Rachel Reeves’ office has announced the date of the Autumn statement today, and it’s much later than usual. This year the Chancellor will present the budget to parliament on 26 November, a month later than last year’s. Bit late, isn’t it Reeves? The statement is typically given at the end ...
Hahaha, oh I love my job sometimes, and never more than when it gives me the chance to laugh at a terf loser getting their comeuppance – and there’s no bigger one than Graham Linehan. Glinner: the biggest terf loser on Twitter Graham Linehan, if you’ve the pleasure of never having heard of...
In response to a national campaign by disabled people, the UK National Audit Office has launched an investigation into a vital service that disabled people need to get into work. Access to Work is supposed to support disabled people to get into and stay in work by providing funding for s...
Just when you think this government can’t get more ridiculous, along comes Yvette Cooper on the morning news circuit. Last week Keir Starmer was ridiculed when he told BBC Radio 5 Live he was “a supporter of flags” He continued: I am the leader of the Labour Party who put the Union Jack on...
The long-awaited panel of disabled people, which minister for disabled people Stephen Timms has been promising for a while, has finally been announced. However, as is usually the case with the government pretending to include disabled people in decisions, it’s absolutely bullshit. On Monda...
While terves go around claiming trans people are a threat to kids, a known TERF stood by as a man threatened trans protesters with a knife and encouraged him outside a performance of The Cursed Child. On Friday 29 August, young activists from Trans Kids Deserve Better protested outside the...
In case you somehow missed it, this week, Taylor Swift announced her engagement to her footballer boyfriend Travis Kelce. Along with the happy tears of millions of Swifties there was something else that emerged, as it always does when Taylor Swift lives her life. An undercurrent of resentm...
Earlier this week the Canary reported that Labour will be stripping 13 million disabled and vulnerable people of the autumn COVID booster, well now a disabled led organisation are fighting back. Labour leaving vulnerable people unprotected by stopping COVID boosters As I wrote on Monday, t...
The government has responded to urgent queries from the United Nations around it’s treatment of disabled people whilst attempting to cut Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) benefits, and once again they’ve told an absolute pack of lies. The United Nations Committee on the Rights of Pers...
We’ve had a spectacular bank holiday just gone here in England. As well as blazing sunshine, this weekend saw an ancient English tradition return, that of “we’re going to tell you it belongs to us because look at our flag” – dressed up as ‘patriotism’. Such custom harks back to the days of...