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Christopher McCabe
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🇨🇦 🇮🇪 🇬🇧Professor of Health Economics. Queens University Belfast. Health Policy, Health Technology Assessment and Innovation. Opinions my own - nobody else would want them.
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Christopher McCabe @cjmccabe.bsky.social · 6d
Because they should be. It means they have extracted the value from other people's labour because of market power.

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The Mill @manchestermill.bsky.social · 6d
🚨 We've just launched our first ever membership campaign - with six pledges chosen by our readers and a 50,000-copy print edition hitting the streets.

Please share with friends - and join up! New members can choose their price.

manchestermill.co.uk

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James Larkin @jameslarkin13.bsky.social · 6d
A key strategy of commercial actors is to influence and distort the evidence base relating to the harms of their products

This is done through funding misleading industry-friendly science & through the active promotion of misinformation

@markpetticrew.bsky.social
@aimosinc.bsky.social
#AIMOS2025

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Scottish Greens @scottishgreens.org · 7d
Young people don’t get a discount on their rent or food bills. So why are they paid less?

700,000 18-20 year olds could be missing out on an average of £2,400 a year on average because they're not covered by the main minimum wage.
A fair living wage should be given to all regardless of age - Lorna Slater
The cost of food, energy, housing and living is soaring, and the financial insecurity is far from over for those relying on foodbanks or being forced to go hungry.
www.edinburghnews.scotsman.com

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 7d
Yet ANOTHER evidence-free & disastrous policy move by Alberta.

NO evidence will help system. On the contrary: > costs < equity > inefficiencies < quality

Are they TRYING to ruin AB?

Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public & private services www.theglobeandmail.com/canada/alber...
Alberta plans to allow doctors to deliver public and private services
Draft legislation would establish a model for medicine unlike any other in Canada
www.theglobeandmail.com

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 8d
I mean, I don't see how you can claim any savings at all from cutting off benefit access to people *who are entitled to become citizens whenever they want and carry on claiming*

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Mark McGeoghegan @markmcgeoghegan.bsky.social · 8d
The Danish Social Democrats are currently on course for their worst election result since at least the Second World War, despite their brand of far-right accommodationism being touted as a blueprint for other centre-left parties.

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d
Oh

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d
How to lose friends and alienate people.
jessicaelgot.bsky.social Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 8d
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.

Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.

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Sander Tordoir @sandertordoir.bsky.social · 8d
From the great new NBER paper by Bloom et al on the cost of Brexit.

It ain't pretty - they estimate UK GDP is down between 6-8%. Consistent with the doppelgang model of @johnspringford.bsky.social for CER.

A lot of 'free' GDP available availabe for Labour if it had the courage to reset properly.

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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 8d
In @nytopinion.nytimes.com

“The real existential threat of generative A.I. is not rogue super-intelligence, but a quiet atrophy of our ability to forge genuine human connection,” writes Lauren Kunze, the chief executive of Pandorabots.
Opinion | A.I. Sexbots Are Dangerous. We Should Know.
At least a quarter of the more than 100 billion messages sent to our chatbots are attempts to initiate romantic or sexual exchanges.
nyti.ms

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Hyab Yohannes @hyabyohannes.bsky.social · 8d
The spectacle of cruelty towards those seeking refuge is fully on display: no camouflage, no shame, no decency - only indifference and indignation👇🏾

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Shabhana Mahmood announces overhaul of 'unfair' asylum system
Under the plans, refugee status will become temporary and new capped
www.bbc.co.uk

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Tzeporah Berman @tzeporah.bsky.social · 8d
At the #COP30 Leaders Summit plenary, President Lula called for “a road map for humanity to overcome, in a just and planned way, its dependence on fossil fuels.”

President Lula is right but pledges, speeches, statements and declarations are not a road map.

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Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 8d
Lots of Labour MPs asking Mahmood tonight to rule out child detention. She won’t rule it out. That’s because forced removals of families will mean children in detention for periods.

Home Office ruling out deportation of lone minors but the changes will certainly mean more detention of children.

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Charlie Angus @charlieangus104.bsky.social · 8d
The PM is talking about nation-building. We need to be talking about being a nation where people aren't dependent on food banks and are able to live in affordable homes.
A nation where people are not left behind.
This is my latest.
substack.com/home/post/p-...
True Nation-Building in a Time of Rising Economic Insecurity
Wherever I travel across Canada, I am overwhelmed by the positive energy and determination of Canadians to defend our sovereignty and national values.
substack.com

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Alison Phipps አሊሰን @alisonphipps.bsky.social · 8d
They do know that many cultures don’t have rings as marriage symbols but other artefacts that in this “bags of gold rings” ignorance they will obviously be seizing.

Also whether you “seize” at a border or during a raid of a damp barracks it’s the seizing that’s wrong. Utterly wrong.
adambienkov.bsky.social Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 8d
Labour MP Sarah Owen asks Shabana Mahmood for "any evidence taking personal belongings, such as jewellery from refugees and selling it off actually works as a deterrent?"

Mahmood "We will not seize people's jewelry at the border"

"We're not going after their sentimental items like wedding rings"

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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 8d
One of the most shameful incidents of WW2 was when the government and press scapegoated refugees, then decided to pack them off an a cramped ship, The HMT DUNERA and ship them to Australia.

As they boarded the boat they were stripped of the valuables and robbed by the guards.

Now government policy

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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 9d
Reform UK have launched a fresh attack on neurodivergent young people, saying the sight of children wearing ear defenders in school is 'insane'
Reform UK launch new attack on neurodivergent children
www.thenational.scot

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Sooz Kempner @soozuk.bsky.social · 9d
Shabana Mahmood casually saying they're gonna take migrant's jewellery off them has got me thinking about that scene in Schindler's List where the Jewish family wrap family heirlooms in bread and swallow them.

What the fuck are we?

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Sam Cole @samleecole.bsky.social · 9d
license plate data merged with credit header data, marriage records, vehicle ownership, and voter registrations, in one app for ICE agents. oh and it sends push notifications when someone they're seeking is nearby.
🆒: www.404media.co/this-app-let...
This App Lets ICE Track Vehicles and Owners Across the Country
Material viewed by 404 Media shows data giant Thomson Reuters enriches license plate data with marriage, voter, and ownership records. The tool can predict where a car may be in the future.
www.404media.co

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Disappointed Optimist @disappoptimism.bsky.social · 9d
Italy has enacted its first AI regulation laws including detail around consent of data use & legislating against deep fakes - some real substance here & positive steps - full legal analysis here:

www.hoganlovells.com/en/publicati...
Italy’s AI Law: the good, the bad…and the actual substance
On 10 October 2025, Italy's AI Law (Law No. 132/2025) entered into force – the first comprehensive national AI framework in the EU. While its scope spans areas such as minors' protection, AI training ...
www.hoganlovells.com

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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 9d
“Helsinki hasn’t registered a single traffic-related fatality in the past year…Citing data that shows the risk of pedestrian fatality is cut in half by reducing a car’s speed from 40 to 30km/hr, city officials imposed the lower limit in most of Helsinki’s residential areas & city center in 2021.”
Helsinki just went a full year without a single traffic death
The capital city is Finnish’ed with car-related fatalities.
www.politico.eu

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Timothy Caulfield @caulfieldtim.bsky.social · 13d
Important to remember the power of foreign state actors in shaping vaccine hesitancy...

Social media and vaccine hesitancy gh.bmj.com/content/5/10...

"...a substantial relationship between foreign disinformation campaigns and declining vaccination coverage."
Social media and vaccine hesitancy
Background Understanding the threat posed by anti-vaccination efforts on social media is critically important with the forth coming need for world wide COVID-19 vaccination programs. We globally evalu...
gh.bmj.com

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Human Rights Campaign @hrc.org · 13d
Today marks the start of Transgender Awareness Week, where we come together to celebrate, uplift, and honor our trans and non-binary community.

There is no LGBTQ+ without the “T” — PERIOD. Learn more and join us in the fight for equality: hrc.im/transawarenessweek

#Trans #TransAwarenessWeek
On a gradient background with the trans flag colors, blue and white text reads, “Trans people are your friends, family and neighbors.” Headshots of diverse trans celebrities, activists, and politicians appear.

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John Kostyack @kostyack.bsky.social · 13d
"The center-right, right-wing and far-right groups allied to pass the EU's first omnibus simplification package." Note the euphemism - "simplification" includes abandonment of mandatory climate transition plans. www.business-humanrights.org/en/latest-ne...

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Paris Marx @parismarx.com · 13d
The International Criminal Court is ditching Microsoft Office, saying it’s too dependent on US tech, in favor of Open Desk, a German open source alternative.

The move comes after Microsoft revoked ICC head Karim Khan’s email access when he was sanctioned by the US for the warrant against Netanyahu.
International Criminal Court to ditch Microsoft Office for European open source alternative | Euractiv
The court will move its internal work environment to Open Desk, a German-developed open source software
www.euractiv.com

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Alexander Clarkson @aphclarkson.bsky.social · 13d
If the US system remains trapped in an endless knife fight between a party of good government and a party of nihilistic governance then Europeans need to accept that the US will no longer be a stable partner long after Trump is gone
gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social James @gravitysra1nbow.bsky.social · 13d
I'd just like to point out that we spent an entire shipment of air defense interceptors' worth of money on new signs for a name change that isn't even legally the name of the DoD.

Ukraine is currently experiencing rolling blackouts from Russian strikes, btw.
thedailybeast.bsky.social The Daily Beast @thedailybeast.bsky.social · 13d
Letterheads and signage alone would quickly run the bill upward of $1 billion, with a full overhaul likely rising to double that amount.

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Metal Gear Solidarity @mgearsolidarity.bsky.social · 13d
COMMENTARIAT: Streeting is statemanlike, a man of the people. He has really impressed me today.

STREETING: If anything, nurses get paid too much! They're like a Mexican cartel!

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Tristan Grayford @tristangrayford.scot · 15d
All of this nonsense at the BBC probably wouldn't be happening if the board wasn't stuffed with Tory appointees for over a decade who, despite their best efforts, couldn't hold back the tide of cultural change.

This week is all just Robbie Gibb's tantrum about that.

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NJ @nojusticemtg.bsky.social · 15d
Emily Maitlis admitting she worked at the bbc to try and get healthcare for trans people shut down