@colmjkd.bsky.social
Disability advocate, Founder and former CEO of Spinal Injuries Ireland. Martial arts instructor. Life and Business Coach. UNESCO speaker on martial arts.
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The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
2 in 5 arrested over last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse
Police data indicates overlaps between public violent disorder and domestic violence and abuse
www.theguardian.com
July 26, 2025 at 12:02 PM
The far right terrorising asylum seekers in hotels love to spread the lie they’re worried about the risk of sexual assault. But here’s the truth: Two in five men arrested for last summer’s riots had been reported for domestic abuse. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Today is 3 months since Who Wants Normal? was published. Thanks so much to everyone who’s bought a copy, left a review, or shared a favourite quote on socials.
As the news cycle has become more toxic, this is a book that says disabled people are here, worthy and rather glorious, actually.
As the news cycle has become more toxic, this is a book that says disabled people are here, worthy and rather glorious, actually.
July 17, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Today is 3 months since Who Wants Normal? was published. Thanks so much to everyone who’s bought a copy, left a review, or shared a favourite quote on socials.
As the news cycle has become more toxic, this is a book that says disabled people are here, worthy and rather glorious, actually.
As the news cycle has become more toxic, this is a book that says disabled people are here, worthy and rather glorious, actually.
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Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
July 6, 2025 at 11:18 AM
Watch @oliviablakemp.bsky.social’s brutal takedown of driven grouse shooting in just 90 seconds from last weeks debate in Parliament.
@wildjustice.bsky.social
@wildjustice.bsky.social
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The damage Trump's budget bill will cause is almost impossible to comprehend. Republicans must pay the price for it at the ballot box. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
July 3, 2025 at 11:15 PM
The damage Trump's budget bill will cause is almost impossible to comprehend. Republicans must pay the price for it at the ballot box. [Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
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Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
July 1, 2025 at 7:54 PM
Tonight’s huge climbdown is testament to the countless disabled people who have tirelessly fought these cuts. Yes, UC was a loss and there’s more to do on PIP, but let’s not underplay this: a government with a vast majority has been forced to u-turn. Because of the disabled community.
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Disabled people’s orgs have told the Guardian that plans to exempt only existing claimants from the cuts will create a “two-tier” benefit system that “condemns” future disabled people to poverty. As one said, “Is it even legal?”
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My story on the fallout: 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 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Disabled people’s orgs have told the Guardian that plans to exempt only existing claimants from the cuts will create a “two-tier” benefit system that “condemns” future disabled people to poverty. As one said, “Is it even legal?”
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My story on the fallout: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not.
[Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
[Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
June 13, 2025 at 7:15 PM
The man who launched an attempted coup on the United States in 2020 and instigated an insurrection at the Capitol that resulted in five deaths now claims that people in Los Angeles are launching an insurrection. They’re not.
[Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
[Cartoon by Adam Zyglis]
Looking in from outside. It is hard to put in words how shocked and disturbed I am at what’s happening in the USA. My question is. Surely there Republicans, who are not comfortable with what Trump and his henchmen are doing to their country and citizens.
June 12, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Looking in from outside. It is hard to put in words how shocked and disturbed I am at what’s happening in the USA. My question is. Surely there Republicans, who are not comfortable with what Trump and his henchmen are doing to their country and citizens.
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Sukhjot Singh
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
June 4, 2025 at 10:28 PM
Sukhjot Singh
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
"This fierce peregrine mom was patrolling her territory to provide a safe airspace for her newly fledged babies. I thought she was going to attack a few gulls that flew close, but she decided to take a hard right and turn around, offering a rare face-to-face moment with the camera."
A great read
"Here’s what the far-right figured out that the rest of us missed: they don’t need to create problems to exploit them. They can just harvest them.
Take real systemic failures and reframe them into something simpler, more weaponisable: it’s the fault of them." eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu...
Take real systemic failures and reframe them into something simpler, more weaponisable: it’s the fault of them." eastangliabylines.co.uk/lifestyle/cu...
What the Liverpool incident tells us about the new culture war
Forty-seven people were injured. The facts were clear. But the far-right had already written the script
eastangliabylines.co.uk
May 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
A great read
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More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people, including Liz Carr, Ruth Madeley and Rosie Jones, urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.
My exclusive in today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My exclusive in today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts
Exclusive: More than 100 people including Liz Carr and Rosie Jones sign letter criticising Pip and universal credit changes
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 6:46 PM
More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people, including Liz Carr, Ruth Madeley and Rosie Jones, urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.
My exclusive in today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My exclusive in today’s Guardian: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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“I’m in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action.”
A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour is taking the Pip – and disabled people have had enough | Cherylee Houston
I am in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action, says actor Cherylee Houston
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 9:44 AM
“I’m in tears reading the stories of what might happen if these further cuts go ahead, which is why I’ve joined forces with others to demand action.”
A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A strong piece by Cherylee Houston MBE on why she and fellow disabled celebs have launched #TakingthePIP. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.
My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Disabled celebrities urge Keir Starmer to scrap ‘inhumane’ benefit cuts
Exclusive: More than 100 people including Liz Carr and Rosie Jones sign letter criticising Pip and universal credit changes
www.theguardian.com
May 27, 2025 at 7:11 AM
More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people urge the Prime Minister to abandon the “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.
My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My exclusive: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Wheelchair user misses train and branded ‘rude’ by station staff after they refused to get ramp
Wheelchair user misses train and branded ‘rude’ by station staff
The 26-year-old PhD student said she faces ‘access roulette’ on public transport and has been forgotten about on trains and left without a ramp when disembarking
www.independent.co.uk
May 22, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Wheelchair user misses train and branded ‘rude’ by station staff after they refused to get ramp
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It was such a pleasure to speak to Enable magazine for their May/June issue.
We chatted about why I wrote Who Wants Normal?, my tips on challenging inequality, and finding hope in the future during shitstorm times.
On newsstands now.
We chatted about why I wrote Who Wants Normal?, my tips on challenging inequality, and finding hope in the future during shitstorm times.
On newsstands now.
May 20, 2025 at 8:55 AM
It was such a pleasure to speak to Enable magazine for their May/June issue.
We chatted about why I wrote Who Wants Normal?, my tips on challenging inequality, and finding hope in the future during shitstorm times.
On newsstands now.
We chatted about why I wrote Who Wants Normal?, my tips on challenging inequality, and finding hope in the future during shitstorm times.
On newsstands now.
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I had a great chat with @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social on LBC today about Who Wants Normal? and the upcoming disability benefits cut vote.
You can catch up on the LBC app. It’s 2 hours 5 minutes in.
You can catch up on the LBC app. It’s 2 hours 5 minutes in.
May 14, 2025 at 7:20 PM
I had a great chat with @shelaghfogarty.bsky.social on LBC today about Who Wants Normal? and the upcoming disability benefits cut vote.
You can catch up on the LBC app. It’s 2 hours 5 minutes in.
You can catch up on the LBC app. It’s 2 hours 5 minutes in.
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So many layers of corruption.
May 12, 2025 at 5:26 PM
So many layers of corruption.
Powerful
May 12, 2025 at 10:41 AM
Powerful
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PSA: You can win one of 5 copies of Who Wants Normal? if you go over now to Instagr*m and Unhidden’s page.
It’s part of our goal to partner with disabled-led businesses whilst gifting the book to those shut off from new hardbacks. Plus you get adaptive clothes vouchers? Chic.
It’s part of our goal to partner with disabled-led businesses whilst gifting the book to those shut off from new hardbacks. Plus you get adaptive clothes vouchers? Chic.
May 11, 2025 at 6:04 PM
PSA: You can win one of 5 copies of Who Wants Normal? if you go over now to Instagr*m and Unhidden’s page.
It’s part of our goal to partner with disabled-led businesses whilst gifting the book to those shut off from new hardbacks. Plus you get adaptive clothes vouchers? Chic.
It’s part of our goal to partner with disabled-led businesses whilst gifting the book to those shut off from new hardbacks. Plus you get adaptive clothes vouchers? Chic.
