Paralympics under fire for #EveryBodyMoves campaign – that EXCLUDES millions of disabled people
Sally Callow is the founder of campaigning social enterprise ME Foggy Dog which raises funds for a chronic illness. Currently, ...
Tag: chronic illness
Disabled people stage SIT-IN at parliament as security BLOCK delivery of DWP exposé ‘The Department’
Disabled people staged a sit-in outside parliament on Monday 2 September. It happened after security denied them entry to the ...
Could a major DWP PIP change mean Labour is about to follow through on Tory reforms?
The article originally stated that PIP assessments and the WCA were being rolled into one, as much of the corporate ...
DWP denied thousands of people PIP back-payments – make sure you’re not one of them
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) could potentially owe hundreds of thousands of personal independence payment (PIP) claimants thousands ...
EXCLUSIVE: DWP just gave £1 BILLION MORE to private companies for harmful back-to-work scheme
Not only did the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) hand a harmful “back to work” contract extension to notorious ...
The far right are already calling Mpox a conspiracy – because who cares about dead Black people?
On Wednesday 14 August, the World Health Organisation (WHO) declared that Mpox is now a global emergency. Of course the ...
The Week in Ableist Bullsh*t: don’t worry, disabled TODDLERS are fair game to right-wing rags too
The new Labour Party government might be in summer recess, but there’s no time like the present for throwing disabled ...
Phantom healthcare for ‘real’ diseases: when will ME/CFS and long Covid get parity?
Historically, medicine has had a problem with women, especially those who were not married. Sounds unrealistic? The nineteenth century wasn’t ...
Grieving for loss of life: the untold ME/CFS – from silent, darkened rooms
In silent darkened rooms where millions lie, the world turns unaware of profound loss of life. myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) is ...
Daily Mail just fired the starting gun for the new DWP war on disabled people
The Daily Mail has had a busy couple of days spewing out scapegoating propaganda for its billionaire owners and the ...
Mpox now a global public health emergency, WHO declares, forcing countries to act
The World Health Organization (WHO) on Wednesday 14 August declared mpox (monkeypox) a global public health emergency after its surge ...
It’s Gastroparesis Awareness Month – yet we need to talk about EDS and ME/CFS
August is Gastroparesis Awareness Month. However, two conditions gastroparesis is often found in are also often overlooked: EDS and ME/CFS. ...
Maeve’s inquest was a whitewash and the coroner betrayed everyone living with ME/CFS
On Friday 9 August, the inquest into the death of very severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) patient Maeve Boothby O'Neill concluded ...
The DWP just gave a harmful back-to-work contract to notorious Serco
Notorious outsourcing company Serco has tightened its grip on the welfare state. Another contract from the Department for Work and ...
This Severe ME Day, patients are still dying in hospitals as the world walks by
Another year, another Severe Myalgic Encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) Day will pass with NHS hospitals abusing, neglecting, and psychologising patients living with ...
After the NHS failed Maeve, on Severe ME Day campaigners will call for an NHS protocol
Thursday 8 August is Severe myalgic encephalomyelitis (ME/CFS) Day. And this year, grassroots ME organisations will launch a new campaign ...
DWP wrongly accused PIP claimant of £28,000 fraud – then backtracked
The Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) has wrongly stripped a disabled woman of her vital Personal Independence Payment (PIP). ...
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