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This is my proposing speech for TUC Disabled Workers’ Committee’s emergency motion calling for action to stop cuts to funding for kids with Special Educational Needs and Disabilities. Several trade unions’ delegates spoke in support of the...

The final motion at this year’s TUC Disabled Workers’ Conference was on Learning Disability. As this is an important and neglected issue, and the motion made some good points, it was clearly going to pass. However, I thought it important to...

Published on PCS blog, 17 May 2018:

In Mental Health Awareness Week, Janine warns that we need to be more than just aware, but...

Work hard, be conscientious, be afraid
Your life won't be worth living if you fail
The only thing that matters is your grade

Feel guilty for each error you have made
Learn quotes by rote and don't stop to exhale
...

Boris Johnson nominates
the President of the United States

He says the Nobel Prize for Peace
should go to Donald Trump

But that joker has been played before
No satire in it any more

Irony died, doesn't he...

Performances booked so far. Click for details - and keep checking back for updates!:

• 8 May: Guesting with Amy Klinsman, Sheffield
...

The Disaffected Middle-aged Women make an appearance in Paris on a second consecutive day, this time at Berkeley Books.

Published in Solidarity 468

Disabled transport workers discussed issues from workplace representation to the role of charities at...

Sorry?
Is
Jeremy Hunt
for real?

Up to 270 dead is
the toll of that 'glitch'

That is
Hundreds of women gone
unscanned, untreated

Hundreds of women gone

That is
the toll of that...

The Disaffected Middle-aged Women appear at Chesterfield Labour Club, with an evening of poetic entertainment.

More details to follow.