🔥The 9th Round of Easy Loan, Earn $40 Reward is in progress❗️ ⏰ Promotion Period: January 15th - Feburary 15th, 2025 👉 Register now and check more details at gate.io/campaigns/358

Meet the new boss.

Like the economy was going to collapse unless they withdrew winter fuel, eh

This summer, I'll be talking onstage about my new book Maybe I'm Amazed, music & neurodiversity at Deer Shed, Camp Bestival, Green Man & The End Of The Road. See you down the front etc

Good to see NEF analysis referenced in this John Harris piece - rising claims for disability benefits need to be understood as an intersection of higher rates of both disability & financial insecurity among disabled people. Cuts will exacerbate both theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Keep going.

This is no time to take basic legal SEND rights away from children, young people and parents

Starmer's U-turn, then. Imagine 2 disabled ppl with similar PIP scores. One receives PIP, the other is about to apply. The first is now spared to save the PM. The other will still be immiserated. And note: there are more of the latter (430,000 by 2030) than the former (370,000)

From Patrick Maguire's Times col, in which a 'cabinet source' calls Labour MPs who rebelled 'stupid pricks' & a Downing St insider says they're 'deeply unserious' people. Basic legal rights for children with Special Needs & (oh, look) Disabilities is indeed the likely next fight

My favourite review yet. The PM says our book is “bollocks”, then admits he has not read it. thetimes.com/article/84cee6…

Jim Callaghan & Denis Healey would have had their hands full putting out statements about the outbursts of punk rockers c.1976-7. But, you know, they weren't knobheads

"A life changing weekend" for our Champion Ady as we spoke live Glastonbury Festival to tell GOV.UK that their benefit changes are "leaving the most vulnerable people scared" when all we want "is to be treated fairly". A huge thank you to John Harris for making this dream happen.

Pleased to say that there's a glowing review of my book Maybe I'm Amazed in... the British Journal of General Practice bjgplife.com/book-review-ma…

Liz Kendall just confirmed in the HoC that existing claimants requesting a reassessment due to worsening conditions after Nov 2026 will be subject to the 4 point minimum criteria. So much for all existing claimants being protected. #TakingThePip

Disability benefit cuts violate human rights even with concessions, MPs warned ahead of vote bigissue.com/news/social-ju…

The blithe ignorance of different cognitive styles in Stern's part in this clip is quite something. Think, man! There was no "mask" of taciturnity & awkwardness. It's who Prince WAS youtu.be/3ojTqaVYVaM?si…

‘What disturbs you the most about the Glastonbury chants?’ ‘They get more attention than the genocide of Gazans.’ Journalist rachel shabi, who is Jewish, weighs in on the fallout of Bob Vylan’s controversial performance.

Stephen Timms seems to be telling Victoria Derbyshire tonight that he expects the money lost to people in cuts to their PIP, to be made up for with earned income. He seems to totally disregard the fact that many people who receive PIP work already. #TakingThePIP

Whatever people’s views about the concessions, surely everyone can see the process here is ALL wrong? Third Reading in eight days? A timetable like that diminishes the role of MPs in getting this legislation right, shuts out disabled people and puts too many at risk.

Honestly, get out of here.