Lucy Webster
@lucywebster.bsky.social
Disability advocate | Journalist | Author | Public speaker | Community organiser | Rep'd by Curtis Brown | My first book, THE VIEW FROM DOWN HERE, a very personal memoir of ableism and sexism, is out now 👩🦼🏳️🌈
If you're (rightly) horrified by the government aping Reform on immigration, why aren't you outraged by it doing the far right's work by putting disabled people's lives at risk with assisted dying? Does your concern for minority groups only exist when it fits your own narrative?
November 17, 2025 at 8:43 PM
If you're (rightly) horrified by the government aping Reform on immigration, why aren't you outraged by it doing the far right's work by putting disabled people's lives at risk with assisted dying? Does your concern for minority groups only exist when it fits your own narrative?
*ahem* yes *ahem*
The reaction to the Panorama edit has been nothing short of hysterical. Yes the BBC has some impartiality problems. But its biggest isn't the one you think.
New piece from me.
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New piece from me.
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The truth about impartiality at the BBC
And the hysteria of the current "crisis"
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November 11, 2025 at 2:09 PM
*ahem* yes *ahem*
Reposted by Lucy Webster
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
November 10, 2025 at 11:29 AM
Maybe Keir should demand the heads of major US news networks any time they imply Britain is on the brink of civil war or that we live under sharia law. Or does it not work both ways?
Not to be controversial but imagine thinking the BBC is too left wing
November 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
Not to be controversial but imagine thinking the BBC is too left wing
November 8, 2025 at 5:32 PM
Reposted by Lucy Webster
Great to commission this from @lucywebster.bsky.social – an extract from her book The View From Down Here which is out in paperback today.
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This is how it feels to be a disabled woman desexualised by the world
In her book The View From Down Here, Lucy Webster argues that for disabled women, there is an additional battle to be seen as women at all.
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November 6, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Great to commission this from @lucywebster.bsky.social – an extract from her book The View From Down Here which is out in paperback today.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
Today is paperback publication day for my book, The View From Down Here, and I'm thrilled to have this important extract in the @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
This is how it feels to be a disabled woman desexualised by the world
In her book The View From Down Here, Lucy Webster argues that for disabled women, there is an additional battle to be seen as women at all.
www.bigissue.com
November 6, 2025 at 3:23 PM
Today is paperback publication day for my book, The View From Down Here, and I'm thrilled to have this important extract in the @bigissue.com
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
www.bigissue.com/opinion/disa...
Should be utterly embarrassing for BBC News to be congratulated by Richard Tice. It's not impartial to be doing the work of the *checks notes* far right
Imagine if it was the Greens
Imagine if it was the Greens
November 5, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Should be utterly embarrassing for BBC News to be congratulated by Richard Tice. It's not impartial to be doing the work of the *checks notes* far right
Imagine if it was the Greens
Imagine if it was the Greens
A question for the right-wingers screaming for disabled people to get jobs:
Are you willing to hire and work with us?
Are you willing to hire and work with us?
November 5, 2025 at 2:03 PM
A question for the right-wingers screaming for disabled people to get jobs:
Are you willing to hire and work with us?
Are you willing to hire and work with us?
I'll be talking about this on @LBC at 11:30
Live from my bed because contrary to popular opinion disabled people actually work hard and take our jobs seriously
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Live from my bed because contrary to popular opinion disabled people actually work hard and take our jobs seriously
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Autistic volunteer 'sacked' after family asked if he could be paid
Tom Boyd, who has autism, was a volunteer at a Waitrose in Cheadle Hulme for four years but when his mum Frances asked if he could have paid work he was told he could not continue
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October 21, 2025 at 10:16 PM
I'll be talking about this on @LBC at 11:30
Live from my bed because contrary to popular opinion disabled people actually work hard and take our jobs seriously
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Live from my bed because contrary to popular opinion disabled people actually work hard and take our jobs seriously
www.mirror.co.uk/news/uk-news...
Horrified to discover that the casting directors of The Diplomat thought it was ok to turn the actors who played Josh and CJ in the West Wing into a married couple
October 18, 2025 at 7:50 PM
Horrified to discover that the casting directors of The Diplomat thought it was ok to turn the actors who played Josh and CJ in the West Wing into a married couple
#journorequest: looking for people who work in media/entertainment/culture (broadly defined) to talk about the trend for minority characters to be killed off in stories
October 1, 2025 at 1:34 PM
#journorequest: looking for people who work in media/entertainment/culture (broadly defined) to talk about the trend for minority characters to be killed off in stories
a topsy turvey world where calling Reform racist is apparently an incitement to violence but Reform *being racist* is not
October 1, 2025 at 10:40 AM
a topsy turvey world where calling Reform racist is apparently an incitement to violence but Reform *being racist* is not
Reposted by Lucy Webster
This is a really key chart. Look at the difference between concern about immigration between Lab to Reform switchers and Lab to LD/Green/don't know switchers.
The latter group is five times larger.
The latter group is five times larger.
September 30, 2025 at 11:15 AM
This is a really key chart. Look at the difference between concern about immigration between Lab to Reform switchers and Lab to LD/Green/don't know switchers.
The latter group is five times larger.
The latter group is five times larger.
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gonna be posting this over and over again, aren't I?
Wouldn't it be good if the Labour government, idk, made the positive case for immigration, welfare etc rather than just capitulating the narrative to the far right? Hmm?
September 1, 2025 at 2:14 PM
gonna be posting this over and over again, aren't I?
'Disability culture' may seem oxymoronic to some, but to me it means good books, radical community care, and a whole lotta punk
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Me for @thepersistent.bsky.social
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The Joy of Disability Culture's Punk Side
Honestly, everyone should be exposed to it.
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September 30, 2025 at 10:23 AM
'Disability culture' may seem oxymoronic to some, but to me it means good books, radical community care, and a whole lotta punk
Me for @thepersistent.bsky.social
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Me for @thepersistent.bsky.social
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Can't believe I'm saying this but I sort of feel sorry for the king
September 17, 2025 at 9:18 PM
Can't believe I'm saying this but I sort of feel sorry for the king
would he like to say this publicly?
NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."
September 16, 2025 at 12:00 PM
would he like to say this publicly?
In response to a question about gay marriage, Farage says kids needs a mum and a dad, and straight relationships last longer
Vile, obviously, but also fascinating for a so-called man of the people to be so far from public opinion on this
Vile, obviously, but also fascinating for a so-called man of the people to be so far from public opinion on this
September 15, 2025 at 11:07 AM
In response to a question about gay marriage, Farage says kids needs a mum and a dad, and straight relationships last longer
Vile, obviously, but also fascinating for a so-called man of the people to be so far from public opinion on this
Vile, obviously, but also fascinating for a so-called man of the people to be so far from public opinion on this
The House of Lords has the opportunity to do what MPs failed to - and change the assisted dying bill to protect disabled people
Me for the @guardian
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Me for the @guardian
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It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill | Lucy Webster
MPs passed it without sufficient safeguarding. If there is any point to the upper chamber, it is to give the legislation the open debate we need, says political journalist and author Lucy Webster
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 7:19 PM
The House of Lords has the opportunity to do what MPs failed to - and change the assisted dying bill to protect disabled people
Me for the @guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Me for the @guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Reposted by Lucy Webster
Here's to hoping the House of Lords gives the Assisted Dying Bill the scrutiny, safeguarding, & open debate it failed to get in the Commons. Lives -- of disabled and ill people, already under attack in this country -- are quite literally at stake.
Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️
Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️
Today the House of Lords begins its scrutiny of the assisted dying bill
They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs
Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs
Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill | Lucy Webster
MPs passed it without sufficient safeguarding. If there is any point to the upper chamber, it is to give the legislation the open debate we need, says political journalist and author Lucy Webster
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Here's to hoping the House of Lords gives the Assisted Dying Bill the scrutiny, safeguarding, & open debate it failed to get in the Commons. Lives -- of disabled and ill people, already under attack in this country -- are quite literally at stake.
Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️
Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️
Today the House of Lords begins its scrutiny of the assisted dying bill
They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs
Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs
Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill | Lucy Webster
MPs passed it without sufficient safeguarding. If there is any point to the upper chamber, it is to give the legislation the open debate we need, says political journalist and author Lucy Webster
www.theguardian.com
September 12, 2025 at 12:51 PM
Today the House of Lords begins its scrutiny of the assisted dying bill
They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs
Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs
Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
A crucial Lords committee thinks the assisted dying bill gives an unconstitutional level of power to ministers
The Lords now has the power to do what the Commons failed to - properly scrutinise and amend this dangerous bill
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
The Lords now has the power to do what the Commons failed to - properly scrutinise and amend this dangerous bill
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
Lords committee suggest parts of assisted dying Bill ‘sidestep parliament’
The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will come before the House of Lords for its first debate among peers on Friday.
www.standard.co.uk
September 9, 2025 at 11:46 AM
A crucial Lords committee thinks the assisted dying bill gives an unconstitutional level of power to ministers
The Lords now has the power to do what the Commons failed to - properly scrutinise and amend this dangerous bill
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
The Lords now has the power to do what the Commons failed to - properly scrutinise and amend this dangerous bill
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...
If they do call the new DWP 'the dept for growth' someone may have to acknowledge that cutting benefits is counterproductive. But I won't hold my breath
September 5, 2025 at 3:45 PM
If they do call the new DWP 'the dept for growth' someone may have to acknowledge that cutting benefits is counterproductive. But I won't hold my breath
A shame that Lammy won't be shepherding the recognition of a Palestinian state and a shame Mahmood won't be sorting out prisons but have to hand it to Keir, they're good appointments
September 5, 2025 at 3:15 PM
A shame that Lammy won't be shepherding the recognition of a Palestinian state and a shame Mahmood won't be sorting out prisons but have to hand it to Keir, they're good appointments