@queenie64
Lido devotee & wobbly cyclist. 60 is the new 40 but way better. Politics, poetry, and occasional boxer. Women's right-to-choose absolutist and autism ally to my amazing son. PS trans rights and sex worker rights are (always) human rights.
A woman shot to death while looking for food for her family. Are these horrific incidents in Gaza happening so often that we're turning blind eye. Have we become numb to murder? www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
Watching Louis Theroux: The Settlers.
The IDF are monsters.
The settlers are hideous.
Stand up for trans rights 🏳️⚧️
Join me and @GoodLawProject and help us fight the Supreme Court’s harmful decision:https://goodlawproject.org/s/c41bb8
Chart showing the proportion of families with capital above £6,000 and £16,000: GB, 2006-08 and 2020-22 In 2006-08, just 35 per cent of working-age families had capital above £6,000, and 23 per cent had capital in excess of £16,000. By 2020-22, these proportions had risen to 45 per cent and 32 per cent, respectively. As a result, the share of working-age families who would not be eligible for UC in the face of an income shock has risen significantly.
The savings thresholds for when Universal Credit entitlement starts getting tapered off (£6,000) and then halted altogether (£16,000) have been set at the same level since 2006.
This means that more and more families are affected every year.
Coroner raises concerns over "very long" waits for autism assessments and "risk future deaths could occur unless action is taken" following suicide of 17-year-old. #dogwhistlefarage #autisticlivesmatter
www.whtimes.co.uk/news/2510682...
8. Ancient woodlands replaced by saplings in plastic tubes, ancient meadows by a reseeded verge, chalkstreams ... oh, sod the chalkstreams.
As building land is expensive, and farmland much cheaper, any "replacement" habitat will be shifted far from where people live. Goodbye contact with nature.
7. No more ecological site surveys. No more mitigation hierarchy. No more protection of any ecosystem, however rare, valueable, irreplaceable. All a developer needs do is to put up some money to create a new ecosystem somewhere, and job done.
3. Why not? Well, Keir Starmer has been so good as to explain it: these policies came about as a result of his "conversations with leading CEOs”. This is a bill for corporations, not for us. How long will it be before we discover that it was drafted by a Tufton Street junktank?
2. It's an extraordinary thing, this bill, drafted with no input whatever from anyone with environmental expertise. In fact, inputs from professional bodies and scientists working on environmental issues appear to have been systematically struck down. The government does not want this scrutiny.
Why does no one talk about what supports actually help autistic people thrive?
Why is there money for investigations, but not for speech therapy, accessible classrooms, or mental health support?
Why is your future being politicised by people who’ve never sat beside you?
Thomas Kettleborough: 'Vile' former police inspector caught in child sex sting
Alt text: Screenshot from the UK Parliament website showing details of a Work and Pensions Committee inquiry titled “Get Britain Working: Pathways to Work.” The inquiry is described as a short investigation into the impact of government proposals to reform the disability and health-related benefits system, as outlined in the Pathways to Work Green Paper. The Committee is not calling for evidence but lists three terms of reference: 1. To explore the issues with the social security system the Green Paper aims to address; 2. To explore evidence of the impact of welfare changes on poverty and employment; 3. To explore the experience of sick and disabled people with the current welfare system and their views on the proposed changes.
NEW: The House of Parliament’s Work & Pensions Committee is launching an inquiry into the govt’s welfare reforms. This is good news! It doesn’t stop the fight—it makes it more vital. But it is significant, and it’s thanks to your tireless campaigning & the testimony so many of you have shared.
Israel Claims Slain Palestinian Rescue Workers Didn’t Properly Identify Selves As Human Beings
Global map of 'Reciprocal' tariff rates announced by Donald Trump on 2 April
Turns out that the poor old US has been "looted, pillaged, raped and plundered" by Cambodia, Lesotho and Madagascar.
All news coming out of the US sounds like “tariffs for everyone. Tariffs for some. Tariffs for some people called Margery in April. Transgender hamsters will now be deported. All other countries are illegal. Betty Crocker to be investigated by DOGE. Babies back to the office by Tuesday!”
PIP exists because life costs more if you are disabled. Those costs won’t magically disappear because the government decides to squeeze eligibility - disabled people already face a disproportionately high risk of poverty. This plan will push even more disabled people into poverty - not into jobs
1. You feel powerless? Don’t know what you can do to resist the rise of fascism?
Here is an answer: Good Things.
Fascism inflicts pain and harm as a matter of doctrine.
Kindness, care and conviviality defend us from it.
The more we build community, the less it can take root.
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Vitally important crowdfunder to challenge ICB stealth cuts to support for the most vulnerable disabled children with the most compled needs. Please donated and share.
