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A rainbow playsuit and a pink ramp? Wheelchair Barbie is like looking in a mirror

I don’t believe a toy will solve society’s problems, but finding a doll that looked like me sent the wordless message, ‘You belong’, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Monday briefing: The missing minister and a ‘very clear’ message to Britain’s disabled people

In today’s newsletter: ‘Demoting’ the role of minister for disabled people says a lot about the Conservative party’s priorities, says Frances Ryan

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The new Tory austerity will be like nothing we’ve seen before. Here is its human cost

Jeremy Hunt’s planned cuts will mean the death of public services. The lives of Britain’s most vulnerable people are on the line, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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The Tories are back to monstering people on benefits – and it has nothing to do with saving money

Straight out of the 2010 playbook, the party’s plan to force disabled people into work is pure performative cruelty, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Ending extreme poverty is within Labour’s grasp

Letters: Prof Mike Stein on an ‘essentials guarantee’ to lift people out of destitution. Plus letters from Andrew Forsey, Austen Lynch and Alexandra Smithies

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The Tories have created a new poverty – one so deep and vicious it requires Victorian vocabulary

‘Destitute’ means a living standard so sparse, it should be consigned to history. It now applies to 4 million in the UK, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Keir Starmer’s conference speech: has he done enough to win the general election?

Our panel weighs in on whether the Labour leader will have won over the doubters

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Come with me to a Home Office centre for disabled asylum seekers. See Britain’s hidden shame

Leaving disabled asylum seekers to rot in an old care home is the system working as intended, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Covid’s back, you say? As disabled and vulnerable people know all too well, it never went away

The government’s policy is to pretend we’re getting ‘back to normal’. The result is millions of us live in fear of losing our lives, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Thursday briefing: The damage done by 13 years of Conservative welfare cuts

In today’s newsletter: As the Department of Work and Pensions looks to ‘tighten’ work capability assessments, we look at the impact of a decade of welfare policies

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Attitudes to the poor are based on a myth

Letters: Jane Mardell and a group of academics respond to Frances Ryan’s piece on a YouGov poll on what people in different income groups ‘should be able to afford’

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Britons have become so mean that many of us think poor people don’t deserve leisure time

This is the Victorian workhouse mentality repackaged for the iPhone era, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Hold your nerve on Lords reform, Keir Starmer, or we’ll never see the back of Boris Johnson’s cronies

If Labour’s leader only targets hereditary peers, the likes of Charlotte Owen and others who shouldn’t even be there will survive, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Labour has to be more than simply the anti-Tory party

Letters: Gary Nethercott and Lyn Howard respond to Frances Ryan’s article about the party’s lack of clear policy direction under Keir Starmer

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By telling us so little about its policy plans, Labour tells us all we need to know

Crashing headlong into multiple crises, Britain needs bold solutions, not Keir Starmer’s cautious reserve, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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Lewis Capaldi’s Glastonbury set displayed the best of the human spirit – and put disability centre-stage

In his moment of triumph, his disabilities visible, the crowd loved him. If only society was always so accepting of difference, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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In the video they are laughing – now Johnson has danced into a new job, and the joke’s still on us

How can we forget Partygate when those responsible face no sanction, and some are even honoured, asks the Guardian columnist Frances Ryan

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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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