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Frances Ryan

2 years

SOME NEWS. I’m so excited to finally be able to say I’m writing a new book - a lifestyle guide for disabled women for @FigTreePenguin out in 2025. It’s a love letter to disabled women everywhere. With jokes. There’s more info about it here:

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

YOU’VE BEEN EXPECTING DISABLED AND UNEMPLOYED PEOPLE TO LIVE ON THIS FOR YEARS.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

4 years

Coronavirus: ‘How is £94 a week going to pay anyone’s bills?’

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

They didn’t resign over Covid deaths. They didn’t resign over benefit cuts. They didn’t resign over Partygate. They didn’t resign over PPE. They didn’t resign over Brexit failure. They didn’t resign over deporting refugees. Spare us the praise for the ‘good’ Tories.

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Frances Ryan

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Fucking hell. A (mainstream, popular) photography company offered parents the chance to buy a school photo that didn’t include the disabled children. It really is a reminder just how much some of the public believe disabled people should be wiped from society.

BBC News (UK)

@BBCNews

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Parents offered class photo with no 'complex needs' pupils

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Frances Ryan

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10 months

The Glastonbury crowd filling in for Lewis Capaldi when he needed help was such a beautiful moment. Anyone saying “it was heartbreaking” or “he shouldn’t have gone on” is seriously missing the point. Disability is not a bad thing to be hidden. It exists alongside success and joy.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Refugees are not the reason you can’t get a GP appointment or are languishing on the housing list. That’s the Tories.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

Funny how it’s the Primark and TK Maxx queues that go viral on social media and not Waitrose and L.K. Bennett. Almost as if Britain’s class prejudice sees the working class as stupid and fair game to mock.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Say something principled in a working class accent and they’ll laugh at you. Say something deceitful in an Eton accent and they’ll make you Prime Minister.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

The journalists who published the Rylan story will know very well he recently spoke out about feeling suicidal. And they went ahead with the story anyway. Taking a good person who has been vulnerable and exposing them to incredible stress is gutter behaviour.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

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There is no such thing as “a sick note culture.” There is a record high NHS waiting list, crippling housing costs, widespread food poverty, stagnant wages and inadequate benefit rates, a broken social care system, dire mental health services, and closed Sure Start centres.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

7 months

I think of disabled people in conflicts. There are people in Gaza right now who need electricity to breathe or move. There are people who physically can’t make the long arduous journey to possible safety. Telling disabled people “24 hours to leave” is telling them to die.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

We can talk about who the Tories paid for the child food boxes. We can talk about private firms profiteering off poverty. And we should. But I just keep thinking about the mum unpacking it - humiliated asking for help, and realising she still won’t be able to feed her kids.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

There is no possible reason to end the legal requirement to isolate if you test positive for Covid. Coronavirus has not stopped being a highly contagious deadly disease. Clinically vulnerable people have not stopped existing. A politically motivated punt that will cost lives.

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3 years

Love this special COVID time of year: healthy people absolutely losing their tits about possibly being given mild restrictions on their lives for a while, whilst clinically vulnerable people are expected to risk death or live inside forever.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Today, benefit payments will experience their biggest drop in value in 50 years. Let’s be clear: Rishi Sunak has chosen to cut the benefits of struggling families in real terms during a cost of living crisis, whilst his own family dodged millions in tax.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

7 months

Regular reminder that no “ordinary family” can “scrimp and save” to afford most private schools. You can’t find £10k a term behind the sofa or by cutting back on branded tins at the weekly shop. Private schools are closed to most families. And that’s exactly the point of them.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Casual reminder that disabled children exist, deserve an education, and can be at grave risk from coronavirus. Anyone peddling the “just let kids go to school and catch the harmless virus” would do well to remember vulnerable children matter too.

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@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

At the start of the pandemic, I wrote that ‘underlying health conditions’ would be used as euphemism for ‘acceptable death.’ An 8 year old with asthma had their whole life ahead of them. They played, they yelled, they wanted to be a YouTuber when they grew up. They matter.

The Telegraph

@Telegraph

2 years

🔴 Only six healthy children with no underlying health conditions died as a direct result of catching the coronavirus during a 12-month window, NHS analysis has revealed

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

Today’s A-level scandal is simply a blown up version of the inequality we’ve long known: working class kids work hard and get screwed, and private school families buy their way in. Inequality is hardwired into this country. It always was. I hope the outrage lasts.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

I’m not sure most of the British media comprehend how catastrophic rising energy and food bills will be - because they don’t comprehend just how little money many people already have. It’s all very “we’ll have to cut back on holidays” rather than “they’ll have to cut out a meal.”

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Spare us the “at least Rishi Sunak is a grown up” narrative. In the leadership contest, he bragged about shifting money from poor communities to the rich, vilified benefit claimants, and doubled-down on deporting asylum seekers to Rwanda. Sunak is not a saviour - he’s a Tory.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Whether it’s eating plain pasta every day or ditching the TV, there’s a section of this country who desperately want people on low incomes to live in fucking misery. No taste. No entertainment. Just life in a box with three jumpers and cold beans. Bet they’re fun at parties.

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Frances Ryan

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1 year

I’ve got no desire to be involved in media fights but Julia Hartley-Brewer implied Greta Thunberg’s life had less value because she’s autistic, and cozied up to an extremist misogynistic. Will her media mates pause before hiring her now? Will there be literally any consequences?

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

The teacher with a kidney transplant. The kid whose mum has muscular dystrophy. The teenager with asthma. Disability is more a part of society than many think - and every decision we make about schools during the pandemic should have it at the heart.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Truly incredible to see all the non-disabled people say they’re not going to wear a mask anymore because it’s too uncomfortable for them. Babe, I assure you the clinically vulnerable people sitting next to your maskless face will feel a tad more than uncomfortable.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

There’s now rumours that Cumming’s little boy is autistic and that’s why he needed special care. Any parent of a disabled child will empathise but if it’s true, why not say earlier? Constantly changing the story is insulting and using disability as the latest excuse is grim.

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1 year

Julia Hartley-Brewer deleted her tweet in which she used “autistic” as an insult about Greta Thunberg. Being disabled doesn’t mean you have a bad life, Julia. Having no soul does.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Do you know what I’d like to read: a piece on someone who DIDN’T use exercise to help mental health in lockdown. We get it. Running. Cold swimming. It helps. What if you can’t do those things? A less obvious narrative with tips for the millions of disabled readers would be great.

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Frances Ryan

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6 months

I’ve reported on a lot of terrible Tory ‘welfare reforms’ over the years but withholding sick people’s medicines to force them to get a job is genuinely a new low.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

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Liz Webster

@LizWebsterSBF

11 months

Tories face new Partygate police probe as previously unseen footage shows staff boozing, dancing and mocking lockdown laws at height of Covid. At least 24 revellers include two named on Johnson’s controversial resignation honours list. From @DailyMirror

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

The number of replies saying “hate to see him like that” about MJF’s Parkinson’s is so depressing. It’s intended as sympathy but what it really means is, “I don’t want to see his disability.” Disabled people don’t have to be shut indoors to save non-disabled people’s feelings.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

The idea it’s the job of the press “to support the government” is one of the scariest myths in recent times. Disabled people are starving. Women are abused at home. Carers are working without PPE. People are dying. They deserve more than your pandering dictatorship of positivity.

Lord Sugar

@Lord_Sugar

4 years

I agree with all this

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

5 months

One reason “get to work” policies are so cruel for disabled people is that losing their career was devastating. Sitting on the sofa is nice for a weekend but less so if you’re doing it for thirty years and in pain. Being told you “don’t want it enough” is psychologically brutal.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

God, I loathe this stuff. There’s no celebration in working class people succeeding when they use their power to hurt other working class people. A barrister’s daughter who funds social care is better than a bus driver’s son who will happily cut it.

Sadiq Khan

@SadiqKhan

3 years

Always good to see the children of bus drivers do well! Congrats @sajidjavid on your appointment as Health Secretary. Look forward to working together to protect our communites from this awful pandemic, get London vaccinated and continue opening up our city and country safely.

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Frances Ryan

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4 years

If you thought Britain was obsessed with class before, the next stage of the lockdown is going to be defined by it. Working class people will end up being forced back to work, whilst middle class professionals largely get to stay safe at home.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

7 months

No one wants “a life on benefits.” No one “chooses” not to be able to work. People get sick. And then they are forced to live in grinding poverty whilst exhausted and in pain - and watch rich, healthy ministers knowingly lie about the easy life these scroungers have chosen.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

1 year

One more time for the doctors at the back: it’s possible to argue for higher wages without punching down on the working class. Everyone deserves a living wage. Even the guy that brings you coffee.

Dr Helen Salisbury

@HelenRSalisbury

1 year

In case you were wondering why junior doctors on £14 per hour are striking:

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Love having to argue in the year 2020 that people with underlying health conditions deserve to live.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Ministers and Chartwells are responsible for the food box scandal but don’t stop there. Every Daily Mail “scroungers” front page. Every Tory MP who said poor parents “can’t budget.” Every Telegraph columnist who cheered cuts. You took us to this place where kids are fed scraps.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Thinking of chronically ill and disabled people who are watching an already hugely strained NHS have to cancel their appointments, surgeries, and treatments. People with long term health conditions have had their health deteriorate through the pandemic, and it’s barely spoken of.

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Frances Ryan

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2 years

I can only be impressed by how quickly Rishi Sunak has crashed and burned. From being declared future Prime Minister by the liberal press to a tax-dodging husband who can’t use a card machine. Just incredible stuff.

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2 months

It’s worth noting that the director of the Auschwitz Memorial has defended Glazer. His ongoing backlash is a remarkable insight into the punishment bestowed upon any person who dares to point out the most basic humanity of Palestinians.

Jonathan Glazer: more than 450 Jewish creatives denounce Oscars speech in open letter

Signatories, including Debra Messing, Jennifer Jason Leigh and Nancy Spielberg, accuse The Zone of Interest director of fuelling ‘a growing anti-Jewish hatred around the world’

www.theguardian.com

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

Quite heartbreaking to see how devastated John McDonnell looks. You can argue about the leadership - there are valid criticisms - but there’s no denying this is a team who desperately wanted to make poor and disabled people’s lives better.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

11 months

You can think abortion should have term limits. You can think - if you really want - that being in lockdown, scared, alone and with several kids to care for aren’t mitigating factors. But if you want her imprisoned for it, may I suggest you just like the idea of punishing women.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

11 months

The Telegraph newsletter today has an online tool to help its readers calculate “how much of your salary bankrolls the welfare state” - and the 4 million people too sick or disabled to work. I feel quite sick. They are literally baiting their readers to ask what a burden we are.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

Incredibly telling that it’s footballers - a rare example of the working class gaining riches - that are getting singled out and not bankers, CEOs or royals.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

No, Liz Truss, younger people on benefits aren’t more able to “adjust” to cuts than pensioners. Disabled people who are in too much pain to get out of bed are no more able to find a job than an 80 year old - and they shouldn’t have to. Divisive and deceitful.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

7 years

Can we stop calling these men "traditionalists"? This isn't cosy or quaint. It's advocating forced pregnancy.

Mirror Politics

@MirrorPolitics

7 years

Tory Jacob Rees-Mogg says he opposes abortion even for women who have been raped

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2 months

OR YOU COULD JUST TAX THE RICH

BBC Politics

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Labour intends to pay for its NHS and school breakfast plans through future savings to public spending if it wins power, Shadow Chancellor Rachel Reeves says

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2 years

The new trend of “I’ll willingly pay more for energy to help Ukraine” is the worst type of privileged posting. You’re not a better person because you’re rich - and people on low incomes frantic they can’t afford to heat their homes doesn’t mean they don’t care about war.

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2 years

Let’s not sugarcoat this: it would apparently deny “freedom” to require contagious non-disabled people to stay home for a few days when they have covid, but it’s okay for people with underlying health conditions to have to lock themselves away for two years and more.

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@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

Tory plans for the public to “live with COVID” are just plans to let the clinically vulnerable die with COVID.

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2 years

I tried to hire a plumber and as I’m clinically extremely vulnerable, I asked if he’d mind taking a LFT. “I don’t do that anymore,” he said. “But don’t worry, I don’t have covid.” This government’s coronavirus messaging in a nutshell.

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5 years

No matter where you stand on Brexit, honestly embarrassing for Onn to describe Labour MPs voting for Johnson’s deal as “brave.” It’s not “brave” to make your constituents poorer and workers insecure. It’s obliterating the values of the party you stand for.

Labour's Melanie Onn declares intention to vote for Brexit deal

MP for Grimsby asks colleagues to back plan in an article with Tory Victoria Prentis

www.theguardian.com

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2 months

No one wants a bloody tax cut! They want to be able to book a GP appointment!

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2 years

Free lateral flow tests are one of the few things making the pandemic slightly less terrifying for clinically vulnerable people. Removing it takes away a vital protection for millions of people already severely limiting their social contact - and at a time of a spreading variant.

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2 years

Those outraged about covid passes potentially stopping unvaccinated people accessing social venues have been happy to stop clinically vulnerable people doing it all along.

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@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Thinking of all the clinically vulnerable people now worried about where they can safely go. Freedom for the majority looks a lot like restriction for the minority.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

10 months

No matter where you sit on trans rights, I honestly can’t comprehend how an elected representative wants to spend her time targeting a random member of the public. I’m sure this trans woman worried she’d open herself up to abuse by being on TV. It’s just cruelty to do this.

Rosie Duffield MP

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Dear @itvnews , I am sure this is a lovely, intelligent and decent human being. This was an important piece. This is not however a struggling 'mother'.

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2 months

It is so deeply depressing to see Labour give the right wing press these soundbites. They know no one “lives a life on benefits” if they are not severely ill and those who do are consigned to poverty. And yet they say it, making the country that little bit nastier and divided.

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2 years

Free LFTs will reportedly be kept for the over-80s. If this isn’t extended to working age clinically vulnerable people, it’s grossly discriminatory. It also ignores lifestyle risk; an asthmatic thirty year old shop worker with school age kids is at higher risk than a pensioner.

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6 months

I’m tired of the Tories targeting benefit claimants. I’m tired of explaining to people who should know better why it is both immoral and illogical. I’m tired of the ease with which the rich and healthy target those who weren’t blessed with their advantage. I’m tired.

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1 year

It slipped under the radar yesterday but the Tories have launched a new crackdown on benefit fraud. Benefit fraud rates are notoriously low and social security pay is at a historic low - but ministers have found £280m to harass disabled and working class people.

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@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

. @Tesco online had run out of all bread by the time it arrived at our house. So the delivery man just came back and gave us bread he’d bought himself. 😭😭😭😭

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3 years

If you’re high risk and shielding, you’re not “cowering” - you’re resilient. If you’re in ICU on a ventilator, you’re not “cowering” - you’re brave. If your loved one lost their life to covid, they didn’t “cower” - they fought hard for you, amidst a government who didn’t.

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It’s incredibly brave but also quite shameful that the mother of a murdered teenager feels she has to implore people not to be racist in her child’s name. Right-wing media orgs and keyboard racists on Twitter could only dream of such humanity.

Sky News

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The mother of Barnaby Webber told the crowd: 'Please hold no hate to any race, colour, sex or religion in your heart... My beautiful boy - you have my, your dad and your brother's heart forever.'

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Such an odd time to be chronically ill: you’re more restricted than ever but also life has never been more accessible. Remote working is the norm. Friends groupchat. Musicians stream concerts. Media give tips on isolation. Suddenly everyone‘s housebound and the world has adapted.

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Johnson playing the “good father” card to defend Cummings is an insult to everyone who followed the rules. Good fathers locked themselves in their bedroom to avoid infecting their kids. Good fathers missed their mum’s funeral. Good fathers went to work without PPE. #dailybriefing

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The Home Office thinks buying an evacuation chair so disabled people don’t burn to death in their beds would be an unfair burden on landlords and non-disabled residents. The mildest cost to non-disabled people is worth more than a disabled person’s life. Yeah, that’s eugenics.

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People who warn of the Tory’s cruelty are often accused of hyperbole. But I don’t know how else you can explain cutting benefits for the poorest to give tax cuts to the rich, all as bills rise. It’s not accidental. It’s cruelty. And it’s about time commentators admitted it.

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5 years

There‘s no money for disability benefits. There’s no money for social care. There’s no money for schools. There’s no money for child poverty. But the Tories found another £2.1bn for a No-Deal Brexit. Welcome to Britain: the land of warped priorities.

Millions are in deep poverty. Meanwhile, Johnson splurges £100m on advertising | Frances Ryan

The Tories can find money for ruinous policies, but not for hungry families, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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3 years

Regular reminder for journalists that some disabled people live in care homes too, and people with learning disabilities were one of the biggest victims of the pandemic death toll. If you’re only talking about Hancock failing older people, you’re missing part of the scandal.

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There is a bleak deja vu seeing these front pages again. It is no better than a mob with a pitchfork. Love to every disabled person having to read this bile again. You are worth more than any journalist or minister finding scapegoats for their own gain.

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I try to be good humoured about British politics but this is everything that’s rotten in the system: the architect of austerity saving money for the Queen’s hobby - and then having a jolly good joke about it on a podcast with the guy whose job it was to oppose him.

Political Currency

@polcurrency

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How Queen Elizabeth stopped @George_Osborne from making cuts to the Highland bagpipe school 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿👸🏼 🎧 Listen to Political Currency:

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You can think Jeremy Corbyn would be a crap PM (if you like) and still understand a Labour victory is best for the country. This isn’t a pick your perfect candidate game. It’s deciding whether some people can afford to eat.

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I worry about the total silence over the many people who will struggle to afford a face mask. When you can’t pay food bills or rent, a face mask for your whole family is another unreachable cost. Can they be donated to food banks? Will government provide them to poorest?

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@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

Hi Matt. Can you point us to the scientific evidence that says people with serious underlying health conditions can now “safely go outside”?

Matt Hancock

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4 years

Now we’ve flattened the curve & reduced new infections, from tomorrow, the 2.2 million people who have been shielding can safely go outside I know how much those shielding have sacrificed. Thank you to everyone who has protected our NHS & saved lives

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I’m sure this had the best intentions as an act of friendship but… it’s classic non-disabled gaze. A wheelchair is the dignified way to move when you can’t walk, not a horrible thing to escape. Being lifted out of it and carried makes most of us (not all!) wince at the thought.

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Beautiful. Kevin Sinfield carried Rob Burrow over the finish line at the end of the first Rob Burrow Leeds Marathon 🥹

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Frances Ryan

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Thinking of all the women in Texas this morning. There’s no such thing as stopping abortion - just stopping safe abortion. And that will always hit black, poor, and disabled women the most, who can’t escape the state. Controlling women is hurting women. Don’t pretend otherwise.

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It won’t get as much attention as the NHS Covid crisis but the social care staffing shortage is a scandal. The reality is a wheelchair user left without help to get to work or a ninety year old unable to get to the toilet. Human beings losing their dignity, freedom and safety.

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Only 55% of Brits think everyone should be able to afford a television. In today’s @guardian I wrote about the insistence that people on benefits and low wages should have to live a life of misery - a kind of penance for their capitalist failure.

Britons have become so mean that many of us think poor people don’t deserve leisure time | Frances...

This is the Victorian workhouse mentality repackaged for the iPhone era, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

www.theguardian.com

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@DrFrancesRyan

5 years

Rod Liddle has written a horrendous piece in The Times spreading the cruel myth people with ME are faking. If you’re a journalist who rages against Liddle for racism and misogyny, please be an ally to disabled people by calling this out too.

Always fatigued — yet they never tire of claiming their malady really is a virus

Do you remember Morgellons disease? It was all the rage a few years ago, popular with people like me who take the Bizarre Diseases Quarterly magazine and log into websites called stuff like “How the...

www.thetimes.co.uk

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 months

If your solution to fix the economy is “force sick people to work,” might be time to brainstorm some new ideas.

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Rachel Reeves is asked what she'd have done differently to Jeremy Hunt: 'We need to get people back to work. There are 700,000 more people due to be on sickness benefit.'

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I hate these policies. Rewarding kids based on attendance is a privilege system based on the privilege of being healthy. And it sends a terrible message about life - to the disabled and non-disabled kids alike.

Karen Beveridge

@KarenBeveridge2

5 years

At my son's school today they're giving away Easter eggs to the kids with 100% attendance. He has bought 4 eggs to give to his friends who won't get one, he feels sorry that they won't get one because they can't help being ill. #autistic #empathy

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

You have to laugh seeing all the non-disabled people complain about having to book a place at the pub. Imagine if they were forced to plan every night out to the letter, spend 20 minutes on the phone to a waiter, only to turn up and find they still can’t get in.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

There are 3.7 million people in Britain who are clinically extremely vulnerable. They are not second class citizens. They are your teacher, neighbour, newsagent, mum, nurse. And they deserve to “live with covid” - actually live with it - as much as anyone else.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

As COVID infections spread and deaths rise, it’s worth considering what this government has done to the clinically vulnerable. If you’re high risk, you’re essentially stuck at home for years now or you go out in fear. Millions of people’s lives changed, with barely a fuss.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

5 years

It’s your government who cut the BBC’s funding, which led to this decision. You know this. You’re lying.

Esther McVey

@EstherMcVey1

5 years

As someone who used to work for the BBC I am ashamed of them for this decision. Our “public service broadcaster” who has forgotten the public they are supposed to serve. Agree with @RuthDavidsonMSP & @GMB campaign

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

10 months

The British commentariat have shown more emotion in the last 24 hours over George Osborne having confetti thrown at him than they did in a decade for the death and destitution his austerity caused.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

I really dislike the “we feel fools for following the rules” narrative - as if the rules were wrong, not the fact Johnson broke them. No one should feel stupid for following public health guidance, all at a time of no vaccine and immense NHS pressure. Your actions saved lives.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

It’s a tough field but the government’s advice that wearing a mask depends on “whether you know the people or not” must be the stupidest thing they’ve ever said. COVID doesn’t care if you’re with a stranger or your Great Aunt Sal. It’s a virus, not Facebook.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

9 months

I know the denial around covid isn’t funny but “August flu” is a level of psychological repression that you honestly have to laugh at. Don’t think summer flu’s a thing, lads! Seems pretty weird we never heard of it before the pandemic! Almost as if there’s a new yearlong virus!

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

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Pubs are, by definition, venues for adults and it is completely normal to want to spend time in those spaces. Have a discussion about family friendly spaces if you want but to equate child-free drinking with excluding minorities is just insulting!

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

2 years

The Tories confirm they will block 300,000 disabled people from claiming energy bill help - just as the cost of living crisis hits. A truly gruesome move.

Government blocks 300,000 disabled people from claiming £150 energy bill help

Around 290,000 disabled people claiming PIP, DLA and AA benefits will be excluded from the Warm Home Discount scheme when it reopens this year, under government plans confirmed today

www.mirror.co.uk

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

5 years

Tories having a brilliant time at food banks is my new obsession.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

5 months

The government have confirmed they are *scrapping* the Minister for Disabled People role. After 13 years of the Tories impoverishing and humiliating disabled people, what a perfect final middle finger to the disabled community.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

4 years

If you’re feeling powerless this morning, go over to your local food bank and donate. There’s going to be a lot of scared people this morning wondering how they’ll get through five years alone. Let’s show they’re not.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Reminder that if you have an underlying health condition, your life is as valuable as anyone else’s. The JHB’s of this world were gifted their health but contribute absolutely nothing to society. You could watch TV in your pants all day and still be a more precious resource.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

3 years

Masks are annoying, but something really horrible about wanting to ditch a minor inconvenience over protecting other people. Ministers encouraging this are willingly endangering the lives of clinically vulnerable people and opening up anyone to life changing long covid.

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

5 years

Hi it’s your friendly woman who was permanently disabled by the flu to tell hard Brexiteers YOU ARE LITERALLY RISKING OUR LIVES. Fuck you and all who are willing to throw away human beings for your ideological end.

BBC Newsnight

@BBCNewsnight

5 years

Doctors and NHS leaders have warned that a no-deal Brexit would make it "very likely" there will be a delay in flu vaccine supply this year. Watch more tonight on #newsnight 22:30 @BBCTwo 📺 @deb_cohen | @mariannaspring

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Frances Ryan

@DrFrancesRyan

5 years

How dare Amber Rudd dismiss the UN’s poverty report as too “political.” Poverty *is* political. Just ask the disabled people queuing at food banks because Tories cut their benefits.

Amber Rudd condemns UN poverty report in combative return to frontline politics

New work and pensions secretary dismisses ‘disappointing’ study of UK

www.theguardian.com

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