Frances Ryan
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Neighbours: A New Chapter review – fans will be left shouting at their screens
The Ramsay Street reboot reunites Susan and Karl, Paul Robinson, Toadie and more, but the opening episodes are disconcerting – full of surreal moments, bizarre twists and (why oh why?) Mischa Barton → Read More
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 → Read More
Rosie Jones on death threats, anxiety and anger: ‘I’m not this happy person all the time’
Since breaking through in 2017, the comedian has become a panel-show regular, sold out theatres and won a Bafta. She explains how she hopes her new Channel 4 documentary will change attitudes towards disability → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
‘I live in fear of debt collectors’: disabled people in England tell of toll of soaring care costs
Readers explain how they are being forced to give up essential social care or forgo meals and sanitary products → Read More
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 → Read More
‘It’s a tax on disability’: rising UK social care costs force many into debt
As outgoings exceed income, people can’t afford to pay for the support they need along with normal expenses → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
Labour is on the warpath at last. But why is it targeting benefit claimants and disabled people?
By reviving scrounger myths and rubbishing free social care, Starmer’s begun a race to the bottom – one the Tories will win, says Guardian columnist France Ryan → Read More
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 → Read More
Broke and disabled in Tory Britain: the reality of life on one meal a day
Welfare reforms have left many disabled people effectively destitute. For them, this isn’t a cost-of-living crisis – it’s a cost-of-staying-alive crisis → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More
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 → Read More