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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 4d

I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about this idea of “giving more than you take.”

I have been in the incredibly privileged position most of my adult life that I’ve been able to fall on the “giving” side of that ledger. Not because I think that makes me virtuous or morally superior in any way, but because it feels like a simple civic contract.

The “surplus” that I am able to generate - in time, work, taxes, empathy - feeds into something larger that others who are not so lucky can draw from when they need to.

Which, correct me if I’m wrong, is the whole point of society, isn’t it?

Those who can, give a little more - those who can’t take a little more, and both are equally valid parts of the same social organism.

I think that the problem is that this balance has become a moral test. “Do you give more than you take?” has become a central question thrown around not only of economic worth, but now also of belonging. The moment we start using this argument as a basis for immigration policy - or for determining who deserves safety, healthcare or dignity - we stop being a society, and become something far more transactional.

The UK didn’t build the NHS, public education or the social contract on an assumption that every citizen would be in perpetual profit - it built them on trust and the idea that we each give as much as we can, when we can, because one day we might be in the position of needing to “take.”

I have been lucky enough to be on the giving side, but luck is not a character, and it’s definitely not permanence. The only thing that separates the “giver” and the “taker” is circumstance - and circumstance can change with one diagnosis, a redundancy or death.

Our politics would do well to remember that.

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 4d

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Cold War Steve @coldwarsteve.bsky.social · 11d

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North East Bylines @northeastbylines.co.uk · 11d

£250 million scheme could create thousands of jobs
| Bill Edgar

Durham: proposal to expand major site

£250 million scheme could create thousands of jobs

northeastbylines.co.uk

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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 11d

These national heroes have now waited more than a year for a meeting with Keir Starmer to discuss the justice & compensation Labour committed to in opposition. They are now in their eighties and are dying waiting for justice. This is no way to treat veterans Prime Minister

youtu.be/hSQNLn2Ocr8?...

Video emerges of Deputy PM,Defence Secretary & other Ministers BACKING compensation for Nuclear Vets

YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic

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Andrea Reyes E (she/her) @altibel.bsky.social · 15d

There's a 1936 novel about them: Chase of the Wild Goose by Mary Gordon. There was a recent edition by @lurideditions.bsky.social
www.lurideditions.com/shop/p/chase...

Chase of the Wild Goose — Lurid Editions

Chase of the Wild Goose is the forgotten queer novel of the 1930s – a joyful corrective to the misery of The Well of Loneliness, and amiable companion to Woolf’s time-travelling Orlando.

www.lurideditions.com

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · 16d

Every benefit cut is a cut to a high street, a care worker, a council service.

You can’t “balance the books” by burning the foundations.

That’s how you hollow out a nation.

Prof Richard Murphy reports

What happens when £47 billion disappears from Britain’s economy?

Tory Shadow Chancellor Mel Stride wants to take £47 billion out of the UK economy. That isn't prudence. It's managed decline

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Traveling The Road Images (E.C.Teodoro Photography) @travelingtheroad.bsky.social · 16d

Hackberry General Store
Route 66 Arizona

The signs aged, but the spirit stayed.
Shadows stretched across familiar ground.
Even the silence had a story.
This place never let go of its names.

#photography #route66 #Hackberry #route66arizona

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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 19d

Tory Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes.

A code for more austerity, public service cuts. What do they think will happen when £47bn is removed from the economy?

Silence on taxing the rich, windfall taxes, ending corporate welfare, tax havens.

Same old Tories.

Badenoch to set out new rule to cut borrowing and taxes

In a conference speech, the Tory leader will say the Conservatives are the only party

www.bbc.co.uk

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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · Sep 20

The year of Our Lord, 2025, & a former British PM is championing the views of a Neo-Nazi, as he attacks students for not genuflecting to fascism. I think, if we were to believe in horror movies, the flatulent & incandescent corpse of Churchill must be searching for Johnson now…

Lee Hurley @hleehurley.com · Sep 20

This isn't even close to being the most unhinged thing in the Daily Mail today

THE WETTEST GENERATION SINCE THE FLOOD
Today’s youth are too scared to drive, barely drink and many don’t even have sex. And they’re so super sensitive that, shockingly, some would rather a man got shot than say something they found offensive...
Daily Mail 20 Sep 2025 BORIS Johnson @Borisjohnson

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Jonathan Pie @jonathanpienews.bsky.social · Sep 18

Opposing views should be openly challenged with logic and reason, not silenced with the threat of bullets - that way lies a very grim future.

Full version here: youtu.be/qsm-x1i7UIk?...

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Sep 4

I see all the media organisations endlessly parroting the "free speech under threat" rhetoric of the right are now staying completely silent as Reform and the Conservatives openly ban news outlets that criticise them from covering their events
bylinetimes.com/2025/09/04/k...

Kemi Badenoch's 'Free Speech' Conservatives Ban Byline Times From Party Conference

The ban on covering the party's annual gathering came despite Badenoch's repeated commitment to "fight" for free speech and a free press

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East Anglia Bylines @eastangliabylines.co.uk · Aug 5

The richest 10% own 60% of UK wealth – and it's still growing.

Not because they work harder, but because our tax system helps them.

Why are the wealthy so well off?

The accumulation of wealth has been driving inequality for decades. In the first of two articles we explain the injustice of our wealth taxation

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Trees
#Wood
#Park
#Photography
#Blackandwhite

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · Aug 5

A new low: Turnberry spells the end time for the EU’s common commercial policy

The EU’s trade deal with the US makes Brexit look tame – it has caved to US tariffs, gained little, and shattered its own trade unity in the process

By John A Clarke

@yorkshirebylines.co.uk

A new low: Turnberry spells the end time for the EU’s common commercial policy

The EU’s trade deal with the US makes Brexit look tame – it has caved to US tariffs, gained little, and shattered its own trade unity in the process

yorkshirebylines.co.uk

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Bylines Cymru @bylines.cymru · Aug 5

Could AI revolutionise Welsh healthcare?

AI offers Wales a chance to rewrite NHS history – this time not with gadgets, but with real transformation in care, culture, and outcomes

✍️ Dr Martin Crilly

Could AI revolutionise Welsh healthcare?

AI offers Wales a chance to rewrite NHS history – this time not with gadgets, but with real transformation in care, culture, and outcomes

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HappyToast @happytoast.co.uk · Aug 5

Sure, it was definitely due to one guy chanting something for a few seconds on an iPlayer live stream that was then pulled and not due to, I don't know, massive media hysteria about it or maybe, just maybe the massive ongoing genocide and murdering of people trying to find food.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Aug 5

Antisemitic incidents spiked in UK after Bob Vylan’s Glastonbury anti-IDF chants

Campaigners warn ‘rhetoric towards Israel’ is driving anti-Jewish discourse after worst day for ‘anti-Jewish hate’ in first half of 2025 Reports of antisemitic incidents in the UK spiked the day after punk duo Bob Vylan’s anti-IDF remarks at Glastonbury, campaigners have said. There were 26 incidents reported on 29 June – the highest daily total of incidents in the first half of 2025 – the monitoring and Jewish community safety organisation, the Community Security Trust (CST), said. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Batersea
#Blackandwhite
#Photography
#Towers

Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

The iconic Battersea power station. Never quite seems the same without the flying pig 🐖

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

#Flowers
#Blooms
#Colour

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

Lovely photo. There seems to have been quite a few butterflies this year, which is amazing to see. Have never managed to photograph any, not so far.

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

The iconic Battersea power station. Never quite seems the same without the flying pig 🐖

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Duchess Gemma 🐠🕷️🇪🇺 @gemmagould.bsky.social · Aug 5

In light of the call (from certain figures) for ethnicity and status to be given when arrests are reported here goes:

🚨White Male with questionable citizenship arrested for suspected GBH 🚨

Tommy Robinson arrested over alleged assault at London train station

British Transport Police say a 42-year-old man has been held on his arrival at Luton airport

www.independent.co.uk

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

I’d like to know why little Tommy 2names has been bailed I’d personally like his smug mug stuck behind bars for as long as possible. So patriotic he holds an Irish passport, which I guess makes him little tommy 2faced as well.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · Aug 4

I need real-time information on the ethnicity and migration status of guys charged with raping children so I know whether to start a riot or sit back and not give a fuck.

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Cazz @cazzk.bsky.social · Aug 5

Sounds perfect to me. Hope you enjoy 🥰

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