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A decade after the Tories demonised disabled people on benefits, it’s happening again

Never mind that the DWP itself found that some disabled people can’t afford food or heating, politicians and the media need scapegoats, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Spare a thought for Britain’s new persecuted minority: the privately educated

They’re losing their grip on Oxbridge, and Labour threatens to strip elite schools of their charitable status. It just won’t do, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Eurovision represents everything that is nonsensically termed ‘woke’ – that’s what makes it so special

The high-camp contest, hosted this year by the UK on Ukraine’s behalf, is diverse, unifying, tolerant – all things we need more of, says the Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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As a billionaire king is crowned, he urges us to do some charity work. Welcome to Britain

Charles’ coronation initiative is no surprise – the royals seem to prefer ad hoc philanthropy to actually funding public services, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Jeremy Hunt will boast about benefit hikes, but his party knows it’s still not enough to live on

Despite the headline figure of 10.1%, the Conservative approach to welfare is such that they’re still keeping people in poverty, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Good riddance to the work capability assessment, the cruellest social policy of modern times

Thousands of people have died after wrongly being found ‘fit for work’, but benefits campaigners aren’t celebrating yet, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Budget 2023: will it lift Britain’s economic gloom? Our panel give their verdict

Jeremy Hunt has announced reforms to childcare, pensions and disability benefits. What do they mean for the economy?

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I want to work, but employers can’t cope with my disability

Letters: If Jeremy Hunt wants the ‘economically inactive’ back in the workplace, they must be offered proper support, say readers in response to an article by Frances Ryan

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Jeremy Hunt says focus on the ‘economically inactive’. I say he is scapegoating the sick

The chancellor’s rhetoric, echoed by the rightwing press, makes his view clear: that being too ill to work is a lifestyle choice, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Want to know the depth of our NHS crisis? Then talk to disabled people needing day-to-day care

It doesn’t make headlines, but I’ve heard from people awaiting regular and long term treatment enduring awful delays and great pain, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Well done, Keir Starmer, for taking on private schools’ tax breaks – but you can go further

Though ending charitable status is safe ground for Labour, only structural change will bridge education inequality, says the Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Covid is still a deadly threat in Britain – we can’t just pretend it’s gone away

Without a plan in place to minimise infection, a ‘moving on’ strategy leaves vulnerable people behind, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Disabled children can’t afford to use their ventilators this winter. Politicians need to face reality

It’s not fearmongering to suggest that in the absence of proper state support this winter, people are going to die, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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At this rate, the next PM will be the chasm where Suella Braverman’s soul should be

The Tory party is already lining up its next leader, running through all its MPs in ever-decreasing quality, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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A Tory U-turn on benefit cuts can’t reverse the colossal damage already done

A rise in line with inflation would be the bare minimum – Tory policies have been targeting Britain’s poorest people since 2010, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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‘Electrifying’ book about women with disabilities sells for six figures

Who Wants Normal?, a ‘memoir, handbook, celebration and call to action’ by Frances Ryan has been bought by Fig Tree after a nine-publisher auction

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Liz Truss spoke as a PM in denial, watched by a party that knows she’s a failure

The PM is plugging on while the Tory party implodes around her. Unfortunately, we’re about to feel the aftershocks, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The class war is upon us – and Holly and Phil were the final straw

I’m not saying This Morning has started a revolution, but maybe we’ve had our fill of a few getting ahead while the many line up for scraps, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Worried about the cost of living? You’re a doomsaying lefty, says Liz Truss

Crisis, what crisis? The right’s love of pretending nothing is wrong may have dire consequences come winter, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Worried about bills this winter? In Truss’s Titanic economics, only the rich will get a life raft

With a national catastrophe looming, the Tory leadership candidates have adopted a muscular ‘anti-welfare’ stance, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Why is Starmer peddling the Tory ‘magic money tree’ line on public spending? It’s just bad economics

In such times of crisis, smart state investment is to be welcomed, not feared, says the Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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What 40C in the UK will look like

NHS, road and rail networks, workplaces, schools, people with disabilities and rough sleepers will face problems this week

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Monday briefing: How the UK will struggle in today’s unprecedented extreme heat

In today’s newsletter: With record highs of 40C or 41C possible, Archie Bland and Nimo Omer break down how the heatwave will affect everything from workplaces to people sleeping rough

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There is nothing funnier or more terrifying than the Tory leadership candidates

In the running is a motley crew of extremists, fools and people who would sell your grandma for a chance at power – or deport her, says Frances Ryan

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No masks, no free tests, low sick pay – the UK government is back in Covid denial

Cases are on the rise, but a few small changes would make a big difference to millions of vulnerable people, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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