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Sheffield Festival of Debate 2025
MediaNorth Online Event – Thursday 8th May 6pm to 7.30pm
Framed: The Demonisation of Disability
Keir Starmer is planning to unveil more then £6 billion of welfare cuts which will see far tougher tests imposed for a key disability benefit. An article in The Times predicted a ‘radical overhaul of welfare’ that could see hundreds of thousands of disabled and chronically ill people lose their benefits. This event will explain what the government plans are, what impact they will have, and what can be done to challenge and change them.
Speakers:
Rachel Broady is a researcher and lecturer at Liverpool John Moores University, and was a journalist for over 30 years. She produced the National Union of Journalists’ Guide to Reporting Poverty, and more recently, Reporting Poverty: A Guide for Media Workers.
James Morrison is the author of two books: Scroungers (2019) and Left Behind : Reimagining Britain’s Socially Excluded (2022) and many articles analysing the toxic anti-welfare rhetoric of recent decades.
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