Recovery in the Bin

On the Hall of Shame today we have Nimbus Disability - They claim to have neurodiverse team members yet they and the companies they work with are openely discriminating against people with invisible disabilities.

On the Hall of Fame today we have @RachelCDailey_
for being an amazing person all round and a fantastic disability rights advocate

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom Benefits system trials automation amid growing interest in universal basic income AI-pocalypse  Britain's welfare system is experimenting with AI to manage Universal Credit claimants – even as evidence piles up that artificial intelligence may soon be pushing more people onto benefits in the first place.…

DWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom

WCA still going in 2031, over half of welfare savings not from claimants 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, reviews, appeals.

A further £609 million, 31%, will come from increasing the number of WCA reassessments. This saving presumably comes from removing the UC health element (LCWRA) from more claimants.
www.benefitsandwork.co.uk/news/wca-sti...

Opinion: The Government Intentionally Left Disabled People to Suffer

🚨Opinion: The Government Intentionally Left Disabled People to Suffer Financially During the Pandemic

Ewura-Ama Quarshie shares her perspective on how Module 9 of the Covid Inquiry exposed hard truths about Disabled people’s financial situation 👇
www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/opinion...

Examples still coming in of dodgy ways people are getting bumped off NHS waiting lists to make Wes look good - all variations on “here’s a difficult hoop you need to jump through simply to stay on the waiting list you’ve been on a few months”
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Social media is much more pernicious & has a much more radicalising effect than people realise.It’s why Musk paid a stupid amount for Twitter. It monetises & amplifies the Far Right, & is being used as a vehicle to manipulate & divide. Sadly,the damage will be done before anything is done to stop it

She’s also big mates with Tommy Robinson

Hunger in the UK isn’t a personal failure. Its a systemic failure - one that is entirely fixable.

Alton Towers to remove disability pass for people with ADHD and anxiety Operator Merlin Entertainments said the pass was no longer working as intended because of increasing demand.

The owners of Alton Towers are a bunch of bastards

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

DWP chief accused of overseeing ‘culture of complacency’ that led to carer’s allowance scandal Commons committee chair says DWP repeatedly failed to prioritise the vulnerable and was slow to fix errors

“The government’s most senior welfare official has been accused of presiding over a “culture of complacency” that led to thousands of unpaid carers inadvertently running up huge benefit debts”

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Pressure grows on ministers to end secrecy over UK medicines deal with Trump Critics say government hiding true cost of agreement ‘despite being forced to admit financial burden will grow year on year’

so hang on a minute, the UK (significantly, erm, “represented“ in negotiations by Mandelson) has just signed a trade deal with the US that gives into their demands for NHS to pay way more for medicines…. & yet Streeting won’t even tell us the barest details? 🤯
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

“Creepy, unsafe and spying”: The installation of Oxevision by Oxford Health NHS Trust part one Image from Oxford Health Oxevision pilot. The Oxevision box here does not have the black screen designed to hide the camera as with the current model On 14th January 2026, Stop Oxevision submitted …

“Creepy, unsafe and spying”

This report is written to accompany our complaint to Oxford Health. We are asking questions as to whether personal connections and vested interests may have influenced decisions pertaining to the technology

stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/c...

You couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!

DWP insults disabled people with steering group for Timms Review Disabled people and groups have been ringing alarm bells over the DWP review of PIP - enter a right-wing ghoul to the steering group

DWP insults disabled people with steering group for Timms Review www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...

From tokenism to fair pay: valuing lived experience in mental health Tokenism is built into systems that want the appearance of inclusion without the disruption that genuine power-sharing brings.

www.nsun.org.uk/from-tokenis...

A sign on a wooden post that reads "Blue Badge holders only" with a wheelchair symbol and a parking symbol

My full PhD thesis on disabled people's encounters with strangers in accessible #BlueBadge parking spaces is now publicly available: etheses.bham.ac.uk/id/eprint/17...

TLDR?
Here's the summary report instead: drive.google.com/file/d/1wmfK...

#DisabilitySky #DisabilityStudies

Thanks. Did do 👍

What’s happening in America is technofascism. It could happen here Peter Thiel's data surveillance company Palantir is powering Trump's ICE operation in the US. Carole Cadwalladr argues that the UK will be next

NEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM.

It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line.

My latest for @thenerve.news
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Over half of DWP disability assessors quit in a year over feeling ‘despised’ Department for Work and Pensions reveals that health professions are leaving profession in droves

Fancy applying for and getting a job as an absolute bastard and then leaving because you feel despised 😭

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...

We’ve put this on Twitter in the hope it’ll get their attention, but we’re happy to help in whatever way we can

Loathe thy neighbor: Elon Musk and the Christian right are waging war on empathy Trump’s actions are irreconcilable with Christian compassion. But an unholy alliance seeks to cast empathy as a parasitic plague

I wrote last year about the growing movement against empathy from both the Christian nationalist right and the Elon Musk/techno-pseudoscientific right

I called it an attack on “our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering” and “a flashing red light warning of fascist intent”

Nobody should have to perform wellness to be treated with dignity.

#DisabilityRights #EmotionalLabour #MaskingIsExhausting #TheBarriersYouDontSee

ICE’s Child Abductions Echo the Gestapo’s — But Its Tactics Are Homegrown ICE’s kidnapping of 5-year-old Liam Conejo Ramos and other kids echoes the US’s long history of child snatching.

The forced abductions of Liam Conejo Ramos and other children are deeply reminiscent of the forcible abduction of Indigenous children in the 19th century.

Our lead analyst Joseph Elliott takes you through the interactive Data Dashboard, launched for the first time this year alongside #UKPoverty2026 🔽

Policy briefing & NSUN’s position: welfare reform in 2026 At NSUN, our policy work in 2025 was dominated by the fight against cruel and dangerous proposals for welfare reform.

At NSUN, our policy work in 2025 was dominated by the fight against cruel and dangerous proposals for welfare reform.

In this briefing we share a recap of what happened last year, look at what the government is doing next and establish our positioning and plans.

www.nsun.org.uk/news/policy-...

A brilliant resource to become a better ally 🩷🤍💙

Download it now! www.wearequeeraf.com/dotheworkbook/

"it was only when an adviser came to her home to do a comprehensive benefits check that their life was turned around."

#PeopleNeedPeople

#TechAbleism