Disability activism

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support
Access to work

Disabled man may be forced to close his business after DWP slashed his Access to Work support

Josh Wintersgill’s Access to Work grant has been slashed by 80%. If his appeal isn’t accepted, he might have to close his business.
Gogglebox star Daniel Lustig-Webb: 'Why I'm learning sign language at 50-years-old'
Daniel Lustig-Webb

Gogglebox star Daniel Lustig-Webb: 'Why I'm learning sign language at 50-years-old'

How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: 'It's one of the best things you can do'
Jack at Arsenal's Emirates Stadium. Image: Arsenal in the Community
Football

How Arsenal is empowering young disabled people through football: 'It's one of the best things you can do'

Letters: It's anti-migrant 'protesters' that make me feel unsafe – not asylum seekers
Letters

Letters: It's anti-migrant 'protesters' that make me feel unsafe – not asylum seekers

Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I'm on a mission to change that
Rachel Charlton-Dailey

Disability rights activists are too often erased from history. I'm on a mission to change that

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MPs must vote down Labour's benefits cuts – the health of the nation is at stake
disability benefits cuts protest
Mikey Erhardt

MPs must vote down Labour's benefits cuts – the health of the nation is at stake

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: 'A disaster on every front'
DWP benefits protest
Disability benefit cuts

Disability benefit cuts will harm hundreds of thousands, MPs warn: 'A disaster on every front'

Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: 'I can't make it make sense'
Access to Work

Disabled woman forced to quit job she loves after DWP support slashed: 'I can't make it make sense'

Government warned disability benefit cuts will drive people into homelessness, not work
keir starmer
Homelessness

Government warned disability benefit cuts will drive people into homelessness, not work

Deaf President Now! and the greatest civil rights movement you've probably never heard of
Tim Rarus, Bridgetta Bourne-Firl, Greg Hlibok and Jerry Covell as part of the Deaf President Now protest.
Film

Deaf President Now! and the greatest civil rights movement you've probably never heard of

Covid exposed the brutal realities of UK health inequality – has anything really changed?
Two people in vests work on the Covid memorial wall
Five years since the pandemic

Covid exposed the brutal realities of UK health inequality – has anything really changed?

Labour's benefit cuts might only be worth the price tag of a Premier League striker – here's why
Disabled activists march on Euston Road to protest against legacy benefits decision
Arun Veerappan

Labour's benefit cuts might only be worth the price tag of a Premier League striker – here's why

We may have learning disabilities – but we still want the same opportunities as everyone else
Kerry Martin and Emily Burr

We may have learning disabilities – but we still want the same opportunities as everyone else

Fats Timbo: 'It was hard growing up with dwarfism – but I'm going to change the world'
Fats Timbo
Disability activism

Fats Timbo: 'It was hard growing up with dwarfism – but I'm going to change the world'

Labour accused of 'turning its back on disabled people' in Grenfell Inquiry response: 'We're dismayed'
Grenfell memorial
Grenfell

Labour accused of 'turning its back on disabled people' in Grenfell Inquiry response: 'We're dismayed'

Labour's rental reforms not doing enough for disabled tenants, MPs and campaigners warn
Deputy prime minister Angela Rayner
Renters' Rights Bill

Labour's rental reforms not doing enough for disabled tenants, MPs and campaigners warn

I'm a disabled artist and activist. I create art where everyone is valued – including nature
Greta, a white woman and wheelchair user, sits in the middle of a green forest on location during filming for A World Beneath Us. It is Bumpy, cool, warm, trees, plants, insects, staggering, quiet, light, dark (shade), tan, green, brown.
Greta Chambers-McMillan

I'm a disabled artist and activist. I create art where everyone is valued – including nature

'The world needs more kindness': People with learning disabilities share their hopes for 2025
Images of Aaron Plummer (left), Tommy Jessop (middle) and Sas Granville (right)
Tommy Jessop, Aaron Plummer and Sas Granville

'The world needs more kindness': People with learning disabilities share their hopes for 2025

DWP wants to reform benefits to cut costs, not help disabled people into work, court hears
dwp's liz kendall
Disability benefits

DWP wants to reform benefits to cut costs, not help disabled people into work, court hears

The UK must change for disabled people in 2025 – so we can live the lives we deserve
a disability rights poster
Mikey Erhardt

The UK must change for disabled people in 2025 – so we can live the lives we deserve

Assisted dying is a step closer to being legalised – but are the safeguards tough enough?
kim leadbeater talking about her assisted dying bill
Assisted dying

Assisted dying is a step closer to being legalised – but are the safeguards tough enough?

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Letters: Our US 'special relationship' could be dangerous if there's a world war
Letters

Letters: Our US 'special relationship' could be dangerous if there's a world war

DWP says there's 'more learning to do' as every MP given book on deaths of disabled benefit claimants
The Department - book about the failings of the DWP by John Pring
Department for Work and Pensions

DWP says there's 'more learning to do' as every MP given book on deaths of disabled benefit claimants

Paris Paralympics is a stark reminder of the barriers most disabled people face in sport
disability sport
Mikey Erhardt

Paris Paralympics is a stark reminder of the barriers most disabled people face in sport

I was granted Freedom of the City but – in my wheelchair – not the freedom of the room
Anna Landre

I was granted Freedom of the City but – in my wheelchair – not the freedom of the room