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Richard Amm ♿ (Disability & Research) @richamm.bsky.social · Aug 31
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"feminist hero"
Janice Turner in the Times, "Sports edict makes Trump a feminist hero
September 18, 2026 at 9:55 AM
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Atos, Capita, Maximus, Ingeus...
Hillsborough Law should catch bosses at firms like Fujitsu and Capita | Computer Weekly
Calls for the Public Office (Accountability) Bill to be expanded to government supplier bosses.
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September 18, 2026 at 1:54 PM
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illustration featuring two dogs standing side-by-side in mud against a light orange background. On the left, a tall, smiling golden retriever with mud covering only its lower legs asks in a speech bubble, "How deep is the mud?" On the right, a much smaller grey dog covered in mud up to its chest responds in a speech bubble, "Depends who you ask". Below the illustration, handwritten orange text reads: "WE ALL GO THROUGH THINGS DIFFERENTLY".
September 18, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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www.itv.com/news/2026-09...
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September 18, 2026 at 2:00 PM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Disabled campaigners say the government’s decision to lease 29 battery-electric trains that will allow level boarding for disabled passengers at stations across the north of England is a “massive victory” for their campaign.
#LevelBoarding
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Decision to order level boarding trains is ‘massive victory’ for disabled campaigners
Disabled campaigners say the government’s decision to lease 29 battery-electric trains that will allow level boarding for disabled passengers at stations across the north of England is a “massive v…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 18, 2026 at 6:00 AM
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thepreprint.substack.com/p/the-breakp...
When the Normal Birth Campaign launched, Britain sat near its post-imperial peak. Median household income had just overtaken Germany’s. The pound bought more than two dollars. London was arguably displacing New York as the center of global finance. Then came the crash of the 2008 global financial crisis, and after it: austerity, sustained for the better part of two decades, a strategy of cutting the state down to a size the country’s frightened leaders believed it could still afford. The country never really recovered. Wages stagnated for eighteen years. Local council budgets fell by forty percent between 2010 and 2020. Birmingham, a city of over a million people, declared effective bankruptcy. Child poverty, defined as more than half a childhood spent poor, rose from fourteen percent to twenty-three. Doctors began seeing rickets and scurvy again, diseases of Victorian nutrition, in a rich European democracy. By this summer, The Atlantic could run a piece with a headline meant to shock readers: Britain’s output per person now barely exceeds Mississippi’s, America’s poorest state. And capital budgets left maternity wards operating, as one report put it, as “decrepit portacabins.” These were no longer places with the time, space, or funds to “wait and see” with childbirth. Dr. Wright told me that ringfenced maternity development funding fell from £95 million in 2024-25 to just £2 million the following year, a cut of 98 percent. Dr. Andrew Weeks, Professor of International Maternal Healthcare at the University of Liverpool, has a graph he uses in the classroom to teach students about health systems. On one axis, adverse maternal outcomes. On the other, resources put into the system.
September 17, 2026 at 7:04 PM
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Government research exposes misleading Tory and Reform calls for more face-to-face PIP assessments
#PIP #WCA #DWP #Conservatives #ReformUK
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Government research exposes misleading Tory and Reform calls for more face-to-face PIP assessments
New government research has exposed misleading calls by leading Conservative and Reform UK figures who have repeatedly claimed that assessments carried out remotely are more likely to lead to a suc…
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September 17, 2026 at 4:39 PM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Relief and tears after MPs reject assisted dying bill, as attention turns to palliative and social care
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
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Relief and tears after MPs reject assisted dying bill, as attention turns to palliative and social care
Disabled activists have spoken of their relief after MPs voted to reject a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide in England and Wales, but they say the focus must now shift to improving s…
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September 17, 2026 at 4:36 PM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Disabled MPs voted against assisted dying bill by two to one, records show
#AssistedDying #AssistedSuicide
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Disabled MPs voted against assisted dying bill by two to one, records show
Twice as many disabled MPs voted against a bill that would have legalised assisted suicide in England and Wales as those that voted in favour, according to calculations by Disability News Service. …
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September 17, 2026 at 4:37 PM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Decision to order level boarding trains is ‘massive victory’ for disabled campaigners
#LevelBoarding
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Decision to order level boarding trains is ‘massive victory’ for disabled campaigners
Disabled campaigners say the government’s decision to lease 29 battery-electric trains that will allow level boarding for disabled passengers at stations across the north of England is a “massive v…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 17, 2026 at 4:34 PM
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rickburgess.bsky.social
The backlog of social security appeals up by 63%
129,000 cases waiting to be heard

The number of social security appeals increased by 55% compared to the same quarter last year, from 30,000 to 46,000.
DLA: 187% increase
PIP: 52% increase
UC: 48% increase
Tribunal backlog soars
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
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September 17, 2026 at 10:49 AM
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rickburgess.bsky.social
Success rate for new PIP claims 34%, down from 41%

For claims that got as far as an assessment, success rate was 42%, down from 48%

DLA to PIP reassessments, success rate was up by one point to 73%
18 weeks on average for new PIP claim to be decided, up from 15 weeks a year ago
PIP success rates continue to fall, but planned award review numbers plummet
Get the benefits you're entitled to: help with personal independence payment (PIP), universal credit (UC), employment and support allowance (ESA),disability living allowance (DLA). Claims, assessments...
benefitsandwork.co.uk
September 17, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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paulapeters19.bsky.social
#TimmsReview
#PIP

📢Stop Disability Cuts
Stop The Sham Timms Review
📢Friday 25th September 2026
📢1pm
📢Meet Outside Cardiff Vale College and Business Centre
City centre campus
Dumballs Road
Cardiff CF10 5FE
On white background with black text Top of image is graphics of DPAC Cymru, Unite Community & ADFCCAD Welsh unpaid carers Title says stop disability cuts Stop the sham Timms review On right hand side is an outline of a person with long black hair shouting in a megaphone Underneath it says join our protest When? 1pm Friday 25th September 2026 Where? Outside the Cardiff Vale & College Business Centre, Dumballs Road Cardiff CF10 5FE
September 16, 2026 at 2:50 PM
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francesryan.bsky.social
“Every time I write on disability benefits etc, I’m reporting facts. But I’m also challenging the idea of what a disabled life could look like. They say we’re lucky to have money to eat. I say we’re entitled to down sangrias in Valencia.”

Me on media ableism: frances336.substack.com/p/how-to-cla...
How to clap back against the British media’s attacks on disabled people
And why the long game is sometimes the best
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September 16, 2026 at 7:28 PM
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September 16, 2026 at 4:43 AM
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September 15, 2026 at 5:24 PM
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The U.S. has entered its 13th COVID wave, with an estimated 1 in 86 Americans currently infectious. Around 567,000 new infections are occurring daily, totalling 3.69 million in a week. PMC estimates a single week at this level could result in 900–1,600 excess deaths.

www.wsws.org/en/articles/...
A line graph titled "SARS-CoV-2 New Daily Infections, Wastewater-Derived Estimates (U.S.)" from the Pandemic Mitigation Collaborative (PMC) Model, dated September 7, 2026. The graph plots estimated daily COVID-19 infections from 2020 through late 2026, with the y-axis ranging from 0 to over 5,000,000. Individual pandemic waves are numbered sequentially from 1 to 13, with a massive peak at wave 4 in early 2022. Wave 13 is shown ticking upwards at the far-right edge. A central prominent box highlights the date Sep 7, 2026, with a note stating "Preliminary estimates for the past nine days." The graph is attributed to Michael Hoerger, PhD, MSCR, MBA (@michael_hoerger) and references pmc19.com. A text box at the bottom states: "PMC identifies 12 SARS-CoV-2 waves and estimates averages of 5.4 infections per person and 14.5 months between infections."
September 14, 2026 at 4:55 AM
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basw-uk.bsky.social
📰 BASW and @swu-uk.bsky.social warn that pay cuts for social work managers in Glasgow will significantly damage services.

We raised the alarm on this matter in The Scotsman last week and have written to the Scottish Government to push back on the proposals.

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September 15, 2026 at 11:35 AM
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Jolyon Maugham KC (@jolyonmaugham)
Well, yes it was Nigel Farage who drove us down the economic cul de sac of Brexit. But it's Keir Starmer who, knowing this, nevertheless refuses to reverse the economy out.
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September 14, 2026 at 2:32 PM
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thecovidinfoguy.bsky.social
A study using PET brain scans found people with Long COVID had significantly lower levels of VMAT2, a protein involved in dopamine signalling, compared with healthy people. Reductions of 16–20% were found in brain regions involved in motivation, movement, memory, planning and apathy.
An image showing a news article headline from the publication Fortune. Structure and Content Breakdown • Top Section: Features the Fortune logo in bold black capital letters. Below it, the category tags read HEALTH and CORONAVIRUS. • Headline: The large, bold article title reads: "Long COVID's brain fog finally has a biological explanation: Dopamine loss". • Byline and Date: Includes a small circular profile picture of the author. The text reads "By Catherina Gioino", followed by a "News Editor" title and a "Follow" button. The timestamp is listed as "September 14, 2026, 2:55 PM ET". • Main Photograph: An outdoor, slightly blurred street-level shot of multiple pedestrians walking towards the camera. The individuals in the foreground are wearing surgical or cloth face masks. o On the left, a man wears glasses, a black zip-up jacket, blue jeans, and blue disposable gloves. o On the right, a woman walks alongside him wearing a blue patterned rain jacket and sunglasses. • Caption: A small caption at the very bottom reads: "Scientists found a link between damaged dopamine nerves and those experiencing symptoms of Long Covid." and credits the photo to "MATTHEW HORWOOD/GETTY IMAGES".
September 14, 2026 at 11:01 PM
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rickburgess.bsky.social
DWP paid £212,425 since July 2024 on social media, including 'disability influencers' contracted by M&C Saatchi.
dwp-answers.bsky.social DWP Answers @dwp-answers.bsky.social · 5d
A question on #DepartmentForWorkAndPensions #SocialMedia tabled by Charlie Dewhirst on 28-08-2026 has been answered by Lilian Greenwood. https://questions-statements.parliament.uk/written-questions/detail/2026-08-28/23939
September 14, 2026 at 3:37 PM
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gerryhassan.bsky.social
The simplistic dichotomy loved of media & politicians of "Welfare versus Warfare" needs unpacking. UK defence spending last exceeded welfare in 1968 falling due to Wilson's East of Aden defence cuts. Plus 60% of welfare spending is to UK pensioners. #bbclaurak @skynewsrss.bsky.social
September 13, 2026 at 9:17 AM
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johnpring.bsky.social
The former Tory minister who wants to be chancellor in a Reform UK government has been unable to provide any evidence for his repeated claim that benefit claimants with mental ill-health are “gaming the system”.
#ReformUK #Robert Jenrick #PIP
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Reform’s Jenrick ignores PIP fraud evidence and claims it is ‘common sense’ that claimants are ‘gaming the system’
The former Tory minister who wants to be chancellor in a Reform UK government has been unable to provide any evidence for his repeated claim that benefit claimants with mental ill-health are “gamin…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 12, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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smollestbunny2.bsky.social
Eugenicists designed this
rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social 💚🌏Myles🌏💚 @rainbowregionmyles.bsky.social · 8d
People with dementia are being warned that asking for MORE aged care support can trigger an algorithm that gives them LESS. Their dementia progresses, their needs increase, they ask for help, and risk losing what little help they already have. Who the fuck designed this?
#auspol
Dementia patients warned off seeking home care in case Australia’s aged care algorithm cuts funding
Exclusive: FoI documents show senior health officials were warned of concerns about assessment tool weeks after it launched
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2026 at 7:51 AM
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johnpring.bsky.social
Disabled people who receive personal independence payment overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new survey.
#PIP #TimmsReview
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PIP fails to provide support disabled people need, and assessments cause harm and distress, survey shows
Disabled people who receive personal independence payment (PIP) overwhelmingly say that the disability benefit does not cover all their additional disability-related costs, according to a new surve…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
September 12, 2026 at 6:30 AM