Part of the reason the #nhs is struggling is because it has elevated process and put it above patient

This is very good #disability It comprehensively demolishes the DWP claim that more work from home jobs means disabled people can just breeze out of unemployment and benefits

Going for excruciatingly painful but very effective capsaicin treatment today. It’s a sad fact that I’m far more wired about dealing with the hospital than I am the procedure. Pain I can handle. I’m a connoisseur of it. Bureaucracy induced stress wrecks me.

Voted #Election2024 . I wasn’t going to but thanks to the despicable and ugly attack on #disabled people by Work & Pensions Secretary Mel Stride I swallowed my disillusion with the alternatives and voted against his party. I will turn out until they’re out.

So true. And yet it's disturbing how often HCPs get this wrong.

Disabled people have sex. Why can’t the NHS understand that?
My latest for @indyvoices on a simply appalling story of mistreatment.
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I love a good rap feud but really, Drake trying to take on Kendrick Lamaar is like Sonny Liston squaring up to the 'Louisville Lip' Mohammed Ali. And we all know how that went...

For only the second time in my life, I was going to withhold my vote tomorrow. After the Tories PIP reform proposals, that's changed. With deep reluctance, I'll vote Labour in the mayoral/assembly elections because much as I have doubts, those plans are pure evil.

Well said. Depressingly on brand for this government too

Today's job woes: some 1,500 workers at Premier Inn owner Whitbread will lose their jobs after it revealed plans to slash its chain of branded restaurants by more than 200 in favour of building more hotel rooms

Brexit is like a permanent earthquake whose aftershocks continue to shake the economy. Yep, I'm writing about those ruinous import fees today, the effect of which the government appears wilfully ignorant of (they will be inflationary because loading costs on to importers)

Why Tories think giving disabled people vouchers, not cash, is a vote-winner. BTW It’s not.
But it’s a clear indication of which sector of society is in the Tories’ pre-election firing line
An unashamedly furious column by me for Independent Voices #disability

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Hearing government upset by harsh words from disability organisations/charities in response to DWP's proposed PIP reforms. They should suck it up. Language used towards #disabled people has been ugly. Gutter stuff. Don't like hurty words aimed at you? Watch your own mouth

It shouldn’t matter that Mr Bates vs the Post Office lost ITV money. But it does.
Why we have to preserve public services broadcasting by me for Independent Voices
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There aren’t enough words to damn Ofsted’s one-word school reviews…
Me for Independent Voices
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What is it about Monday and low blood sugar? Always Monday morning! Didn’t help that I’d turned the Libre alarm off and forgot to switch it back Sunday eves… sigh… FU #Type1Diabetes

Piece of music history: First and only show by Giant Syndicate inc Howard Gelb (Giant Sand), Kristen Hersh, Steve Wynn (Dream Syndicate) bringing curtain down on the Fire Records 40th birthday all dayer. Awesome to be there

It shouldn’t matter that Mr Bates vs the Post Office lost ITV money. But it does.
Why we have to preserve public services broadcasting by me for Independent Voices
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At The Fire Records all dayer at Earth in Hackney. Already fallen in love with Monde UFO and we only just caught the end of their set. Accessibility a tad challenging but staff friendly and helpful which counts for a lot

There aren’t enough words to damn Ofsted’s one-word school reviews…
Me for Independent Voices
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