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‘As a disabled journalist, I wanted disabled people’s voices to be heard’
Ruth F Hunt interviews FRANCES RYAN about her new book dissecting the impacts of austerity
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In the wake of Ann Widdecombe’s murder, JOHN GREEN wonders whether the government will really get to grips with the root cause of these attacks on our MPs
The new PM’s opening addresses offered hope, council homes and reform — but little detail on how any of it will be delivered, warns CLAUDIA WEBBE
Despite the screeching from the right-wing media, Burnham’s speech chimed with the public mood - and socialists should take advantage, says Morning Star editor BEN CHACKO
Scotland's Labour leader cannot continue to evade responsibility for the party's decline, argues LAUREN HARPER
Nature as well as society works dialectically, asserts the Marx Memorial Library and Workers’ School
JOURNALIST Frances Ryan, recently longlisted on the Orwell Prize for Exposing Britain’s Social Evils, has for the past seven years reported for the Guardian on what is really happening to disabled people due to austerity.
In doing so, she has provided an ongoing reality check to the lies, slurs and misleading remarks coming from Iain Duncan Smith, Esther McVey, Amber Rudd and others.
In recent years she has been focusing on individual lives. Those people with disabilities facing multiple cuts coming from all directions.
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