Lucy Webster
@lucywebster.bsky.social
Disability advocate | Journalist | Author | Public speaker | Community organiser | Rep'd by Curtis Brown | My first book, THE VIEW FROM DOWN HERE, a very personal memoir of ableism and sexism, is out now 👩🦼🏳️🌈
Five years ago a dating agency told me people didn't want to date wheelchair users
I tweeted the email, it went viral, I quit my job, wrote a book, found community, came out and fell back in love with life. I am grateful for that
And - I am also still heartbroken
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I tweeted the email, it went viral, I quit my job, wrote a book, found community, came out and fell back in love with life. I am grateful for that
And - I am also still heartbroken
x.com/Lucy_Webster...
February 10, 2026 at 3:12 PM
Five years ago a dating agency told me people didn't want to date wheelchair users
I tweeted the email, it went viral, I quit my job, wrote a book, found community, came out and fell back in love with life. I am grateful for that
And - I am also still heartbroken
x.com/Lucy_Webster...
I tweeted the email, it went viral, I quit my job, wrote a book, found community, came out and fell back in love with life. I am grateful for that
And - I am also still heartbroken
x.com/Lucy_Webster...
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The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
This is pretty menacing.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
Sarah Pochin wrote to Bangor's university student run debating society requesting that she attend to "answer questions from students."
When they said "no" Reform rolled all it's tanks onto the lawns and said they'll cut funding to the entire university if they win.
February 10, 2026 at 10:31 AM
The law on universities and free speech prevents speakers from being *disinvited after they have been invited*. It does not require universities to provide a platform to whoever demands one.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Let's not mince words: the threat to cut funding to every university who disagrees with them is fascist.
Why are the stories on Duolingo so weird
February 10, 2026 at 12:55 AM
Why are the stories on Duolingo so weird
I sort of want it to be Ed but I'm not sure my brain could cope with such irrefutable proof that the last decade could have been avoided
February 9, 2026 at 2:40 PM
I sort of want it to be Ed but I'm not sure my brain could cope with such irrefutable proof that the last decade could have been avoided
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I see we're back to "Johnson resigned because of a party" and not because he employed a known sex pest, lied about what he knew, and more than half his cabinet resigned as a result.
February 9, 2026 at 1:27 PM
I see we're back to "Johnson resigned because of a party" and not because he employed a known sex pest, lied about what he knew, and more than half his cabinet resigned as a result.
Can we finally stop labelling random men/political advisers 'geniuses' for winning elections they couldn't possibly lose
February 8, 2026 at 3:11 PM
Can we finally stop labelling random men/political advisers 'geniuses' for winning elections they couldn't possibly lose
Starmer et al haven't learned the key lesson from Johnson have they? The curse of Too Little Too Late
February 8, 2026 at 2:52 PM
Starmer et al haven't learned the key lesson from Johnson have they? The curse of Too Little Too Late
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Have Keir Starmer’s allies considered…just getting better at their jobs?
Will Keir Starmer use his nuclear option to try to head off a leadership challenge? www.independent.co.uk/voices/keir-...
Will Keir Starmer use his nuclear option to try to head off a leadership challenge?
The prime minister’s allies have hinted that he will call a general election, says John Rentoul
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 4:13 PM
Have Keir Starmer’s allies considered…just getting better at their jobs?
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So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
Reform by-election candidate suggested people who don’t have kids should pay more tax
Exclusive: The Reform politician’s suggestion would ‘punish millions of women and strip them of their basic dignity to choose’, Labour’s deputy leader has warned
www.independent.co.uk
February 7, 2026 at 7:58 AM
So as I struggled with miscarriage after miscarriage before having my 🌈 baby, Reform would seriously think I should pay more tax during that agony.
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
This policy isn’t just a slippery slope to a handmaids tale dystopian future - it’s a deliberate step towards it
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...
While the Mandelson affair calls attention to the absolute failure of official vetting for personal appointments by the PM, a reminder that the only country-wide oversight for assisted dying will come from a commissioner... appointed by the PM
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
February 6, 2026 at 12:08 PM
While the Mandelson affair calls attention to the absolute failure of official vetting for personal appointments by the PM, a reminder that the only country-wide oversight for assisted dying will come from a commissioner... appointed by the PM
What could possibly go wrong?
What could possibly go wrong?
Just your periodic reminder that the assisted dying bill allows doctors to raise the option with anyone, including those who have not so much as hinted at wanting to die, including people with learning disabilities
Does that sound extremely safe to you?
Does that sound extremely safe to you?
February 5, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Just your periodic reminder that the assisted dying bill allows doctors to raise the option with anyone, including those who have not so much as hinted at wanting to die, including people with learning disabilities
Does that sound extremely safe to you?
Does that sound extremely safe to you?
I'm a community organiser and anti-ableism writer/campaigner but I was a political reporter which means today my brain is flitting between
- booking a venue
- creating a guide for community building
- trying to work out what happens to assisted dying if Starmer goes
- following the Mandelson scandal
- booking a venue
- creating a guide for community building
- trying to work out what happens to assisted dying if Starmer goes
- following the Mandelson scandal
February 5, 2026 at 5:40 PM
I'm a community organiser and anti-ableism writer/campaigner but I was a political reporter which means today my brain is flitting between
- booking a venue
- creating a guide for community building
- trying to work out what happens to assisted dying if Starmer goes
- following the Mandelson scandal
- booking a venue
- creating a guide for community building
- trying to work out what happens to assisted dying if Starmer goes
- following the Mandelson scandal
Possibly will never recover from my unhinged school's equally unhinged decision to teach a bunch of very depressed teenager girls the entirety of Silvia Plath's work
This is a fun game - good summary here of why while I love Much Ado About Nothing it is incredibly high up my list of 'plays that absolutely should not be taught in school'. (In English. As theatre, fine)
Trying to think what the other 'god don't try and *teach* that' classics are for me.
Trying to think what the other 'god don't try and *teach* that' classics are for me.
Less of a fan of Much Ado About Nothing because we did it at school and B&B insist upon themselves especially when you have to read their stuff a lot.
February 5, 2026 at 5:05 PM
Possibly will never recover from my unhinged school's equally unhinged decision to teach a bunch of very depressed teenager girls the entirety of Silvia Plath's work
If he really believed that Keir was what the party/country needed, wouldn't McSweeney resign?
February 5, 2026 at 2:22 PM
If he really believed that Keir was what the party/country needed, wouldn't McSweeney resign?
I know I keep saying this but I am fascinated by the cognitive dissonance of people on the left who think Reform could win in 2029 and would pose a real threat to minorities (true) but are still supporting assisted dying
Is there perhaps a minority group they don't care about?
Is there perhaps a minority group they don't care about?
February 5, 2026 at 12:38 PM
I know I keep saying this but I am fascinated by the cognitive dissonance of people on the left who think Reform could win in 2029 and would pose a real threat to minorities (true) but are still supporting assisted dying
Is there perhaps a minority group they don't care about?
Is there perhaps a minority group they don't care about?
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Aliya Rahman told ICE “I’m disabled”.
Their reply? “Too late”.
They smashed her window, cut her seatbelt and violently dragged her from her car.
They just beat up a deaf teen for “not following orders”
They dragged a blind man across the pavement.
Fascism & eugenics go hand in hand.
Their reply? “Too late”.
They smashed her window, cut her seatbelt and violently dragged her from her car.
They just beat up a deaf teen for “not following orders”
They dragged a blind man across the pavement.
Fascism & eugenics go hand in hand.
February 5, 2026 at 4:43 AM
Aliya Rahman told ICE “I’m disabled”.
Their reply? “Too late”.
They smashed her window, cut her seatbelt and violently dragged her from her car.
They just beat up a deaf teen for “not following orders”
They dragged a blind man across the pavement.
Fascism & eugenics go hand in hand.
Their reply? “Too late”.
They smashed her window, cut her seatbelt and violently dragged her from her car.
They just beat up a deaf teen for “not following orders”
They dragged a blind man across the pavement.
Fascism & eugenics go hand in hand.
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Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
February 4, 2026 at 2:24 PM
Bezos isn't destroying the Washington Post because it isn't profitable. He's destroying the Washington Post because he's calculated that a robust free press threatens the ability of his class to warp society around their interests
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Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
February 5, 2026 at 2:48 AM
Jeff Bezos’s wealth has increased an average of $70 million every day of 2026, meaning that he could have offset The Post’s losses with what he’s made since Monday.
"I had no reason to think he was lying" is a weird take when the man in question is mostly famous for lying
February 5, 2026 at 11:53 AM
"I had no reason to think he was lying" is a weird take when the man in question is mostly famous for lying
If Starmer goes, does that do enough to take the political wind out of the assisted dying bill's sails?
February 4, 2026 at 8:45 PM
If Starmer goes, does that do enough to take the political wind out of the assisted dying bill's sails?
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One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
February 3, 2026 at 2:39 PM
One by one, Europeans mentioned in the Epstein files who still hold political office are beginning to resign or are being forced out of office.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
Meanwhile, ruled by an administration almost entirely made up of Epstein associates, the US carries on as if nothing really happened.
If the best insults you can think of for Trump or ICE or whoever involve comparing them to intellectually disabled or incontinent people (seeing a lot of the latter today), you are not as enlightened as you think you are, sorry
February 2, 2026 at 3:46 PM
If the best insults you can think of for Trump or ICE or whoever involve comparing them to intellectually disabled or incontinent people (seeing a lot of the latter today), you are not as enlightened as you think you are, sorry
I'm sorry but encouraging people to cosplay disability is not the answer
metro.co.uk/2026/02/02/p...
metro.co.uk/2026/02/02/p...
Presenter Ade Adepitan challenges people to spend a week in a wheelchair
metro.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I'm sorry but encouraging people to cosplay disability is not the answer
metro.co.uk/2026/02/02/p...
metro.co.uk/2026/02/02/p...
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I think people in need of assisted dying legislation have been let down by their advocates. This has been a rushed and damaging process. I’m not sure you can reasonably blame a bill’s opponents for the shortcoming of your own process. It’s all a bit of a sad mess. 7/7
February 1, 2026 at 11:54 AM
I think people in need of assisted dying legislation have been let down by their advocates. This has been a rushed and damaging process. I’m not sure you can reasonably blame a bill’s opponents for the shortcoming of your own process. It’s all a bit of a sad mess. 7/7
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This is an absolutely incredible example of someone telling on himself, because for almost all of his life Matthew Goodwin craved nothing more than exactly this. He boasted for years of being the “youngest full professor of politics”, and then applied for post after post at more prestigious unis.
Reform politician Matthew Goodwin tells the Sunday Times that he would "rather shoot myself in the head" than be at dinner with Nick Robinson and Mary Beard, and the last thing the ex-acadenuc would ever have wanted would be to be a Professor at some Oxford college "backwater with zero influence"
You dont win 'em all! Reform's Matt Goodwin in Sunday Times: 'Most .. people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head'. Hang on, I'm not THAT bad!Nerds sometimes have a (thoughtful!) point.
February 1, 2026 at 12:07 PM
This is an absolutely incredible example of someone telling on himself, because for almost all of his life Matthew Goodwin craved nothing more than exactly this. He boasted for years of being the “youngest full professor of politics”, and then applied for post after post at more prestigious unis.