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Blue Badge Blues 17 Aug 2013 | 09:59 pm
I’d like to show you some tweets. I’ve provided a screenshot as they have now been deleted. The text of these tweets reads “The dirty looks you get for parking in a disabled bay ” “Like there’s not...
“Residential training” for disabled people to be extended 1 Aug 2013 | 05:38 pm
I’ve just come across this government document “Residential Training Provision – Independent Advisory Panel Report” [PDF] and I’m freaking out a bit. I may be wrong – I’m too exhausted to get through ...
Fascism in the UK 30 Jul 2013 | 10:41 pm
The Home Office a few weeks ago: “There will be no hiding place”. There will be no hiding place for illegal immigrants with the new #ImmigrationBill pic.twitter.com/HH2JGDKnRq — The Home Office (@uk...
All Change: A New Diagnosis 29 Jul 2013 | 05:57 pm
I have been sick for at least 13 years, with some symptoms going back into my childhood. At first I was told I had Post Viral Fatigue Syndrome, then later Myalgic Encephalomyelitis. (ME.) ME is also r...
Misogyny 27 Jul 2013 | 05:29 pm
The horrific abuse I see aimed at women on twitter makes me ashamed to be a man. Seeing these vile messages as well as reports from friends about what is said to them in the streets everyday has opene...
Name all benefit claimants, says “lover of freedom” Mark Littlewood 24 Jun 2013 | 03:25 am
Mark Littlewood, director of the Institute of Economic Affairs, has written in the Daily Mail that he wants names and addresses of everyone on benefits published, along with the benefits that they rec...
Victory! DWP to launch PIP mobility consultation 17 Jun 2013 | 07:13 pm
The Department of Work and Pensions have today announced that they will hold a “further consultation on the mobility component of Personal Independence Payment (PIP)”. This follows the outcry after th...
Ed Miliband’s Speech and Social Security Reform 7 Jun 2013 | 12:30 am
Ed Miliband made a speech today setting out how Labour will cut spending on Social Security. He said “Controlling social security spending and putting decent values at the heart of the system are not ...
Trapped 5 Jun 2013 | 05:54 pm
So many thoughts So much I want to do Fight the government Save welfare and the NHS Protect privacy and the right to protest Write blogs about it all Send a wake up call I want to leave this bed Trave...
ZFS and Ubuntu Home Server howto 21 May 2013 | 09:25 pm
A while ago I bought myself a HP Microserver – a cheap, low power box which has four 3.5″ drive bays and an optical drive bay. I bought it to run as a home server which would back up all my data as we...
