Dear UK Media:
No, Disabled People Aren’t Getting Free BMWs — And Here’s the Truth You Keep Ignoring
By Emma Dolan Horlock
(Chronically ill, slightly sarcastic, and extremely tired of correcting you)
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Get creative & explore the history of social work zines at our workshop on March 19th in Brum. Design & make our own collective zine for social work week. Don't miss out! #creative#ZineMaking#SocialWorkWeek2025 https://t.co/WJTwil2C9I
We made a podcast about life after migration with young Europeans in Glasgow. Episode 1 is out today if you want a different perspective on immigration in Britain. #universityofglasgow#EUcitizens#podcasting
I'm Migrant https://t.co/Jkoj2UG5oj via @acast
There is a tight link between bordering and assisted dying legislation from a state that doesn’t care at all about making the lives of people - racialised, border-crossing, criminalised, sick, disabled, and more - liveable. This is necropolitics at play. The state wants us dead.
@ilonapin @AnnaGupta2 This is horrifying, thanks for flagging this up @ilonapin - it's maddening that children with NRPF continue to die, and there is such a wilful blindness to how the NRPF rules makes children more vulnerable.
Between Monday 9th and Friday 13th December we'll be spreading the festive cheer 🎁 As all our buses will be free to use from 7pm onwards, with customers able to simply hop onboard and travel anywhere across the West Midlands! 🎄 Find out more here: https://t.co/Io52dHjTz4
@SifiReturned I don't want to burst anyone's bubble, but this petition isn't all that unusual in the UK - a few years back a petition to change the voting rules on the EU referendum got more than 4 million signatures on the same website. https://t.co/Xk8OeqL0G9
If anyone is interested in applying and wants to have a chat about working at the University of Birmingham (especially if you're based outside the UK), please drop me a message!
Heads up for any social work academics out there - UoB is recruiting for global 125th Anniversary Chairs and Fellows. Social care is one of their priority areas, so it would be great to get some social work academics on board! https://t.co/m4ErOAmH0Q #AcademicTwitter#socialwork
RIP Paul Stephenson (aged 87), known for being the first black social worker in Bristol, and for his civil rights campaigning, including leading the Bristol Bus Boycott in 1963.
https://t.co/M63lFQgTbb