By Scarlett Red Four years. That is how long Tom Boyd gave his time, his effort, and his loyalty to Waitrose. He stocked shelves, smiled at customers, and showed up every week, for free . His family says he clocked up more than 600 hours as a volunteer. But the moment they asked if Tom could be paid for the same job he had been doing for years, his place on the rota vanished. The official story is polite...The company says they were reviewing volunteering roles, that changes

By Scarlett Red It started this morning as an innocent conversation in a WhatsApp group while I was supposed to be working. I asked myself whether AI could ever become sentient. Before I realised it, I had fallen headfirst into a theological migraine. If we created GPT, does that make us its gods? And if so, what kind of gods are we: benevolent, curious, or catastrophically underqualified? The remnant amateur Python programmer in me wants to say no. It is just code. Lines and

By Scarlett Red Two people have been killed and three are seriously injured after a car ramming and stabbing outside Heaton Park Hebrew...

As a parent of an adult with learning disabilities, I know the fight all too well. This is not a one-off tragedy but a systemic failure...

Our government is now pushing to build 10,000 homes in Crews Hill, paving over the garden centres. But this isn’t a bold solution. It’s a...

I heard a toilet flush during my Disability Access to Work scheme call. The DWP employee was literally defecating while discussing my...

Doctors do have a right to strike, but are they right to strike? That question hit me like a diagnosis I didn't want to hear. As a...

By Scarlett Red The UK government just spent half a million pounds of taxpayer money making a dot bigger and changing its colour to...

Analysis by Scarlett Red The pound fell almost 1% in minutes. British borrowing costs spiked to levels not seen since October 2022. The...

Twenty-eight point four percent.. That's the employment gap between disabled and non-disabled people in the UK. While 81% of non-disabled...

By Scarlett Red Pride began as a protest, a loud and colourful declaration that love is love and everyone deserves equality. It was...

By Scarlett Red    Picture this: someone with Parkinson's attempting to scan their weekly shop at a Tesco self-checkout. Their hands...

By Scarlett Red Right, let’s talk about the jab that everyone and their dog walker seems to be whispering about - Ozempic. Once hailed as...

By Scarlett Red I have been stuck in non-moving lanes of the M1 northbound again this morning. It’s a near-daily frustration for many of...

By Scarlett Red The UK education system is facing a growing crisis. One that disproportionately affects children with Special Educational...

By Scarlett Red This week, Sadiq Khan announced he will “pedestrianise Oxford Street…as quickly as possible,” backed by two-thirds of...

By Scarlett Red Wayne Pugh wanted to celebrate Father’s Day. That’s all. No campaign. No protest. Just a meal with his family at the...

“You don’t look disabled.”  I hear it often—from strangers, colleagues, even interviewers. They think it’s a compliment. It isn’t. It’s a...

Opinion by Scarlett Red There’s no easy way to say this: the planned cuts to PIP are deeply worrying. I’ve worked in journalism and...