Louise Vale
@louise-virtual.bsky.social
#LongCovid advocacy
(Caught by the First Wave 🌊 March 2020)
Health, economics, politics, FR>EN 🇪🇺
(Caught by the First Wave 🌊 March 2020)
Health, economics, politics, FR>EN 🇪🇺
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On 28 November 2025, @bhattmurphy.bsky.social wrote to the Cabinet Office and the DHSC on behalf of the Long Covid Groups.
Find out what asked of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social here:
www.longcovidkids.org/post/letter-...
#LongCovid #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #Christmas
Find out what asked of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social here:
www.longcovidkids.org/post/letter-...
#LongCovid #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #Christmas
Letter to the Cabinet Office & DHSC | 28th November 2025 | Long Covid Groups
On 28 November 2025, Bhatt Murphy wrote to the Cabinet Office and the Department of Health and Social Care (DHSC). In our letter, we invite the Prime Minister to make a statement in the House of Commo...
www.longcovidkids.org
December 3, 2025 at 8:19 PM
On 28 November 2025, @bhattmurphy.bsky.social wrote to the Cabinet Office and the DHSC on behalf of the Long Covid Groups.
Find out what asked of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social here:
www.longcovidkids.org/post/letter-...
#LongCovid #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #Christmas
Find out what asked of @10dowingstreet.bsky.social here:
www.longcovidkids.org/post/letter-...
#LongCovid #CovidInquiry #LongCovidKids #Christmas
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‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report
‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report
Dysfunctional DWP failed to notify some carers that they were accruing enormous debt for years, Liz Sayce’s damning report reveals
www.theguardian.com
November 25, 2025 at 10:05 PM
‘Outdated and ever less fit for purpose’: five takeaways from the carer’s allowance report
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“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer
observer.co.uk
November 23, 2025 at 10:02 AM
“Have they given up? Are they just deciding to build up herd immunity by watching us die? The government has given up, hasn’t it? They are throwing us into the slaughterhouse.”
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
It’s not hindsight - we knew this at the time @drrachelclarke.com writes:
observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
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Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
He tries to play the stoic in this look at the incredible changes to disabled peoples’ lives that tech could bring. But the radical benefits of one piece of kit leave him visibly moved
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Chris McCausland: Seeing into the Future review – the comic just can’t hide his emotion in this mind-blowing show
The @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social Module 2 report has confirmed failures to anticipate or address the #LongCovid health crisis.
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
Long Covid Support
To learn more visit LongCovid.org
www.longcovid.org
November 23, 2025 at 4:29 PM
The @ukcovid-19inquiry.bsky.social Module 2 report has confirmed failures to anticipate or address the #LongCovid health crisis.
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
www.longcovid.org/impact/news/...
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has reported on the widespread impacts of the pandemic on children and young people.
/1 Today the Inquiry has published a groundbreaking report📄based upon its Children and Young People Voices research project.
Find out more 👇
📰 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/news/life-ch...
Find out more 👇
📰 covid19.public-inquiry.uk/news/life-ch...
September 15, 2025 at 5:53 PM
The UK Covid-19 Inquiry has reported on the widespread impacts of the pandemic on children and young people.
Help children concentrate at school.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/gi...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/gi...
Support a Phone Free Education
I've joined Esther Ghey's new campaign – Phone Free Education. She's campaigning for the government to ensure all children have access to a phone free education. Will you join us? Sign the open letter...
actionnetwork.org
September 3, 2025 at 7:40 AM
Help children concentrate at school.
actionnetwork.org/petitions/gi...
actionnetwork.org/petitions/gi...
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Clinically Vulnerable people will be denied Covid vaccines this autumn despite continued risks.
The UK is cutting back and is an international outlier.
Please support our petition!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The UK is cutting back and is an international outlier.
Please support our petition!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters
'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care home residents and those with severely weakened immune systems.
petition.parliament.uk
September 2, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Clinically Vulnerable people will be denied Covid vaccines this autumn despite continued risks.
The UK is cutting back and is an international outlier.
Please support our petition!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
The UK is cutting back and is an international outlier.
Please support our petition!
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
Petition to fund Covid boosters for all clinically vulnerable people.
After signing, don’t forget to confirm your email ...or your signature won’t count!
Every signature matters.
Please share widely.
Lives depend on it.
The next step is equally important - see below
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
2/ #KeepCovidBoosters
Every signature matters.
Please share widely.
Lives depend on it.
The next step is equally important - see below
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
2/ #KeepCovidBoosters
Petition: Fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people – keep covid boosters
'Protect the NHS' and 'Save Lives' by continuing to fund NHS COVID boosters for Clinically Vulnerable people, including most previously shielded as CEV, rather than limiting them to over-75s, care home residents and those with severely weakened immune systems.
petition.parliament.uk
August 27, 2025 at 8:41 PM
Petition to fund Covid boosters for all clinically vulnerable people.
Open letter to Sir Stephen Timms from a coalition of chatities in advance of his review of disability benefits:
www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/new...
www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/new...
Co-Production and the PIP Review
Joint Open Letter to Stephen Timms: Charity coalition urges government to honour promised co-production of disability benefits review.
www.turn2us.org.uk
August 26, 2025 at 12:37 PM
Open letter to Sir Stephen Timms from a coalition of chatities in advance of his review of disability benefits:
www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/new...
www.turn2us.org.uk/about-us/new...
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August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing. #WITmonth
Women in Translation #WIT #Read_WIT
Women in Translation playlist. Translations of women authors read by their literary translators. #Women #WIT #WITMonth #womenintranslation #womenwriters #IWD...
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August 2, 2025 at 11:00 AM
August is Women in Translation Month! Celebrate the work of the world's best female writers, read by the incredibly talented women (and men) who translate them, with our dedicated playlist--currently 323 videos strong (!!!) and always growing. #WITmonth
Poetry By Heart, the movie! For school teachers and pupils. #poetry #poetryinschools #literatureinschool
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July 12, 2025 at 9:39 AM
Poetry By Heart, the movie! For school teachers and pupils. #poetry #poetryinschools #literatureinschool
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Rachel Reeves hints at tax rises in autumn.
The bottom 20% pay a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. This must change.
Tax capital gains and dividends at same rate as wages, charge them NIC too.
Levy wealth tax, financial transactions tax, windfall tax on profiteers.
The bottom 20% pay a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. This must change.
Tax capital gains and dividends at same rate as wages, charge them NIC too.
Levy wealth tax, financial transactions tax, windfall tax on profiteers.
Rachel Reeves hints at tax rises in autumn budget after welfare bill U-turn
Initially aimed at saving £5.5bn, the watered-down welfare bill now leaves the government with an estimated £5.5bn black hole - close to breaching the chancellor's fiscal rules set out last year.
news.sky.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:18 PM
Rachel Reeves hints at tax rises in autumn.
The bottom 20% pay a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. This must change.
Tax capital gains and dividends at same rate as wages, charge them NIC too.
Levy wealth tax, financial transactions tax, windfall tax on profiteers.
The bottom 20% pay a higher proportion of income in taxes than the richest 20%. This must change.
Tax capital gains and dividends at same rate as wages, charge them NIC too.
Levy wealth tax, financial transactions tax, windfall tax on profiteers.
www.wimbledon.com
July 5, 2025 at 4:01 PM
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We welcome that the Government has recognised the damaging effect of the proposed #PIP cuts. But serious cuts to #UC for #Disabled people are still there. Ministers should drop them too.
The Government now has an opportunity to fully re-think its approach and work with Disabled people.
The Government now has an opportunity to fully re-think its approach and work with Disabled people.
July 1, 2025 at 8:08 PM
For everyone you know in the USA.
Why don’t more people care Medicaid will be cut? Maybe because they don’t know they’re on it…
youtube.com/shorts/67HnV...
youtube.com/shorts/67HnV...
Is Your Heath Insurance Getting Cut?!
YouTube video by PoliticsGirl
youtube.com
June 30, 2025 at 3:51 PM
For everyone you know in the USA.
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A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers.
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-fin...
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-fin...
Minister finally admits that working-age benefits spending is stable, despite months of ‘spiralling’ claims
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers. Sir Ste…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:50 AM
A minister has finally admitted that spending on working-age benefits is stable, and is not spiralling out of control, despite months of claims from his own department and fellow ministers.
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-fin...
#TakingThePIP #WelfareNotWarfare
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/minister-fin...
Yes, the proposals are fundamentally flawed and need to be scrapped, so we can start again with a blank piece of paper and proper consultation. Thank you @simonforstroud.bsky.social
Starmer still facing Labour welfare anger over fears of ‘two-tier’ system
Starmer still facing Labour welfare anger over fears of ‘two-tier’ system
Rebel MPs will attempt to lay a new amendment on Monday giving colleagues a chance to delay bill despite No 10 concessions
Keir Starmer is battling to stem the revolt over his cuts to disability benefits, with about 50 Labour MPs concerned the concessions will create a “two-tier” system where existing and newly disabled people are treated differently.
Senior government sources insisted things were “moving in the right direction” for No 10, with the whips calling round backbenchers to persuade them to get behind the bill on Tuesday. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Yes, the proposals are fundamentally flawed and need to be scrapped, so we can start again with a blank piece of paper and proper consultation. Thank you @simonforstroud.bsky.social
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💙📚This quote is from the 'Careers' chapter in 'Who Wants Normal?' by @francesryan.bsky.social
Yet, still we see the Labour government demonising disabled people with these punitive #disabilitycuts
Keep up the pressure by emailing your MP
Template letter👇
action.trussell.org.uk/your-mp-must...
Yet, still we see the Labour government demonising disabled people with these punitive #disabilitycuts
Keep up the pressure by emailing your MP
Template letter👇
action.trussell.org.uk/your-mp-must...
June 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
💙📚This quote is from the 'Careers' chapter in 'Who Wants Normal?' by @francesryan.bsky.social
Yet, still we see the Labour government demonising disabled people with these punitive #disabilitycuts
Keep up the pressure by emailing your MP
Template letter👇
action.trussell.org.uk/your-mp-must...
Yet, still we see the Labour government demonising disabled people with these punitive #disabilitycuts
Keep up the pressure by emailing your MP
Template letter👇
action.trussell.org.uk/your-mp-must...
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Nicola Jennings on Keir Starmer’s spending choices – cartoon
Nicola Jennings on Keir Starmer’s spending choices – cartoon
The UK is buying 12 F-35A jets capable of carrying nuclear bombs
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:03 PM
Nicola Jennings on Keir Starmer’s spending choices – cartoon
Thank you, Richard, and all other Labour rebels. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
Even with the changes, the Disability Cuts Bill will see nearly half a million disabled people denied PIP over the next 4 years.
MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.
I'm voting against the Bill.
MPs shouldn't vote to cut support for disabled people who'll need help cutting up food, washing or going to the toilet.
I'm voting against the Bill.
June 27, 2025 at 12:25 PM
Thank you, Richard, and all other Labour rebels. @teamlabouruk.bsky.social
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Offering to involve Disabled people in shaping the cuts will do nothing to change their unacceptability.
Our opposition to the bill remains & we will be delivering our letter to No 10 on Monday.
Add your name to our letter & we will take you with us.👉 buff.ly/ZwfqrpL
Our opposition to the bill remains & we will be delivering our letter to No 10 on Monday.
Add your name to our letter & we will take you with us.👉 buff.ly/ZwfqrpL
June 27, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Offering to involve Disabled people in shaping the cuts will do nothing to change their unacceptability.
Our opposition to the bill remains & we will be delivering our letter to No 10 on Monday.
Add your name to our letter & we will take you with us.👉 buff.ly/ZwfqrpL
Our opposition to the bill remains & we will be delivering our letter to No 10 on Monday.
Add your name to our letter & we will take you with us.👉 buff.ly/ZwfqrpL
On the one day I did get out of New Street Station and go into Birmingham, I found it had a beautiful art gallery. I like the friendly accent.
We have devised New Street Station so as to deter the likes of Goodwin from ever getting off the train.
And we drop the accents when no strangers are listening.
And we drop the accents when no strangers are listening.
June 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
On the one day I did get out of New Street Station and go into Birmingham, I found it had a beautiful art gallery. I like the friendly accent.
Call-out for more kindness in the world.
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Last week we had parade of garage sales in our community where an eight-year-old daughter sold lemonade in a unique way
she had a special price list:
50 cents for grown-ups, 25 cents for kids, free...
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June 27, 2025 at 9:20 AM
Call-out for more kindness in the world.
substack.com/@darshakrana...
substack.com/@darshakrana...