Saba Salman

No need to read it to know what it says about support for learning disabled and/or autistic people: -people are failed -we're concerned Meanwhile: 'Disabled people continue to die prematurely while society fails to act': communitylivingmagazine.com/social-murde... www.cqc.org.uk/publications...

RIP another council-owned housing company. Side note: fave headline this week sits atop the Essex district story: 'Epping useless' ✨

Chaos in Washington The new Private Eye is out now.

Love to see how the playlist rules work on this quite unique concept. Does the restriction extend to producers, guest artists or covers by artists originally done by pesky foreigners? Still, such a relief British music is finally coming to the masses with this 'Fearless Champion' of the tradition.

Eye Told You So… Ministers to send inspectors into Lord (Ben) Houchen’s Tees Valley authority over high debt, rising borrowing levels and its financial relationship with the publicly owned Teesside International Airport, according to the FT. Eye readers knew this already.

NEW POST: The government must not ignore stark warnings about lack of mainstream SEND capacity reported by its own research. @tanialt.bsky.social waded through them so you don't have to www.specialneedsjungle.com/government-m...

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New review: 'One chapter was especially hard to read...how systemic and institutional racism often outweighs disability for children of colour, making it difficult to secure even a diagnosis because they're assumed to be 'difficult'. The statistics are horrifying.' www.linkedin.com/feed/update/...

Touting yourself as a party of govt when your councils are imploding & your 'strategy' is a bad apples line, moaning of disproportionate scrutiny & 'due process' is 'say sorry; move on'. Plus, world's smallest violin for Pochin, for whom the big boys club was a shock. www.itv.com/news/2026-10...

Years ago a fellow news reporter asked me why on earth I chose to cover local and regional politics given it's 'so boring'... Anyways, here's some bits about booze, brawls, hypocritical jet set hobnobbing and a rubbish (literally) £147m white elephant.

Man City in cheating shock The new Private Eye is out now.

NEW stories, from building safety campaigners in London to a flap about football in Wyre Forest ⬇️

Bad news for Reform as Nigel Farage’s Clacton by-election after-party, “Farage Fest”, flouted licensing rules and the party failed to get Tendring council’s permission for the 11pm-11am bender at a local airfield.

Of all the people to discuss the decline of print with, Amol Rajan took to George Osborne’s podcast. The man who had a disastrous run editing the Evening Standard and who took the Foreign Office funding away from the BBC World Service. ➡️ Watch Page 94, the Private Eye podcast: youtu.be/_CQW3brAeiE

🎧 New PAGE 94 Podcast OUT NOW This week: GREEN FINGERS The team discuss the Green Party's latest appearance in the Eye, Donald Trump's completely professional relationship with an attractive young aide, and the BBC's doomed future without Amol Rajan. Watch: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_CQW...

Well well well: Leaked emails show Mothin Ali got his extra local allowance “to help make ends meet” - no mention of his local role. And the Green Party is threatening to sue us for reporting this story. Well done @braddeasjourno.bsky.social theexchange.news/leaked-docum...

A curious comment from Nigel Farage that, under Reform, the Tories’ Somerset council candidate (former neo-Nazi Joshua Bonehill-Paine, who later quit his candidacy) would have “been axed in 30 seconds”. 🧵1/3

It is two years since Bill Trotter died in hospital after what his family says was a catalogue of failures and cover-ups. 🧵1/5

Top rot from the new Eye: including this bad penny and more ⬇️

New old sayings about the weather The new Private Eye is out now.

A cautionary devolution tale: hundreds of millions of pounds invested in Teesside but benefiting a couple of local businesssmen rather than the region, thanks to mayor Houchen. Full @privateeyenews.bsky.social report from last year online here: www.private-eye.co.uk/special-repo...

My dad & sister rely on social care so for me, PM's already raised a low bar (22 reviews in 30 yrs) but: -remember kids/working age adults -crack down on profit hungry private 'care' firms -include more than the usual bods in the Big Conversation -rebrand it DSCH* *not really but elevate the SC bit

A bit about my new job 😊 #LearningDisability #HealthInequalities #LearningDisabilityPhysician @rcphysicians.bsky.social @kencourtenay.bsky.social @sabasalman.com @communitylivingmagazine.com communitylivingmagazine.com/equity-at-th...

Welcome back to MHCLG Rayner! Ready to push of Burnham's collaborative 'pulling together' agenda? 'standards are deteriorating, behaviour is worsening, and current mechanisms are not strong enough to address it' 🥊 from a story in the last Private Eye/Rotten Boroughs solace.org.uk/news_and_pre...

Another push for this gem of a quarterly and its deliberately quirky cover shot (with a story of choice and agency behind it)🔽 Highlights include: - equity in healthcare - disability and ethnicity double discrimination - why language matters - why we need real homes (not 'facilities' or 'settings')

What do the new issue of Private Eye and Charli xcx's new album have in common? They're both on sale this week! IT'S PRIVATE EYE WEEK. New edition in shops and with 365 party girls from Wednesday.

Early hope Cooper won't overlook the SC bit of the brief, because: - Casey Commission (despite elongated timeline) - Burnham's pledge to prioritise social care - junior minister focus on early intervention (Sure Start) & preventative agenda in health www.gov.uk/government/m...

🔽@hannahfearn.bsky.social 💯does justice to the topic of inequalities for learning disabled people of colour. She reflects both the pain and joy in my book, Double Discrimination & puts my sister at the heart of it: 'the depth and profundity of Raana’s inner life' hqm.hqnetwork.co.uk/saba-salman-...

This is essential work led by Prof Sara Ryan at Manchester Metropolitan University #SocialMurder www.mmu.ac.uk/news-and-eve...

It's a bit shit - no it really is, read the Orkney poop story - sneak peek on the website but full rot in the current issue) 🔽

⬇️ the overlooked in an already overlooked population. Utterly depressing and enraging

Embarrassment for the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea, which spent two and a half years pursuing a resident for flouting planning rules with his “unsightly” rooftop screen, only for a government inspector to find that Conservative-run RBKC had already approved it. Three times. 🧵1/2

Horrific systemic failure exposed yet again, essentially, by the very people who suffered these unimaginable wrongs. All in the face of a cover up, neglect, incompetence, racism, discrimination, contempt and harassment (not my words, but those in the inquiry report). www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Britain sheds a Keir (surely tear? Ed) The new Private Eye is out now.

This was a fun evening, with my sister Raana and so many awesome people who influenced, supported and encouraged my book, Double Discrimination. At the brilliant inclusive, creative and collaborative @citylit.bsky.social

New for @gpadmoreinstitute.bsky.social ‘I was never taught about black history at my special school,’ researcher Paul Christian told me. ‘As an adult, this information wasn’t available in a format I could understand… I feel I lost a part of myself’. ⬇️ www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org/news-and-eve...

Paul Christian collaborated with the GPI to create easy read documents for people with learning disabilities. This work is now part of Double Discrimination, a new book by the journalist Saba Salman. The easy read documents on collections at the GPI can be found at www.georgepadmoreinstitute.org

Say what now? ‘He added that it “certainly hasn’t” been the case that the voice of “the white majority” had been heard properly in recent times’ 🫪 www.theguardian.com/media/2026/j...

A reminder in this piece that in 2023, Jenrick ordered brightly coloured children’s murals at two ‘processing’ centres to be painted over because they were deemed “too welcoming” for children. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...

📢Why we need to talk about ‘race’ and learning disability - by the people who know. Paul Christian, a Black activist, historian and researcher who helped shape my new book, Double Discrimination, explains. Double Discrimination: a book on defiance, opportunity, possibility. #LearningDisabilityWeek

📚GIVEAWAY! Need an antidote to the hate? 🔽 www.specialneedsjungle.com/book-giveawa...

Skint Somerset has been slapped with a one-star rating for its financial management. 🧵1/3

Starting to line up book events, a few here, more to come!

NEW GIVEAWAY! Journalist and author @sabasalman.com discusses her new book, "Double Discrimination" highlighting the human face at the intersection of race, culture, and SEND. we have two copies to giveaway—use the form in the article: www.specialneedsjungle.com/double-discr...