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 👩🦼🏳️🌈
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
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Presenter Ade Adepitan challenges people to spend a week in a wheelchair
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February 2, 2026 at 1:05 PM
I'm sorry but encouraging people to cosplay disability is not the answer
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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.
Baroness Campbell, leading light of the disability rights movement, told the Lords yesterday that a doctor pressured her husband to think about end of life care when she was in hospital with a chest infection. 10 years ago
If doctors do it with her, imagine what they try with the most vulnerable
If doctors do it with her, imagine what they try with the most vulnerable
January 31, 2026 at 4:51 PM
Baroness Campbell, leading light of the disability rights movement, told the Lords yesterday that a doctor pressured her husband to think about end of life care when she was in hospital with a chest infection. 10 years ago
If doctors do it with her, imagine what they try with the most vulnerable
If doctors do it with her, imagine what they try with the most vulnerable
Lots of talk about the Parliament Act but what are the actual chances that the Commons passes the exact same assisted dying bill again?
Presumably it would have to come back as a new PMB or a government bill, both of which could look very different? What am I missing?
Presumably it would have to come back as a new PMB or a government bill, both of which could look very different? What am I missing?
January 30, 2026 at 5:59 PM
Lots of talk about the Parliament Act but what are the actual chances that the Commons passes the exact same assisted dying bill again?
Presumably it would have to come back as a new PMB or a government bill, both of which could look very different? What am I missing?
Presumably it would have to come back as a new PMB or a government bill, both of which could look very different? What am I missing?
I'm looking for a new PA which means my brilliant gang of friends and ex-PAs are filling in and once again I am struck that nondisabled adults don't know the incredible love that is being helped to bed and kissed goodnight on the forehead by your best friend
Care is a beautiful thing
Care is a beautiful thing
January 29, 2026 at 11:39 PM
I'm looking for a new PA which means my brilliant gang of friends and ex-PAs are filling in and once again I am struck that nondisabled adults don't know the incredible love that is being helped to bed and kissed goodnight on the forehead by your best friend
Care is a beautiful thing
Care is a beautiful thing
With all the talk of anti-fascist community building, I wrote about how it’s showing up for the messy, boring, inconvenient stuff that really builds trust and belonging
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Community is inconvenient
And it should be
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January 29, 2026 at 5:15 PM
With all the talk of anti-fascist community building, I wrote about how it’s showing up for the messy, boring, inconvenient stuff that really builds trust and belonging
open.substack.com/pub/lucywebs...
open.substack.com/pub/lucywebs...
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This is, tragically, the logical consequence of Donald Trump and the far-right running on "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" while legacy media and the reactionary elite treating the campaign promises of ethnic cleansing as a joke
I know all eyes are on Minneapolis, but there's a fast-approaching nightmare in Springfield, Ohio.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
Trump is revoking protected status for tens of thousands of Haitians living there on Feb. 3.
Reportedly, on Feb. 4, 1000 ICE agents are arriving to remove this population. Ethnic cleansing.
January 28, 2026 at 11:51 PM
This is, tragically, the logical consequence of Donald Trump and the far-right running on "they're eating the cats, they're eating the dogs" while legacy media and the reactionary elite treating the campaign promises of ethnic cleansing as a joke
Labour needs to have the most local of local candidates so I guess they'll parachute someone in from London
January 27, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Labour needs to have the most local of local candidates so I guess they'll parachute someone in from London
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His ideas & public views have shifted significantly even in the last 12 months.
In March 2025, still argued that Rishi Sunak could be English (national identity) as well as British, without being a member of the English ethnic majority
In Oct 2025, he was arguing that Shabana Mahmood could not be
In March 2025, still argued that Rishi Sunak could be English (national identity) as well as British, without being a member of the English ethnic majority
In Oct 2025, he was arguing that Shabana Mahmood could not be
January 27, 2026 at 5:02 PM
His ideas & public views have shifted significantly even in the last 12 months.
In March 2025, still argued that Rishi Sunak could be English (national identity) as well as British, without being a member of the English ethnic majority
In Oct 2025, he was arguing that Shabana Mahmood could not be
In March 2025, still argued that Rishi Sunak could be English (national identity) as well as British, without being a member of the English ethnic majority
In Oct 2025, he was arguing that Shabana Mahmood could not be
Excited to watch him learn about the many ways twitter is not real life
January 27, 2026 at 3:00 PM
Excited to watch him learn about the many ways twitter is not real life
Why is the Braverman defection the top item on the Ten O'clock News?
January 26, 2026 at 10:04 PM
Why is the Braverman defection the top item on the Ten O'clock News?