“The systems do have biases; it’s whether they are biases that are not allowed in the law.”
DWP bring in discriminatory AI to detect ‘fraud’
Tag: DWP
DWP renews CAPITA contract despite deaths
The government has awarded to Capita, on the same day that the company was linked to the death of a young disabled mum.
DWP plans to further dehumanise disabled people
DWP decisions around deciding fitness for work and work-related activity through the WCA have been linked to countless deaths over the last 15 year…
Call for solidarity: Defend the rights of disabled campaigners
In advance of planned protests by Extinction Rebellion this week, Netpol is calling on the Metropolitan Police to prevent a repeat of the systemic …
Coffey’s DWP watered down key parts of plan to prevent suicides
Away from the spectacle of the government imploding, Freedom republishes an investigation by Disability News Service (DNS) into the effects of Tory…
Means Testing in the Time of Corona
An open letter to the Secretary of State for Work and Pensions and the Senior Coroner for Inner North London, from Joe Reynolds.
I am still a cliché
This text talks about social benefits, but with a focus on people who have mental health issues due to being abused as children: a group hardly con…
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Starmer’s downfall – long time coming yet inevitable
The outgoing PM is a textbook example of a public figure who jettisoned principles in the search for power ~ Paul Gravett ~ The revolving door of U…
EU votes to speed up deportations
Removal of undocumented people becomes easier as far-right international continues to rise ~ Blade Runner ~ An alliance of centre-right and far-rig…
Notes from the US: Sadistic idiocy
MAGA apologists square multiple circles just in order to ‘live with themselves’ ~ Louis Further ~ A new study by members of the School …
Dissident Russian artist murdered in Poland
Assassination of Semyon Skrepetsky is a threatening message to the entire Russian opposition in Europe ~ Nikita Ivansky ~ Bashkir artist Semyon Skr…
Lament for a lost revolution
A century since the General Strike of 1926 ~ punkacademic ~ In the opening week of May 1926, Britain had its first, last, and only General Strike.
