Banned, but why? Facebook gives no reason

I am prompted to write that, despite an absence of new posts, I am as well as I can be. I have no health problems beyond multiple sclerosis. Messages have reached me, asking if everything is ok, such as this one: Hi, it’s (name removed for privacy). Facebook has not had any of your current …

Assessment disgrace: ‘Fit for work’ man dies before ESA appeal can be heard

Disability benefit assessors have been widely criticised for deciding wrongly that people are ‘fit to work’. The situation is a disgrace, the criticism is well deserved. There have been a number of examples, but none more tragic than the case of Phillip Balderson. He had terminal cancer, but received a Department for Work Pensions (DWP) …

Disability PIP Figures Released but Were they Buried to Avoid the Media?

Terrible facts about the UK government’s Personal Independence Payments (PIP) crept out almost unnoticed towards the end of last month. I find the way those important figures were released was both despicable and cynical. And that’s because the unpalatable facts were not given in the House of Commons as you might expect. Instead, they were placed …

Teenager with cancer receives cruel hoax offer

How very cruel-minded and warped must someone be to make a fake offer of a $40,000 anonymous donation to pay for a sick girl’s cancer treatment. Yes, you read that correctly, the offer was a fake. Just imagine how the teenage girl and her family must have felt when they discovered the offer was, in …