We’re going to get distracted by 2000 more council seats today and the mayorals but worth dwelling on Blackpool South

🗳️ massive 26% swing to Labour
🗳️ third biggest swing to Lab in history
🗳️ Conservatives only just beat Reform (by just over 100 votes)

We’ve become used to…

I’m blind & I just had to say my voting choices out loud in the middle of my polling station.

Voting is inaccessible for many blind & visually impaired people.

Blind citizens deserve accessible, private & independent participation in democracy.
#DogsAtPollingStations

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Feels like it's been an age since I was in the paper so this is nice to see

Was a real treat to sit down with Lucy Webster and have a good old chinwag about Shardlake and many other things for The Guardian . Thanks Lucy ❤️

They know they're the baddies

And they have quite a lot of evidence that being the baddies makes them popular

Ahead of the release of his new show, Shardlake, I interviewed Arthur Hughes about acting, disability rep on screen, and the roles that changed his life

For Guardian G2
theguardian.com/tv-and-radio/2…

31% of disabled people live in poverty, compared to 19% of non-disabled people

PIP partially mitigates this disadvantage for some

Government lectures on the 'intended purpose' of PIP & what it should be spent on completely gloss over the underlying reality disabled people face

I'm full of lurgy and feeling sorry for myself BUT my friend just cut my hair and I swear there's something about a fresh undercut and hair above my shoulders that makes me feel like I could take over the world

Maybe after a nap though

Absolutely had it with these vandals theguardian.com/commentisfree/…