Waking up to this news and utterly lost for words.
Alice was amazing and will leave such a hole in the world. With love to all her friends and family. Such a legacy she has left for us xx
I’m heartbroken to hear of the death of Alice Wong. She was a powerhouse of the disability rights movement in the US and on a personal level, generously gave her time to me over the years. I know she will be missed immensely by those who knew her and those who felt her presence online.
This is a lie.
There are many criticisms you might sensibly and truthfully make of the Sentencing Council and the Sentencing Guidelines. I’ve been making them for years.
But this is an outright lie. Pure fabrication. A fraud on the public.
Strong MP turnout for @ianbyrnemp.bsky.social Westminster Hall debate on Hillsborough Law. The Govt must enact a full Hillsborough Law - with a legal duty of candour and equality of arms. It’s not a technicality - it’s a moral imperative.
Watch the full debate www.parliamentlive.tv/Event/Index/...
I think we can accept Judge Inman has been proven entirely correct on the lack of insight.
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People can feel sympathy for Lucy Connolly over the scale of sentence she got after pleading guilty.
But the appeal found her evidence demonstrably not credible on what she knew/did not know about the sentence before her guilty plea.
Her media interviews repeat those false claims
The trial is using the Taser 7 model, which the Scientific Advisory Committee have warned may induce more pain than previous models.
INQUEST’s casework has repeatedly highlighted how the use of Taser can contribute towards death, including in the deaths of Marc Cole and Andrew Pimlott.
A week ago, the government authorised a trial for specialist officers to use Tasers in men’s prisons.
Concerningly, the trial has no end date, as it will continue to run until 'enough data has been collected to determine if they should be more widely used.’
www.gov.uk/government/n...
incredible how few people understand that 'free speech' means freedom from state censorship, not freedom from being judged for being an arse
A photo of a double page spread. On the right is a large photo of me.
Another double page spread. On the left is a photo of me and on the right is a small image of the book.
So lovely to see this spread on Who Wants Normal? in this month’s Disability Review Magazine.
I chatted about writing 80,000 words on an iPhone, trying to make the British media more diverse, and why this book definitely has more jokes in it than my first.
One of my favourite spreads in our current issue ⬇️
You're not entitled to touch disabled people or their mobility aids.
If you think someone needs assistance ask.
It is absolutely not acceptable to pet & distract a working assistance (service) dog. There are probably signs all over the dog explaining it. You have no excuse. /7
#JustAskDontGrab
It’s easy to see all this as ugly bigotry if you live in a large city rather than a small, fading town. On X, Ramsay proclaimed Diss “is rooted in compassion and decency” and abhorred “those dividing us”, yet was silent about his constituents’ concerns. But when treats like a family dinner out are hard-won, when you save all year for your fortnight’s holiday, it is enraging to see new arrivals living for free in the place where you held your wedding reception, eating three meals a day paid for from your taxes.
There’s so many nasty, awful details in that Janice Turner piece it’s hard to pick the worst. But this is so telling. Asylum seekers apparently don’t deserve to live in a place British people use or even have three meals a day. They’re not quite equal to us, are they?
Today, MP Blair McDougall introduced a Bill in Parliament to remove crown immunity from prisons.
Following the deaths of Katie Allan and William Lindsay in HMYOI Polmont in Scotland, he calls for accountability.
INQUEST backs the move to end legal impunity for prison failures.
And thank you for obliging me! This is probably my favourite spread to have edited this year
A screenshot of the interview. To the right is a large photo of me. To the left is a body of text.
Another large photo of me surrounded by text. There is also an image of the book.
Lovely to be in the latest issue of Disability Review mag chatting about Who Wants Normal? (and finding hope in a tough summer for many disabled people)
“The removal of an entire clause of the bill means there will be no immediate changes to Pip. The Timms review will be “co-produced” with disabled people, leaving open the possibility that they will never happen,” reports @pippacrerar.bsky.social www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
New issue of Disability Review Magazine has just landed, featuring people like Ade Adepitan, @francesryan.bsky.social, Patchwork Hub & more:
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Photos from outside the welfare reform bill vote last night. A mini, impromptu ‘die in’ was threatened with potential eviction under counter terrorism laws inside the building (yes, really.) Disability Pride Month started with this, notably.
Every time one of these case emerges from the #SingleJusticeProcedure, it gives opponents of the BBC a stick to beat it with
Yet, the Corporation is resisting a key reform to the system that may fix it
It's baffling to me
Important one to watch ⬇️
The #PIP ‘U-turn’ is nothing of the sort.
As I understand it, the reforms will still be applied to new claimants, eg someone who hasn’t become disabled yet or an already disabled person who isn’t 16 years old yet.
How is that fair?
Is this seriously the best we can do as a country?
In 'shock news' - disabled people aren't to blame for the state of the economy after all - can we get a new narrative for disability soon please?
#DisabilitySky #WelfareNotWarfare #TakingThePIP
www.disabilitynewsservice.com/government-c...
This speaks volumes.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
Colour me shocked that the police and IOPC took five years to dismiss the officers that stripped search a 15 year old child on her period bc she “smelled like weed” and found that race did not play a factor in her search or being treated like an adult. BULLSHIT
Important one ⬇️
And because I have to laugh sometimes, I wrote down a list of some of the most unhinged things that have been said - most in the newsroom & on assignment.
lydiawilkins.substack.com/p/im-bored
.. such as in allowing the parroting of demonstrably false information, says a lot.
If you consider yourself a feminist, or even a disability ally, you should care about media diversity. You do not know who in the newsroom receives this vital help; it allows us to do our job, strangely.
Having had to jump agencies while being written up by a right wing newspaper (since taken down thanks to the regulator), being told ‘can’t you just walk though’ by ostensibly well meaning colleagues often, & keeping an eye on other DEI issues, I am beyond tired. The failure of reporting this issue
