Writer, editor, analyst. Disability employment rights advocate.
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
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Makerfield by-election "a focus group for the country". A place where 96% are British-born worried about "too many foreigners".
Here's a focus group:
If you are going to spend another 3 years pandering to Reform, it doesn't matter who leads your party.
Regards,
The rest of the country.
It would be nice to go online, open a paper or turn on the TV one day and not see some talking head attack disabled people for needing #SocialSecurity — their basic human right — and urging cuts. It would be a decent society to wake up in.
Reminder:
Disability welfare: £46.3bn
Unpaid tax: £46.8bn
Meet the new boss, who's just like the old boss? Three letters: CSJ.
When they wreck the social net and fuel anti-disability prejudice, what exactly do politicians think they're "defending"?
York Achieves National Air Quality Targets for Second Consecutive Year Ahead of Clean Air Day
#CleanAir
www.yorkshire.com/york/news/we...
Half of UK welfare is pensions, 1 in 3 people on Universal Credit are in work, disabled people are disabled, more of them since Covid hit, but the welfare bill as % of GDP is stable (lower than most developed countries) and is forecast to stay stable and below OECD average for the next 5 years.
How can the Spectator write an article about Palantir, without revealing that its owner, Paul Marshall, has a major stake in the company?
Just complete self-interested deception
