Frances Ryan
Columnist and Journalist at The Guardian
Guardian journalist. Commentator of the Year 2024. Author of Who Wants Normal? (pre-order) and Crippled (out now). E: [email protected]
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1 week ago |
theguardian.com | Frances Ryan
You might have seen their faces. Every few months nowadays, another woman appears in a British newspaper charged with a suspected illegal abortion. Often the woman looks pale and gaunt. Sometimes she hides behind sunglasses as she bows her head. The photographs of these women walking into court feel akin to a public shaming, where the stocks are replaced by a breaking news banner, but the judgment remains the same. If this sounds like a punishment from a different time, it’s because it is.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Frances Ryan
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Frances Ryan
More than 100 of the UK’s most high-profile disabled people, including Liz Carr, Rosie Jones, Ruth Madeley and Cherylee Houston, have called on the prime minister to abandon “inhumane and catastrophic plans to cut disability benefits”.
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1 month ago |
msn.com | Frances Ryan
Microsoft Cares About Your PrivacyMicrosoft and our third-party vendors use cookies to store and access information such as unique IDs to deliver, maintain and improve our services and ads. If you agree, MSN and Microsoft Bing will personalise the content and ads that you see. You can select ‘I Accept’ to consent to these uses or click on ‘Manage preferences’ to review your options and exercise your right to object to Legitimate Interest where used.
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1 month ago |
theguardian.com | Frances Ryan
In the hours after Keir Starmer’s partial U-turn on the winter fuel allowance, there was much speculation about whether it would lead to other benefit cuts being reversed. As Labour announced it wouldchange tack on support for pensioners, would the government still vote to cut disabled people’s personal independence payments next month?
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