The employment minister attacks the ‘Toynbee left’ – but his cuts to tax credits hurt low earners most … Continue reading

To aid and abet means to assist another person in the commission of a crime by words or conduct actively,

Continue readingTHE TRUTH ABOUT CONDEM TAXATION: How the coalition actively aids and abets wholesale corporate tax avoidance of £120 bn p.a. while Britons suffer

Karen Soldatic, Donna Reeve, Hannah Morgan, and Chris Grover, 19 April 2012       Disabled people have been mobilising across the UK. Supported

Continue readingBritain’s disabled are being abandoned by the state – Open Democracy

   3:33PM, WED 18 APR 2012       Police talk to the protesters in Trafalgar Square. Credit: London Tonight  

Continue readingDisabled protesters chain themselves to lights in Trafalgar Square

Wheelchair users chain themselves together in latest in a series of direct action protests against welfare cuts … Continue reading

As Samira noted earlier, in an attempt to defend its cap on tax relief, the Treasury has released new figures revealing

Continue readingHow much tax do the super-rich pay? Never-before-published data reveals the extent of tax avoidance.

First published Sunday 15 April 2012 No wonder the Left Front candidate is on the rise in France. He offers

Continue readingJean-Luc Mélenchon offers practical solutions where neoliberalism has failed

If the Scottish National party takes Glasgow in May, the shock waves will go to the top of Labour’s hierarchy … Continue reading

ANDREW MARR: Severely disabled young people, when they reach the age of 18, get government support without a means test. The

Continue readingWhere Ed Miliband and Ed Balls’ ‘Labour’ stand on Welfare, ConDem Cuts

The Green Benches by Dr Éoin Clarke (PhD)   I have voted Lib Dem on many occasions including at the last General

Continue readingLifelong Lib Dem voters explain why they have turned their back on the party for good.

Help Wanted for Legal Challenges From our sister organisation Disabled People Against Cuts (DPAC) England & Wales only   For

Continue readingAppeal for complainants to Come Forward to Mount Legal Challenges to Cuts

Ronnie Stevenson of the Scottish Anti-Cuts Coalition speaks about the attacks on disabled people and their services at Glasgow Disability

Continue readingRonnie Stevenson speaks about the attacks on disabled people at Glasgow Disability Alliance election hustings

The latest news, headlines & open discussions about the autism spectrum     As the father of an autistic son,

Continue readingThe most cynical TV show I’ve ever seen: The father of an autistic teenager attacks Ricky Gervais’ new comedy

  FURIOUS disabled activists are planning a massive co-ordinated protest which will put their wheelchairs in direct collision course with

Continue readingDisabled activists target Olympics

Creator of Channel 4’s one-off show Derek also condemns horse-racing two days before the Grand National … Continue reading

By Don Mackay   A FIGHTBACK against the closure of factories employing more than 1500 disabled workers will be launched

Continue readingFightback to save 1500 jobs for disabled people at Remploy factories

Britain faces decades of spending cuts and tax increases if the national debt is to be brought under control, economists

Continue reading‎’Decades’ of cuts and tax rises ahead, economists forecast – Daily Telegraph

  Please submit the links to articles in the tabloid media that you personally have found offensive, insulting, humiliating or

Continue readingConsultation on Leveson Inquiry/press portrayal of disability

Atos Healthcare defends blanket security policy for government work amid concerns that whistleblowers may be silenced … Continue reading

  by Sunny Hundal of Liberal Conspiracy and The Guardian The company ATOS Healthcare – which is contracted by the Department for Work

Continue readingExclusive leak: Atos forces doctors to sign Official Secrets Act