Frances Ryan @DrFrancesRyan
Guardian columnist and journalist. Author of Who Wants Normal? (2025) and Crippled (out now) E: [email protected] theguardian.com/profile/france… Joined May 2011-
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It’s so deeply grim to see The Sun putting out the government’s propaganda, like a child in a journalist’s hat wanting daddy to like him. The word they’re looking for is “asylum seeker.”
It’s so deeply grim to see The Sun putting out the government’s propaganda, like a child in a journalist’s hat wanting daddy to like him. The word they’re looking for is “asylum seeker.”
Thank you for all your responses to this column. I know this issue deeply affects people and I’m sorry if I miss @s (I try!). If you’d like to, please write to The Guardian’s letters page [email protected] (Info on formatting here: amp.theguardian.com/info/2022/jun/…)
Thank you for all your responses to this column. I know this issue deeply affects people and I’m sorry if I miss @s (I try!). If you’d like to, please write to The Guardian’s letters page [email protected] (Info on formatting here: amp.theguardian.com/info/2022/jun/…)
“It is not simply that such ideas are unethical or demeaning – they are unworkable. Relying on the DWP to sort paperwork for a new wheelchair would be like relying on your flaky friend to book the group holiday. Sorry but no one is going anywhere.” My col theguardian.com/commentisfree/…
I think we can all take pretty good guess at what Isabel is hoping for here
"How comes he can scuttle off? Where is the geezer? He’s in Europe, in Nice, with his trotters up."
Disability benefit cuts that are expected to affect more than 450,000 people by 2029 will only lead to 15,400 more people finding paid work, according to official forecasts That's about three percent of the number of people affected. By me, for @BigIssue bigissue.com/news/social-ju…
I don’t want to say I’m starting a movement. But I’m absolutely starting a movement.
I’ll send the Tory Party a “receipt” for what I spend my disability benefits on when they send me a receipt for what they’re spending my taxes on. I’ll stop when they can be trusted not to waste it on bungs to their mates for dodgy PPE or shipping asylum seekers to Rwanda.
Disabled people having vouchers instead of cash benefits buys into the idea we are scroungers who can’t be trusted not to spend the cash on fags and booze. When the Tories get their arse handed to them at the election, I’m spending my PIP on fucking champagne.
Disabled people having vouchers instead of cash benefits buys into the idea we are scroungers who can’t be trusted not to spend the cash on fags and booze. When the Tories get their arse handed to them at the election, I’m spending my PIP on fucking champagne.
This is such a brilliant piece of writing by @bennylauren on illness, a changing body and learning to live again. theguardian.com/lifeandstyle/2…
I keep thinking about the nerve it must take to vote through Tory policies for years and then offer yourself up as Labour’s NHS adviser. Like an arsonist burning down your house and then handing you an invoice for the rebuild.
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Important @cjayanetti piece on the government's planned Work Capability Assessment reforms, supposedly to tackle economic inactivity 457,000 people are due to miss out on £416 a month by 2028/29, but only 15,400 of them are expected to be in work by then bigissue.com/news/social-ju…
@Lucy_Webster_ @DrFrancesRyan Absolutely love Frances’ work - a hero we so need! ❤️
I wrote for @TIME about people who regret having children I've often been told that such regret isn’t possible; for this piece, I interviewed parents who love their kids & who, if they could turn back time, might not choose to be parents again
Reforming sick notes is sensible BUT it’s got almost nothing to do with rise in people who are on disability benefits or out of the labour market entirely due to ill health. Remember a sick note signs you off temporarily when you HAVE a job - it doesn’t sign you on to benefits
DWP boss Mel Stride says 11 million sick notes are issued every year to sign people off work The increased costs going forward are "for these to be skyrocketing in time... we must address it, enough is enough... we will be taking measures to make sure welfare spend is under…
Ban smacking children in England and Northern Ireland, say doctors theguardian.com/society/2024/a…
@DrFrancesRyan You’re welcome - thank you for shining light on this issue and making sure people know that it wasn’t a one off. I think that’s incredibly important.
@PuffinBooks In the words of @DrFrancesRyan "That is the thing with true ugliness. It does not come in the shape of a wheelchair, a cleft lip, white cane or scars. It sits in prejudice, digging and clawing its way into our culture." You have proved her words perfectly correct with this video.
@DrFrancesRyan Really insightful article. Thank you Frances for continuing to be a great advocate for the disabled community 💪💪
Sales of crémant are up by as much as 51 per cent in some supermarkets. British drinkers are finally moving past prosecco. I got fizzical: inews.co.uk/inews-lifestyl…
How grim: the only thing that Labour’s justice spokeswoman says on policy in her first interview is that she will force through the building of 20,000 new prison cells rather than any discussion of reforming a floundering, failing system thetimes.co.uk/article/037b4a…
@DrFrancesRyan Thank you for making a difference. Power to you Frances ✊✨
When I post photos of myself people DM me with photoshopped versions where they've removed my feeding tube.
Fucking hell. A (mainstream, popular) photography company offered parents the chance to buy a school photo that didn’t include the disabled children. It really is a reminder just how much some of the public believe disabled people should be wiped from society.
'Being singled out for being different has a big psychological effect on our children' Actor Sally Phillips spoke to #BBCBreakfast after her son Olly, who has Down's Syndrome, was prevented from entering a trampoline park without a letter from a GP bbc.co.uk/news/topics/c7…
Aberdeenshire council has apologised after parents were offered a choice of class photos with or without children with complex needs in them. Natalie Pinnell's daughter, who has additional support needs, told the BBC about what happened at Aboyne Primary bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…
This is very good - with politics more divided than ever by age, the shift that is coming if/when Labour win the next election will be a generational one in a way that was never true before. This will be disorienting for ageing boomers, who have become used to always winning.
Boomers can expect to pay more tax, watch other generations benefit from perks they themselves never had and face being on the defeated side of an election for the first time. economist.com/britain/2024/0…
Who are your favorite one-scene characters?
@DrFrancesRyan @AyoCaesar @navvy_j Thank you for trying to keep pushing the discourse forwards! ❤️