The Prime Minister and his wife's personal wealth rose to £651 million amid the biggest fall in living standards for British people since records began
Disability
This text is not about Baby Reindeer, Netflix’s latest hit. It’s about one of the most perverse dimensions of sanism and anti-madness: the exploitation of madness as an edifying aesthetic resource. It is also about the obsolescence of narratives centered on the uncritical perspective of the traditional agent of the banality of evil, the mediocre […]
For Penny Pepper, debates about changing the law on assisted suicide are a way in for a dangerous, niggling, idea of how we should value disabled people’s lives
Saba Salman reports on a significant project that involves people with learning disabilities addressing the issues directly and shaping the narrative
Government plans to target welfare payments to the long-term sick and disabled are deeply unpopular, an exclusive new poll suggests
The Prime Minister's announcements on sickness and disability benefits were not just another assault on an already punitive welfare system – they were nuclear-level gaslighting, writes Mary O'Hara
Hardeep Matharu, Editor of Byline Times, explains why the May 2024 print edition focuses on the denial of human rights and basic care to people with learning disabilities
Sunak's Government has been called to face a UN committee over the shocking conditions faced by some disabled people after years of austerity
On International Women's Day, Penny Pepper celebrates how other disabled women came to be her pillars of strength, wisdom and joy
Private equity companies - many with connections to the Conservative Party - have been buying up large swathes of the public sector, including care homes, schools and GP surgeries. Special schools appear to be the latest hot property