We’ve been blown away by the response to my interview with @BBCSport & @KatieFalkingham , thank you so much to everyone who has taken the time to read and engage with it ❤️ millions of views across multiple platforms really is immense. We have since written to @andyburnham , calling on the @UKLabour government to fund research into this horrific illness. I know there’s so much more we could say, but with limited capacity, we’ve tried to focus on the lack of funding, resources in the NHS and how much it’s actually costing the government. As you can see on the slides, it has been drastically underfunded compared to other illnesses and it is currently costing the UK Government far more than it would cost to fund research. ME is most often a post-viral illness. Therefore, since the start of the Covid pandemic, we’ve seen cases increase drastically and they will continue to increase. We need funding into research urgently. With estimates of people with ME being around 1.35 million, this is a lot of lives destroyed. I’ve had thousands of messages on multiple platforms since sharing my story so please bear with me ❤️ Thanks to @ThereForME_UK and @wecrunchme for the stats.

This is such a bizarre reflection. Newsflash. People can recover - even from chronic illnesses. And exercise is generally a really positive thing for health. If a doctor tells you otherwise, I’d get a new doctor. 🫣

Another £36 million today. That's £72 million in 24 hours for our fighting fund. Only @reformparty_uk will take our country back ! gbnews.com/politics/reform-u…

Sunday night in Portsmouth, hundreds of men in balaclavas tried to physically stop an RNLI lifeboat bringing shipwrecked people to shore. When that failed, they blocked the buses taking them to processing instead. The Home Office called it thuggish and intimidating. Even Nigel Farage said he "deplores" grown men hiding their faces to intimidate people on Britain's streets. So here's who these volunteers actually are: Last year alone, RNLI crews launched over 9,000 times and saved 272 lives. Migrant Channel rescues have consistently made up around 1% of RNLI launches in recent years. The other 99%? Swimmers, sailors, kids cut off by the tide. People exactly like the ones a masked mob just tried to stop from reaching dry land. An RNLI crew doesn't ask who's in the water before they go in after them. They never have, not since 1824. Blocking a lifeboat with a mob in balaclavas doesn't stop a crossing. It just risks someone drowning while masked men decide who gets to survive. Retweet if a mob should never get to choose who lives. Reply if you've got an RNLI story of your own. Unless you're here to recycle the "taxi service for migrants" line, in which case save your thumbs the effort, the numbers above already buried it.

'A cohort of young people – somewhat cruelly dubbed “sickfluencers” – want to tell you about their conditions and convince you they are real. 'But, were they not decked out in the accessories of their disease, it would be impossible to perceive the conditions they consider to be so central to their interaction with the world' ⤵️ telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/09…

Here it is folks! Axe the Jeremy Vine Show for pushing negative narratives against disabled people. I need 5 signatures to get this started. Please help! Sign the Petition! c.org/BmTKsSSM6Y via @UKChange

It's fascinating how the people closest to Jeremy Vine are all coming out in his defence. That tells us two things: 1) He is apparently a *completely* different person in private than the one disabled people see on his show. 2) People are remarkably comfortable talking over disabled people and dismissing our experiences. The uproar from the disabled community didn't come from nowhere. His show's account asked, in his name, whether it was "time to crack down" on benefits for sick and disabled people, and whether young disabled people should be called the "sick-note generation". He told his own panel there is something "fishy" behind the rise in people too ill to work, and recounted replying to someone who had just been diagnosed with ADHD with "we haven't got any money". Telling us you know a kinder man in private doesn't undo any of that. We don't watch him in private; we watch the show, and see it's posts. Yes, we know he hosts a talk show, and debate is the format. A host can still correct disinformation and push back on ableist rhetoric. Good hosting includes both. This situation could still end well, and the power to make that happen sits entirely with him. If the private Jeremy is real, here is what he could do with one of the biggest daytime platforms in Britain: Apologise properly: Do it in his own voice, on his own show, for the specific things said in his name. A deleted tweet is a shrug, but an on-air apology is a statement. Challenge the rhetoric: Bring the same energy he brings to everything else. When a guest claims welfare is "out of control," push back with the actual figures. He does it on other topics, so he should do it on ours. Include us: Put disabled people on the panel when the topic is us. Nothing about us without us. Cover unheard stories: Highlight carers in poverty and people losing the support they depend on. Show the human cost behind the statistics his show debates so casually. That is the whole ask. Nobody wants him hounded, and nobody is demanding he disappear. The ask is to be heard instead of talked over, and he is in a better position than almost anyone in British broadcasting to show what listening looks like.

We've seen the response to the announcement of Jeremy Vine as host of this year's Carers UK Awards and want to address it directly.

I don’t get why people think you can live a life of luxury on PIP, the maximum amount you can get per month is £778.40. How exactly are people meant to be supporting their supposed lavish holiday lifestyles on less than £800 a month?