Recovery in the Bin
recoveryinthebin.org
A critical theorist and activist collective of survivors, service users, disabled people.
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinDWP considers chatbot work coaches as AI-fueled job losses loom
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- The owners of Alton Towers are a bunch of bastards www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
- “The government’s most senior welfare official has been accused of presiding over a “culture of complacency” that led to thousands of unpaid carers inadvertently running up huge benefit debts” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by Recovery in the Binso hang on a minute, the UK (significantly, erm, “represented“ in negotiations by Mandelson) has just signed a trade deal with the US that gives into their demands for NHS to pay way more for medicines…. & yet Streeting won’t even tell us the barest details? 🤯 www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by Recovery in the Bin“Creepy, unsafe and spying” This report is written to accompany our complaint to Oxford Health. We are asking questions as to whether personal connections and vested interests may have influenced decisions pertaining to the technology stopoxevision.wordpress.com/2026/02/03/c...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinYou couldn’t make this stuff up. Robert Jenrick and Suella Braverman accidentally voted with Labour to abolish the two-child benefit cap tonight after entering the wrong lobby!
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinDWP insults disabled people with steering group for Timms Review www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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- Reposted by Recovery in the BinNEW: What’s happening in the US is TECHNOFASCISM. It’s fascism + surveillance technologies. Palantir is playing a central role. And the UK is next in line. My latest for @thenerve.news 1/ www.thenerve.news/p/technofasc...
- Fancy applying for and getting a job as an absolute bastard and then leaving because you feel despised 😭 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinI wrote last year about the growing movement against empathy from both the Christian nationalist right and the Elon Musk/techno-pseudoscientific right I called it an attack on “our capacity to recognize and respond to suffering” and “a flashing red light warning of fascist intent”
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- Reposted by Recovery in the BinAt NSUN, our policy work in 2025 was dominated by the fight against cruel and dangerous proposals for welfare reform. In this briefing we share a recap of what happened last year, look at what the government is doing next and establish our positioning and plans. www.nsun.org.uk/news/policy-...
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- Vulnerable people are missing out on benefits because they are being directed to online calculators they cannot use www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- Solidarity with @rachelcdailey.bsky.social whose longstanding Twitter /X account has been hacked. A brilliant activist who is clearly being targeted by the kinds of people we’re all here fighting against. Those who hate disabled people, & thrive on spreading hatred & division, will not win.
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- Philip Glass is never wrong about anything www.independent.co.uk/arts-enterta...
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- America is a fascist state www.thecanary.co/global/world...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinPoverty is deepening. 🔎 Our #UKPoverty2026 report was launched this morning. People in very deep poverty now make up the biggest group of people in poverty, at 6.8 million people. This is unacceptable for the fifth richest country in the world, and it has consequences.
- “[The report] noted that in 2023/24, 6.8 million people - almost half of all of those in poverty - were considered to be in "very deep poverty".” news.sky.com/story/number...
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- “Earlier, in an official statement it now says was “sent out in error”, the party said: “It was always a matter of when, not if, Suella would defect. The Conservatives did all we could to look after Suella’s mental health, but she was clearly very unhappy.” www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinFree high resolution download poster 👇👇 we.tl/t-YtIWY4Y5qM
- “A secret team inside the Department for Work and Pensions (DWP) is seeding stories in the mainstream media to fuel the bullshit narrative around rampant benefit fraud.” www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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- According to research from Citizens Advice,more than 80% of its advisers say that people currently eligible for the highest rate of the ‘new style’ ESA–which the government is planning to scrap– would be unlikely to return to work if & when they lose their benefits. www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
- “MP’s have criticised the “absolutely unacceptable behaviour” of senior welfare officials over the carer’s allowance scandal in which hundreds of thousands of unpaid carers were unfairly landed with huge debts” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- “Demand for care is so intense that hospitals are having to turn dining rooms, staff kitchens and rooms for viewing deceased people into overspill care areas” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinToday we released our open appeal to the Timms review panellists, asking them to raise our concerns. No matter what the review concludes, the final say rests with ministers. DPAC Cymru will do our part to ensure that disabled people & carers are prepared to defeat the Government again if necessary.
- “An NHS trust spent over £2.4m on a controversial surveillance system that films vulnerable inpatients 24/7, despite a damning internal report finding major issues with the technology and the company that owns it” novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/n...
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- Reposted by Recovery in the BinYet another huge contract, awarded without any competitive bidding process, to Wes Streeting's favourite NHS supplier, the Hard Right US surveillance tech specialists Palantir, for military decision making capability.
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- “The CSJ recommended fit note responsibility be moved away from ‘overstretched’ GPs and into a new Work and Health Service and ‘embed employment and occupational health support at the point of sign-off’.” www.pulsetoday.co.uk/news/clinica...
- We live in dystopian times, where jobseekers are forced to spend, 35 hours a week searching and applying for jobs that are often non-existent, advertised to create the illusion that the company is doing well enough to take on new employees www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
- Reposted by Recovery in the Binmore than 50,000 supported homes – that’s equivalent to 1 in 10 – are at imminent risk of closure. inews.co.uk/news/i-fear-... archive archive.is/fKLU4
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- Toby Young decided to take on Bash Back, who decided to bash back in style…. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2026...
- “Housing charities…had seen cases of people over-60 developing health problems from being forced to sleep in their car for months, having to sleep on camp beds in emergency shelters & seeking homelessness support even while suffering illnesses such as cancer.” www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
- Despite how difficult and dark things can sometimes feel at the moment, we would like to wish everyone here a Happy New Year & all the very best for 2026. Thank you for being here & for being who you are. Lots of love from everyone at RiTB
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- Abolish the DWP www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/cost-of...
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- “Days after the publication of the review, the DWP’s top civil servant in charge of carers’ allowance, Neil Couling, said carers themselves were at fault for the decade-long failures.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinMy favourite thing about this post is a for-profit company likening their surveillance tech to the invention of stethoscopes or safety equipment in Formula 1 cars. "Over time, the radical becomes reasonable", they say. 1/2
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- In a crowded field, Richard Tice is one of the most vile politicians in this country www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinDog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
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- Lammy’s just going to let those hunger strikers die isn’t he?
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- True that…. theconversation.com/what-looks-l...
- Patients who experience a sudden dental crisis such as a broken tooth, abscess or severe tooth pain are meant to be able to get help from their dentist or by calling NHS 111…research by Healthwatch England shows…people in pain are unable to get an appointment www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
- Reposted by Recovery in the BinVery sad that I felt I had no choice but to resign from The Infinite Monkey Cage - a victory for the transphobes and other bigots - I did it because so much of the media has chosen to believe the kind and empathetic people are a fiction - they are real and so often unrepresented.
- The abuse of mental health patients has been standard practice in psychiatric settings for decades now. It will only stop when someone in a position to do something about it takes it seriously & considers all patients in whatever settings as worthy of care & compassion www.bbc.com/news/article...
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- The work&pensions secretary has bragged about cutting disabled people’s support,3 days after launching a child povertystrategy which warned that more than a million children in families where someone was disabled were living in “deep material poverty”.” www.disabilitynewsservice.com/mcfadden-bra...
- “…the report shows how the top 10% own 75% of all global wealth…the ultra-rich 0.001% control three times the wealth of the poorest half of humanity.” www.theguardian.com/news/2025/de...
- Elon Musk has been posting similar recently. It’s increasingly clear that the endgame for these wealth-hoarding psychopaths is a wordwide fascist oligarchy where dissent isn’t tolerated and freedom of speech only extends to agreeing with them. www.independent.co.uk/news/world/a...
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