like "omg this is paradise"
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One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
October 1, 2025 at 6:13 PM
One of my favorite anecdotes from THE PREHISTORY OF THE FAR SIDE: "That doesn't sound like the Jane Goodall we know."
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This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
September 28, 2025 at 4:46 PM
This tweet has been doing the rounds on Twitter now that Nathan Gill has pleaded guilty.
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
If only someone had tried to investigate UKIP & Russian interference 🧐
There’s another timeline where the Guardian supported me, doubled down on the investigation & I look 5 years younger ..
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If Mr. Johnson knows the assassin's identity and what their motivation was, then maybe he should contact the FBI.
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
September 11, 2025 at 10:49 AM
If Mr. Johnson knows the assassin's identity and what their motivation was, then maybe he should contact the FBI.
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
If he doesn't, then perhaps he should shut up rather than stirring up fear and loathing.
Grossly irresponsible
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On welfare cuts, Labour's Debbie Abrahams MP at the Liaison Committee tells the PM to his face: "This was poor legislation, designed to save money...by cutting support to disabled people.
"It was so far removed from Labour values of fairness, social justice, and decency...It made me feel ashamed."
"It was so far removed from Labour values of fairness, social justice, and decency...It made me feel ashamed."
July 21, 2025 at 2:03 PM
On welfare cuts, Labour's Debbie Abrahams MP at the Liaison Committee tells the PM to his face: "This was poor legislation, designed to save money...by cutting support to disabled people.
"It was so far removed from Labour values of fairness, social justice, and decency...It made me feel ashamed."
"It was so far removed from Labour values of fairness, social justice, and decency...It made me feel ashamed."
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Pundits are framing the welfare bill chaos as Downing Street’s failure to communicate the moral case for cuts - but there is no moral case. That’s the problem. These plans are staggering assaults on support that won’t help disabled people into work. No one can sell that.
June 30, 2025 at 9:19 AM
Pundits are framing the welfare bill chaos as Downing Street’s failure to communicate the moral case for cuts - but there is no moral case. That’s the problem. These plans are staggering assaults on support that won’t help disabled people into work. No one can sell that.
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Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’
Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’
Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:14 PM
Disabled Labour MP says welfare U-turn would create ‘unethical two-tier system’
Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Olivia Blake dismisses Starmer’s welfare bill changes as ‘plucked from the air’ and urges rebels to stand firm
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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“These offers of concessions are a glimpse into the window of the soul of the government ; that they think people are protesting these cuts for their own gain not the wellbeing of all disabled people,” says Cherylee Houston”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
‘Worse than anything under the Tories’: changes to welfare bill anger disability campaigners
Government concessions fail to appease disabled people’s groups, concerned that disabled people in the future will be condemned to poverty
www.theguardian.com
June 28, 2025 at 5:34 PM
“These offers of concessions are a glimpse into the window of the soul of the government ; that they think people are protesting these cuts for their own gain not the wellbeing of all disabled people,” says Cherylee Houston”
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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In light of Labour's new plans to deny Personal Independence Payments to new claimants:
June 27, 2025 at 5:56 AM
In light of Labour's new plans to deny Personal Independence Payments to new claimants:
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In the coming weeks a bill will go through Parliament where MPs will vote on proposed cuts to disabled people’s social security
An analysis by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows if it passes 440,000 disabled people & their families will be forced into severe hardship
Ask your MP to vote against it
An analysis by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows if it passes 440,000 disabled people & their families will be forced into severe hardship
Ask your MP to vote against it
I’m joining @trusselluk.bsky.social in calling on the government to rethink its cruel, shameful & completely irresponsible plan to cut benefits which will plunge 250,000 people, including 50,000 children into poverty - on its own impact analysis
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
This is how you can help
youtu.be/XrX4dF3wqt0?...
I’m joining Trussell in calling on the Gov’t to rethink its cruel & shameful plan to cut benefits
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
youtu.be
June 22, 2025 at 7:53 AM
In the coming weeks a bill will go through Parliament where MPs will vote on proposed cuts to disabled people’s social security
An analysis by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows if it passes 440,000 disabled people & their families will be forced into severe hardship
Ask your MP to vote against it
An analysis by @trusselluk.bsky.social shows if it passes 440,000 disabled people & their families will be forced into severe hardship
Ask your MP to vote against it
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You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
June 22, 2025 at 3:03 AM
You have more in common with the average Iranian citizen than you do with the people that run this country
This is an absolute disgrace. Increasing defence spending (while watching a genocide unfold in front of us & doing nothing) & cutting benefits to our most impoverished communities. Remember, this isn’t the Tories or Reform, this is the Labour Party.
June 20, 2025 at 10:19 PM
This is an absolute disgrace. Increasing defence spending (while watching a genocide unfold in front of us & doing nothing) & cutting benefits to our most impoverished communities. Remember, this isn’t the Tories or Reform, this is the Labour Party.
Labour government coming after disabled people. This a fucking disgrace & all Labour MPs should hang their heads in shame.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK benefits system could collapse if payments are not cut, Liz Kendall says
Work and pensions secretary publishes her welfare reform bill, but concessions do little to placate angry Labour MPs
www.theguardian.com
June 18, 2025 at 7:51 PM
Labour government coming after disabled people. This a fucking disgrace & all Labour MPs should hang their heads in shame.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.
June 18, 2025 at 7:29 PM
I want to see non-disabled people shouting about the disability benefit cuts. If you spoke out about trans rights, abortion rights, or migrant rights in recent weeks? Good on you! If you aren’t doing the same for disabled people, ask yourself why.
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A new Pontiff, Kammy - BUT FROM WHERE???
May 8, 2025 at 4:29 PM
A new Pontiff, Kammy - BUT FROM WHERE???
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From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?
From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?
As Netflix scraps an epic series exploring the Purple Rain star’s complexities, and Max takes down Leaving Neverland, we ask: are celebrity-endorsed docs, such as the $40m Melania Trump hagiography, the future?
www.theguardian.com
May 5, 2025 at 5:44 AM
From Prince to Michael Jackson: why are the most controversial documentaries getting canned?