🚨A doctor involved in PACE trial has influenced a DWP work programme targeting ME/CFS and long Covid Hannah Sharland finds the DWP WorkWell scheme is neck deep in a controversial model for disability used to psychologise people with #MEcfs & #LongCovid 👇 thecanary.co/long-read/2024…

School has started. Kids are getting sick. People are saying “well, it *is* fall. That’s pretty normal for this time of year.” Two things 1) no it is not fall yet 2) no, kids didn’t used to normally get sick en masse in September, actually

Book PRs - I'm now covering books on RadioTimes.com! I'm open to stories, pitches, reviews, interviews - the lot! Exciting projects coming up - DM me for my email 📚✨ #journorequest #journorequests

Every piece of science confirms that respirator masks work incredibly well against Covid. When you hear public health officials claiming that they don’t, read one sentence further in their arguments. They’re not saying masks don’t work, they’re saying people don’t wear them.

Utterly obsessed with this UCL researcher who won an Ig Nobel for showing that “Blue Zones” where people supposedly live well past 100 at unusual rates are actually just full of clerical errors and people committing pension fraud ucl.ac.uk/ioe/news/2024/…

Star Carr and the Mesolithic lake people feel like neighbours. I grew up around the paleolake flixton site and still live there now. Star Carr, and an interview with prof. Nicky Milner, feature in my landscape/nature memoir, The Ghost Lake. harpercollins.co.uk/products/the-g…

Disabled people designed out of streets ⁦RNIB⁩ + Wheels for Wellbeing⁩ highlighted issues with some of busiest areas of Liverpool City Centre ⁦Liverpool City Council⁩ is working with accessibility groups to improve its infrastructure + is making changes bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Campaigners have criticised the Labour government’s “hugely disappointing” and “exclusionary” decision to set up a board of experts to examine “economic inactivity” without appointing a single representative of a disabled people’s organisation. buff.ly/3ZvlRVy

"One can only speculate how many lives could have been saved during the first wave had the public been told the truth about airborne transmission and how best to protect themselves." A damning indictment. pslhub.org/learn/coronavi…

Tube train operator has successfully sued his former bosses after "botched process" managing his #LongCovid His claims of unfair dismissal, disability discrimination, and failure to make reasonable adjustments were upheld Another landmark case? standard.co.uk/news/uk/tube-d…

SOME PERSONAL NEWS! This is slightly terrifying to write but after 25 wonderful years, I’ll soon be leaving BlackwellsManchester! I’m off to work with Serenity Booksellers - an independent bookshop based in Romiley who are just about to open a new shop in Stockport. 🧵

My ex-wife got this for her dog’s lead but I feel like 1 in 10 of us should be wearing it on a t-shirt everywhere we go.

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It's 1 month since #TheDepartment was published. I'm excited to say that Pluto Press has already had to order a reprint as the sales have been so strong, while Waterstones has ordered more copies thanks to high demand. Thanks for all your support so far. #NoMoreBenefitDeaths

Yesterday down to Scarborough library to check out some books and dig into some research. What a thrill to see my own book, The Ghost Lake, on a shelf in the library, waiting for a book club to come and collect it. The Ghost Lake is available now, links in bio

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