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Frances Ryan

The Guardian

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Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone

Labour’s Send reforms get this right: disabled children in mainstream schools is transformative for everyone

When I was 11, a woman at the hospital asked me what school I was starting in September. I still remember her surprise when I told her I would be...

26.02.2026 10

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Frances Ryan

Given the toxicity of social media, a moral question now faces all of us: is it still ethical to use it?

In a week during which Keir Starmer has been under pressure to resign, cabinet ministers took to X to show their support. “We’ve all been made to...

14.02.2026 10

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Frances Ryan

Disabled people driving luxury cars on your dime? Just the latest rightwing lie peddled by Labour

08.12.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

The two-child limit is abolished at last. Watch out for the narrative that will follow

27.11.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Labour’s rebuttal to the Green party this week sums up the double standard that dogs our politics

12.11.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Just beads in a glass jar: this is how the Tories dehumanise migrants and those in need

30.10.2025 4

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Frances Ryan

It’s Badenoch’s Tory show, 2025: like Britain seeing an old flame and remembering why we blocked their number

06.10.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Starmer should have conference in his hands – instead, power is slipping through his fingers

26.09.2025 9

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Frances Ryan

Trump will soon be gone but Britain’s problems will remain. Starmer’s invitation was a big mistake

18.09.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Did Labour really think it was a good idea to let Farage hijack the summer headlines?

01.09.2025 5

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Frances Ryan

Is it wrong to throw a birthday party for my dog?

28.08.2025 4

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Frances Ryan

The immigration problem that really concerns me? US celebrities

27.08.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Young people want to ‘go private’ – I’m a lifelong supporter of the NHS, but I can see why

20.08.2025 6

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Frances Ryan

As asylum seekers are engulfed by slurs and lies, our leaders shrug. Truly, this is shameful

12.08.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Britain is lowering the voting age to 16! Meanwhile in our colonial outpost

23.07.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Look at the rise of measles in England and ask yourself: have we learned a single thing from Covid?

23.07.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

Disabled people want to live a full life. Instead, we’re forced to scrap over our right to food and a wash

15.07.2025 7

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Frances Ryan

This ruthless pursuit of disabled people has damaged Labour – no matter what happens next

26.06.2025 7

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Frances Ryan

These things happen all the time to people struggling – nobody cares

16.06.2025 7

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Frances Ryan

British women are being jailed under archaic abortion laws. MPs can act to end that this week

16.06.2025 8

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Frances Ryan

Watch Labour’s flip-flopping on winter fuel and benefits, and you’ll see who’s really considered important

26.05.2025 6

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Frances Ryan

Look at how Reform speaks about minorities. Why would Labour want to mimic this nasty party?

05.05.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It’s time to hear from them

17.04.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too

19.03.2025 7

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Frances Ryan

Long Covid is the pandemic’s dark shadow. Why does no one in power in Britain want to talk about it?

17.03.2025 6

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Frances Ryan

Labour mollifies the rich, targets disabled people and claims moral justification. There isn’t any

10.03.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

As Labour touts more brutal cuts to benefits, how is this different from life under the Tories?

05.02.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

A reader with a terminal illness emailed in despair. What she told me should shock us all

28.01.2025 10

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Frances Ryan

During the holidays, reports of domestic violence surge. But what if next year could be different?

There is a classic Christmas episode of EastEnders in which much-loved character Little Mo is abused by her husband, Trevor. After visiting her...

02.01.2025 4

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Frances Ryan

Gavin and Stacey’s Christmas special was a joyful reminder that TV can still be a shared experience

Settling down to watch the finale of Gavin and Stacey on Christmas Day, I felt as if I were stepping into a time machine travelling to the mid-00s....

26.12.2024 5

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Frances Ryan

Welcome to Britain’s Victorian Christmas, where volunteers in Santa hats fulfil the basic functions of the state

“Will Santa find me?” a subject line in my inbox asked last week. I wondered briefly if my niece had moved to email with her questions about the...

23.12.2024 10

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Frances Ryan

Meet the ‘sickfluencers’ of TikTok – and don’t be fooled by the outrage obscuring the real scandal

Have you heard of the “sickfluencers”? I admit the phenomenon had passed me by until this week. “Sickfluencer” sounds like a term to describe the...

07.12.2024 6

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Frances Ryan