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A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
Whether directly or indirectly, inflammatory anti-migrant rhetoric harms us all
Foreign medics shunning NHS because of anti-migrant rhetoric, says top doctor
Exclusive: UK now an ‘unwelcoming, racist’ country for overseas health workers, according to medical colleges leader
www.theguardian.com
December 26, 2025 at 9:28 PM
ritb.bsky.social
Abolish the DWP

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...
DWP orders dying dad to attend appointment while in hospital on oxygen
Marek Marzec, 48, was told by the DWP that his entitlement to benefits “may be affected” if he did not attend an appointment in person without “good reason”
www.birminghammail.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 7:21 PM
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jgcarpenter.com
The idea that AI can “detoxify” people reframes emotional overwhelm as a software problem, and it treats loneliness and strain as things to route into a machine rather than conditions that require support, care, and structural repair. 1/*
December 22, 2025 at 7:23 PM
ritb.bsky.social
“Days after the publication of the review, the DWP’s top civil servant in charge of carers’ allowance, Neil Couling, said carers themselves were at fault for the decade-long failures.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Pressure grows on DWP over ‘misleading’ response to carer’s allowance scandal
Senior officials face criticism after review found systemic failings plunged hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers into debt
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 4:22 PM
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courtneybuckler.bsky.social
My favourite thing about this post is a for-profit company likening their surveillance tech to the invention of stethoscopes or safety equipment in Formula 1 cars. "Over time, the radical becomes reasonable", they say. 1/2
December 18, 2025 at 2:00 PM
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laurajerramp.bsky.social
So the Government:

Cuts disability benefits.

Cuts practical support at work (the ‘access to work scheme’).

Reduces targets for accessible homes.

And now dismisses calls to improve wheelchair services.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/d...
December 20, 2025 at 11:01 AM
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stopfundinghate.bsky.social
Many Majestic Wine customers will be disappointed to see their comments about their advertising with GB News.

Supporting free speech - a basic human right that we all deserve - doesn't entail any obligation to fund media that fuel division & to imply otherwise would be misleading... /1
mrgav.bsky.social mrgav.bsky.social @mrgav.bsky.social · 10d
Took them over a week but they’ve finally replied.
December 20, 2025 at 2:44 PM
ritb.bsky.social
In a crowded field, Richard Tice is one of the most vile politicians in this country

www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Tice can call them whatever he likes, but he doesn't give a fuck about disabled kids
Shame on me if you fool me Tice. He can change branding however he likes, his record shows the same thing: contempt for disabled children
www.thecanary.co
December 18, 2025 at 5:38 PM
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zoegrunewald.bsky.social
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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amnestyuk.bsky.social
It is shocking that people have been pushed to take such serious action just to be heard.

These events did not happen by accident. They are the result of the government misusing anti-terror laws.
Qesser Zuhrah, Palestine Action activist on hunger strike, hospitalised Photo of a banner hanging over a bridge which says "support the hunger strikers"
December 17, 2025 at 4:54 PM
ritb.bsky.social
Lammy’s just going to let those hunger strikers die isn’t he?
December 17, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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pennypriest.bsky.social
All the talk about diagnosis is a convenient way for politicians to avoid addressing the real structural issues which need dealing with, in order to address the mental health of the nation.
December 17, 2025 at 10:29 AM
ritb.bsky.social
True that….

theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
What looks like ‘overdiagnosis’ is really a system struggling to provide continuous care
Diagnosis rates are rising because the NHS pathway is overwhelmed and fragmented, not because distress is being exaggerated.
theconversation.com
December 16, 2025 at 8:33 PM
ritb.bsky.social
Patients who experience a sudden dental crisis such as a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain are meant to be able to get help from their dentist or by calling NHS 111…research by Healthwatch England shows…people in pain are unable to get an appointment

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People pulling own teeth due to lack of urgent NHS dental care in England, watchdog finds
Emergency help should be available, but some being forced to travel 100 miles or go private, says Healthwatch England
www.theguardian.com
December 16, 2025 at 3:00 AM
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robinince.bsky.social
Very sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
This is the saddest day of my professional life. Today is not only the final recording of the latest series of The Infinite Monkey Cage, it is my last ever Monkey Cage. I never thought that I would have to leave the show. I always imagined going on until | dropped dead under the studio lights due to a brain aneurysm caused by my final attempt to understand notions of quantum gravity or the shock of being told about fly maggot infestations in the sacks of macaque monkeys. I resigned in September, after sixteen years of dedication to the show, A show that I named and helped develop over all those years. Unfortunately, my opinions outside the BBC have been considered problematic for sometime, whether it has been voicing support for the trans community, criticism of Donald Trump, numerous other outlandish opinions, including once gently criticising Stephen Fry. These things were considered to conflict with being a freelance BBC science presenter In a recent meeting where BBC Studio executives again voiced problems with me, I realised my choices. Obedience and being quieter to remain making Monkey Cage, or 'Resign and have the freedom to speak out against what I believe are injustices'. • I chose the latter. It broke my heart. I love this show and I love the audience, and it is because of the audience in particular, that this decision was so difficult to make. I kept thinking about all the extremist voices promoting hate and division. They are being given so many platforms, while voices that represent kindness, open mindedness, empathy seem to be scarcer and scarcer. I felt I couldn't pamper myself with the luxury of silence. One of my many privileges is that I am able to resign and I can speak out even if it is to the detriment of my career. I have thought a lot about my heroes, Sinead O Connor, James Baldwin, Audre Lorde, and so many more. I think of Sinead's words, "the job of an artist is to be themselves at any cost". James Baldwin said prejudice was really just a word for cowardice. Audre Lorde, viewing her life, wrote that her only regrets were her silences. I think of my father as I resign, he brought me up to believe in fairness , justice and kindness. Though my heart is broken, it is also full of fire. I apologise to our incredible listeners for my departure, your love of the show means a great deal. I am so sorry to let you down. I hope that you can understand my reasoning. I have to accept that I am not what the current BBC expects of their freelance presenters. Despite this I should add that I have always worked far more than my contracted hours to try and ensure the show was always the best it could be, as well as making myself accessible and responsive to the audience wherever and whenever I met them. Every night, we have recorded, I have been filled with determination to make the best show possible. This was not "just a job" I hope that with my departure I can be a better ally to the LGBTQ community, to the neurodivergent community, to activists fighting against those who aim to brutalise society, to those currently in prison on hunger strike, and to all those who fight for a more inclusive world. From many conversations, I know there are many Monkey Cage listeners who support these communities and activists too. The strawberry is dead. Long live the strawberry. B
December 13, 2025 at 12:02 AM
ritb.bsky.social
The abuse of mental health patients has been standard practice in psychiatric settings for decades now. It will only stop when someone in a position to do something about it takes it seriously & considers all patients in whatever settings as worthy of care & compassion

www.bbc.com/news/article...
Northampton hospital staff 'caught on CCTV assaulting patients'
The CQC expresses "extreme concern" over abuse allegations at a Northampton mental health hospital.
www.bbc.com
December 12, 2025 at 7:48 PM
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davidwearing.bsky.social
Impunity is an enabler of criminality. And again, I suggest that we spend some time reflecting on the radicalising effect it must have on British politicians to be so deeply and directly complicit in such monstrous, racist crimes. These people have crossed a threshold into a truly dark place.
December 12, 2025 at 7:28 AM
ritb.bsky.social
The work&pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support,3 days after launching a child povertystrategy which warned that more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”.”

www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
McFadden brags about cutting disability benefits, just as his own strategy warns of ‘deep material poverty’
The work and pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support, three days after launching a child poverty strategy which warned that more than a million children in families w…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
December 11, 2025 at 7:36 PM
ritb.bsky.social
“…the report shows how the top 10% own 75% of all global wealth…the ultra-rich 0.001% control three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.”

www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
‘The 0.001%’: a quick visual breakdown of the world’s wealthiest people
About 56,000 people control three times as much wealth as half of humanity. Here’s one way to illustrate that
www.theguardian.com
December 11, 2025 at 3:11 AM
ritb.bsky.social
Elon Musk has been posting similar recently. It’s increasingly clear that the endgame for these wealth-hoarding psychopaths is a wordwide fascist oligarchy where dissent isn’t tolerated and freedom of speech only extends to agreeing with them.

www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
Palantir co-founder calls for public hangings to show ‘masculine leadership’
‘If I’m in charge later, we won’t just have a three strikes law. We will quickly try and hang men after three violent crimes,’ Lonsdale wrote on X
www.independent.co.uk
December 9, 2025 at 5:54 PM
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robinince.bsky.social
As the trans community have known for a while now - the definition of activist is someone who dares to state they exist
HADLEY FREEMAN Wes Streeting must stand up to the ADHD activists I can help with the minister's review: some people are just confused by life Hadley Freeman
December 8, 2025 at 8:18 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
Critics of disability benefits largely frame it as a concern for government spending but beneath it, there’s often a clear prejudice: disabled people should have miserable little lives (unlike hardworking, normal people).
December 8, 2025 at 8:14 PM
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arkenor.bsky.social
Boris Johnson regrets that so many disabled people managed to survive his Covid response.
flyingrodent.bsky.social flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 21d
A constant blazing terror that somewhere, somebody might be getting a free cheese sandwich. Or indeed brief use of a wheelchair.
The vexatious imbecile Johnson: What the ETTING in the off a plane US the other day, I noticed a lot of people waiting at the door. They were all tabarded airport staff, and they had wheelchairs. all That's strange, I thought. It looked as touentrev mysterious rise in the numbers As we went up the jet bridge there were more and more wheelchairs, like the lobby of a geriatric hospital. wondered varuey aloud to one or ce alport stan. wny do so many people seem to require this type of assistance these days? It's just i those things, ne of passensers are asking for saem Some flights - he mentioned Toronto to Miam! wheelchair use. Imost 40 per It seemed like ar ucure. but I didn't the winter migration, of flocks of Cana-plane for a burst of Plorida sunshine demanding wheelchairs to get to their They think they are being taken for mugs plane tells us months later. I thought no more about the phenomenon. Apparently, it is everywhere. There is about the ever in insatiable popular hunger, at almost airlines are starting to get fed up. Tre spiralling costof many or their passengers are incapable of getting on to the plane using their own two feet. They think they are being taken for and that at least some of these the welfare state
December 9, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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rickburgess.bsky.social
Some holiday reading (PDF is free ,book is a gift idea)

Access to Social Justice
Effective Remedies for Social Rights
Authors: Katie Boyle, Diana Camps, Kirstie Ken English, Jo Edson Ferrie, Aidan Flegg, and Gaurav Mukherjee
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com/monobook-oa/...
bristoluniversitypressdigital.com
December 9, 2025 at 1:50 PM
ritb.bsky.social
“The poorest people in England are being denied access to social housing owing to their low income, in a “catch-22” situation that is pushing more people into homelessness, research has found.”

www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
People on lowest incomes being denied access to social housing, research finds
Benefit claimants having applications denied for being deemed too risky by housing associations, says Crisis
www.theguardian.com
December 9, 2025 at 2:25 PM