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@scribblerpen.bsky.social
Writer, editor, analyst. Disability employment rights advocate.
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
Trade union disability rep. Arts, science and languages nerd, internationalist, hiker, nature lover. Could really do without Long Covid
Looking forward to next week's piece by Boris Johnson, Columnist on "The woke myth of Marital Fidelity" and the Daily Mail's new weekly food column on "London's best Pizza Places to take the sweat out of planning a family meal", by Mr. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
#CovidInquiry
#CovidInquiry
November 23, 2025 at 10:07 AM
Looking forward to next week's piece by Boris Johnson, Columnist on "The woke myth of Marital Fidelity" and the Daily Mail's new weekly food column on "London's best Pizza Places to take the sweat out of planning a family meal", by Mr. Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor
#CovidInquiry
#CovidInquiry
This "sympathetic to Carl Heneghan" Nick Triggle
Courtesy of #HARTLeaks
@karambales.bsky.social
The Great Barrington Declaration Carl Heneghan, that Carl H
Courtesy of #HARTLeaks
@karambales.bsky.social
The Great Barrington Declaration Carl Heneghan, that Carl H
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
This "sympathetic to Carl Heneghan" Nick Triggle
Courtesy of #HARTLeaks
@karambales.bsky.social
The Great Barrington Declaration Carl Heneghan, that Carl H
Courtesy of #HARTLeaks
@karambales.bsky.social
The Great Barrington Declaration Carl Heneghan, that Carl H
This perplexed in October 2025 Nick Triggle
November 21, 2025 at 9:23 AM
This perplexed in October 2025 Nick Triggle
This Nick Triggle
(October 2023)
(October 2023)
November 21, 2025 at 9:22 AM
This Nick Triggle
(October 2023)
(October 2023)
This Nick Triggle
(February 2021)
(February 2021)
November 21, 2025 at 9:21 AM
This Nick Triggle
(February 2021)
(February 2021)
This Nick Triggle
(September 2020)
(September 2020)
November 21, 2025 at 9:17 AM
This Nick Triggle
(September 2020)
(September 2020)
The "died WITH Covid" Nick Triggle
(16 April 2020)
Of the "pre-existing conditions" = death sentence period of UK Covid history.
(16 April 2020)
Of the "pre-existing conditions" = death sentence period of UK Covid history.
November 21, 2025 at 9:16 AM
The "died WITH Covid" Nick Triggle
(16 April 2020)
Of the "pre-existing conditions" = death sentence period of UK Covid history.
(16 April 2020)
Of the "pre-existing conditions" = death sentence period of UK Covid history.
Thank you, the 63 Labour MPs who pushed back against instructions not to vote and helped defeat Farage's bill to leave the #ECHR. No matter if some see the bill and the vote as symbolic. It was symbolic of an attack on human rights — you had the courage of conviction to help stop it in its tracks.
October 30, 2025 at 11:21 AM
Thank you, the 63 Labour MPs who pushed back against instructions not to vote and helped defeat Farage's bill to leave the #ECHR. No matter if some see the bill and the vote as symbolic. It was symbolic of an attack on human rights — you had the courage of conviction to help stop it in its tracks.
Lest any unreasonable expectations arise of the government learning anything from Caerphilly byelection and deciding that perhaps attacking disabled people and every scapegoat they could find wasn't a vote winner, rest assured it has not. Brace. Brace. We are "going further and faster" again. ⚠️
October 24, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Lest any unreasonable expectations arise of the government learning anything from Caerphilly byelection and deciding that perhaps attacking disabled people and every scapegoat they could find wasn't a vote winner, rest assured it has not. Brace. Brace. We are "going further and faster" again. ⚠️
After Liz Kendall failed to deploy DWP job coaches to mental health wards to hassle patients, Pat McFadden is deploying them to GP surgeries to hassle patients instead.
How about:
1. Cut Covid spread
2. Invest in public health, not harebrained DWP schemes
3. Let ill people see the doctor in peace?
How about:
1. Cut Covid spread
2. Invest in public health, not harebrained DWP schemes
3. Let ill people see the doctor in peace?
October 16, 2025 at 11:30 AM
After Liz Kendall failed to deploy DWP job coaches to mental health wards to hassle patients, Pat McFadden is deploying them to GP surgeries to hassle patients instead.
How about:
1. Cut Covid spread
2. Invest in public health, not harebrained DWP schemes
3. Let ill people see the doctor in peace?
How about:
1. Cut Covid spread
2. Invest in public health, not harebrained DWP schemes
3. Let ill people see the doctor in peace?
#Flu v #Covid #vaccine eligibility.
1. Which is hospitalising more people now?
2. Which is leaving more people long-term sick & disabled (2m+ #LongCovid, UK)?
3. Just as the government is punishing people for being sick and disabled?
Private vaccine: £100
Logic?
Thanks to @catinthehat.bsky.social
1. Which is hospitalising more people now?
2. Which is leaving more people long-term sick & disabled (2m+ #LongCovid, UK)?
3. Just as the government is punishing people for being sick and disabled?
Private vaccine: £100
Logic?
Thanks to @catinthehat.bsky.social
October 10, 2025 at 4:47 PM
#Flu v #Covid #vaccine eligibility.
1. Which is hospitalising more people now?
2. Which is leaving more people long-term sick & disabled (2m+ #LongCovid, UK)?
3. Just as the government is punishing people for being sick and disabled?
Private vaccine: £100
Logic?
Thanks to @catinthehat.bsky.social
1. Which is hospitalising more people now?
2. Which is leaving more people long-term sick & disabled (2m+ #LongCovid, UK)?
3. Just as the government is punishing people for being sick and disabled?
Private vaccine: £100
Logic?
Thanks to @catinthehat.bsky.social
The evolution of this story is a story in itself. An accident, much speculation, a bit of self-promotion, the usual experts on "mass hysteria"... And then, as Occam's razor has it, the simplest explanation — a can of noxious gas. The story is a cautionary tale not to take big egoes at face value.
September 11, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The evolution of this story is a story in itself. An accident, much speculation, a bit of self-promotion, the usual experts on "mass hysteria"... And then, as Occam's razor has it, the simplest explanation — a can of noxious gas. The story is a cautionary tale not to take big egoes at face value.
Don't give up. ❤️🩹 We are very much not done.
July 9, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Don't give up. ❤️🩹 We are very much not done.
UK Govt snuck out an impact assessment last night showing £2.1 bn cuts to Universal Credit health, with 750,000 claimants to lose £3,000 a year on average by 2029/30. via @richardburgon.bsky.social
The Severe Conditions Criteria (SCC) and SREL (terminal illness) are limited, protect barely 1 in 10.
The Severe Conditions Criteria (SCC) and SREL (terminal illness) are limited, protect barely 1 in 10.
July 9, 2025 at 12:20 PM
UK Govt snuck out an impact assessment last night showing £2.1 bn cuts to Universal Credit health, with 750,000 claimants to lose £3,000 a year on average by 2029/30. via @richardburgon.bsky.social
The Severe Conditions Criteria (SCC) and SREL (terminal illness) are limited, protect barely 1 in 10.
The Severe Conditions Criteria (SCC) and SREL (terminal illness) are limited, protect barely 1 in 10.
The UN letter to the UK government
July 8, 2025 at 4:35 PM
The UN letter to the UK government
The #Labour front bench, one year in, listening to Rachael Maskell MP pleading with them not to impoverish disabled people.
#UniversalCreditBill
#UniversalCreditBill
July 4, 2025 at 2:32 PM
The #Labour front bench, one year in, listening to Rachael Maskell MP pleading with them not to impoverish disabled people.
#UniversalCreditBill
#UniversalCreditBill
Before it vanishes, the Telegraph @telegraphnews.bsky.social correction on #Motability 30 Jun:
An article ‘Some towns have 20pc on disability benefits/One in five claims disability benefits in towns across Britain’ referred to people on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) claiming ‘free’ cars...
An article ‘Some towns have 20pc on disability benefits/One in five claims disability benefits in towns across Britain’ referred to people on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) claiming ‘free’ cars...
July 3, 2025 at 11:05 PM
Before it vanishes, the Telegraph @telegraphnews.bsky.social correction on #Motability 30 Jun:
An article ‘Some towns have 20pc on disability benefits/One in five claims disability benefits in towns across Britain’ referred to people on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) claiming ‘free’ cars...
An article ‘Some towns have 20pc on disability benefits/One in five claims disability benefits in towns across Britain’ referred to people on Personal Independence Payments (PIP) claiming ‘free’ cars...
If the #WelfareReformBill passes its 2nd reading on Tuesday, all its subsequent stages will be crammed into one day on Wednesday 9th July, to pass there and then. As it's a Money Bill, the Lords can't force through amendments or stop it.
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
June 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
If the #WelfareReformBill passes its 2nd reading on Tuesday, all its subsequent stages will be crammed into one day on Wednesday 9th July, to pass there and then. As it's a Money Bill, the Lords can't force through amendments or stop it.
#TakingThePIP
#TakingThePIP
Happy 122 birthday to George Orwell.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike... The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm, illustrated by Ralph Stead.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike... The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm, illustrated by Ralph Stead.
June 25, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Happy 122 birthday to George Orwell.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike... The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm, illustrated by Ralph Stead.
"Twelve voices were shouting in anger, and they were all alike... The creatures outside looked from pig to man, and from man to pig, and from pig to man again: but already it was impossible to say which was which."
Animal Farm, illustrated by Ralph Stead.
Principles and courage over hubris and threats, always.
June 23, 2025 at 11:51 PM
Principles and courage over hubris and threats, always.
Away from the soul-destroying Westminstery, here is better company of a medlar, a fruit Shakespeare less subtly called "open-arse" (once common name due to its shape when ripe), and its visitor, which I think is a 22-spot ladybird, but I haven't counted the spots and can't claim to be an expert.
June 18, 2025 at 2:33 PM
Away from the soul-destroying Westminstery, here is better company of a medlar, a fruit Shakespeare less subtly called "open-arse" (once common name due to its shape when ripe), and its visitor, which I think is a 22-spot ladybird, but I haven't counted the spots and can't claim to be an expert.
Lost for words. How many Reichsmarks have we saved from disability welfare to fund a nuclear plant?
June 11, 2025 at 10:12 PM
Lost for words. How many Reichsmarks have we saved from disability welfare to fund a nuclear plant?
This is a breakdown of people claiming PIP who score less than 4 points in all activities (even of they have scores across multiple activities i.e. have complex needs), who would become ineligible for PIP
Source: DWP FOI response www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_...
Source: DWP FOI response www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_...
May 26, 2025 at 6:29 PM
This is a breakdown of people claiming PIP who score less than 4 points in all activities (even of they have scores across multiple activities i.e. have complex needs), who would become ineligible for PIP
Source: DWP FOI response www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_...
Source: DWP FOI response www.whatdotheyknow.com/request/pip_...
There is still time to sign this petition to protect NHS workers and vulnerable patients from hospital infections.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
May 7, 2025 at 9:57 PM
There is still time to sign this petition to protect NHS workers and vulnerable patients from hospital infections.
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
It's hard to recall a government bungling its relationship with such a large, socially and politically diverse demographic, so badly, so fast, as it's done with disabled people and their families in just 10 months.
Go "further and faster", "cut deeper" – really? How about listen?
Go "further and faster", "cut deeper" – really? How about listen?
May 7, 2025 at 10:00 AM
It's hard to recall a government bungling its relationship with such a large, socially and politically diverse demographic, so badly, so fast, as it's done with disabled people and their families in just 10 months.
Go "further and faster", "cut deeper" – really? How about listen?
Go "further and faster", "cut deeper" – really? How about listen?