Bible study: Luke 5:17-26 The story of the paralysed man is familiar to many Christians. Four men bring their paralysed friend to Jesus...

I am terribly afraid that what the coronavirus crisis is teaching us is that politics is the answer to people’s problems. That what we...

Historically, women suffering from multiple sclerosis were told that it was all in their heads. Then researchers discovered that people...

PIP isn’t supposed to be about diagnoses. But even with my diagnoses, I have major difficulties getting benefits assessors from a range...

Recently I failed a PIP appeal. I get standard rate mobility - which at one point the Tribunal were minded to take away - but was...

The point of extra-costs disability benefits is to meet some of the costs experienced by people with disability, in order to raise them...

Pulse, the magazine for GPs, has written that, "GPs warn the system for assessing whether people are too sick to work is becoming...

In the modern hegemony of identity politics, a person is only allowed to comment on something if they have direct experience of it. So...

This post is a response to Simon Duffy’s critique of a debate between Barb Johnson (from Basic Income UK) and Anna Coote (from New...

UBI imagines a world in which all jobs are carried out by robots. The increased use of robots in work is assumed to mean that we can...

Let us imagine that a UBI is paid that is at the minimum income standard (MIS). The MIS is enough money for social participation and...

This is the second of two posts based on an article by the BBC entitled “The Disabled Christians reinterpreting the Bible”. The gist of...

On Sunday 28th April 2019 the BBC published an article about ‘Disabled Christians reinterpreting the Bible”. The gist of the article is...

I haven’t blogged in a while, though I’ve been meaning to. I’ve been meaning to write about the unexpected expenditures that make a big...

The Office for Budget Responsibility has recently reported that spending on PIP, the Tory’s new extra-costs disability, was 20% higher...

I wanted to find data on the consequences of Conservative cuts since 2010, in the hope that I might remember some of them to use in...

I logged in to my UC journal today to see where DWP-UC is up to with paying me the right amount of money. They’ve made one correction –...

I had a PIP appeal today. I’ve been waiting for it for ten months. I don’t think it went well. There are some points in my favour: the...

Some moments of sick apprehension today. I remembered, some time after the appointment time, that today was the day for my monthly UC...

I’ve received some good news. My UC journal today had an letter added to it saying that they have decided that I have limited capability...