I’m exhausted. I’m exhausted by six years of chronic illness and seven years of Tory rule. It seems like every time I go on Twitter – and most days I don’t go on at all – there are multiple new items of the harm this political party is causing to my friends. I don’t feel I can carry on. This is why I often avoid any news outlet. But I’m also a disability researcher, and I can’t remain ignorant of what’s going on. I have to keep abreast of the major changes. So I check the BBC

The government still doesn’t know what its talking about. But this time it’s almost seven years on from when it gained power, and its politicians no longer have the right to plead ignorance. They do not have the right to remain ignorant on matters of great importance over which they hold the power. A spokesperson for the government said that mental illness is not a disability. Leaving aside his personal knowledge of mental illness – which appears to be restricted to non-disab