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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 11d

#journorequest: looking for people who work in media/entertainment/culture (broadly defined) to talk about the trend for minority characters to be killed off in stories

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 11d

a topsy turvey world where calling Reform racist is apparently an incitement to violence but Reform *being racist* is not

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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 12d

This is a really key chart. Look at the difference between concern about immigration between Lab to Reform switchers and Lab to LD/Green/don't know switchers.

The latter group is five times larger.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

gonna be posting this over and over again, aren't I?

Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Aug 20

Wouldn't it be good if the Labour government, idk, made the positive case for immigration, welfare etc rather than just capitulating the narrative to the far right? Hmm?

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 12d

'Disability culture' may seem oxymoronic to some, but to me it means good books, radical community care, and a whole lotta punk

Me for @thepersistent.bsky.social
www.thepersistent.com/disability-c...

The Joy of Disability Culture's Punk Side

Honestly, everyone should be exposed to it.

www.thepersistent.com

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 25d

Can't believe I'm saying this but I sort of feel sorry for the king

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 26d

would he like to say this publicly?

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 26d

NEW - A punchy Keir Starmer at cabinet condemns the violence at Saturday's march "led by a convicted criminal" saying they had "sent a chill through the spines of people around the country, and particularly many ethnic minority Britons."

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 27d

Well that's lovely

Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · 27d

In response to a question about gay marriage, Farage says kids needs a mum and a dad, and straight relationships last longer

Vile, obviously, but also fascinating for a so-called man of the people to be so far from public opinion on this

Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 12

The House of Lords has the opportunity to do what MPs failed to - and change the assisted dying bill to protect disabled people

Me for the @guardian
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill | Lucy Webster

MPs passed it without sufficient safeguarding. If there is any point to the upper chamber, it is to give the legislation the open debate we need, says political journalist and author Lucy Webster

www.theguardian.com

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Anna Landre @annalandre.com · Sep 12

Here's to hoping the House of Lords gives the Assisted Dying Bill the scrutiny, safeguarding, & open debate it failed to get in the Commons. Lives -- of disabled and ill people, already under attack in this country -- are quite literally at stake.

Lucy Webster for @theguardian.com ⬇️

Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 12

Today the House of Lords begins its scrutiny of the assisted dying bill

They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs

Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill | Lucy Webster

MPs passed it without sufficient safeguarding. If there is any point to the upper chamber, it is to give the legislation the open debate we need, says political journalist and author Lucy Webster

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 12

Today the House of Lords begins its scrutiny of the assisted dying bill

They've got the opportunity to prove their worth by doing a better and more honest job than MPs

Me for @theguardian.com
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

It’s not too late: the House of Lords can still protect disabled people from this dangerous assisted dying bill | Lucy Webster

MPs passed it without sufficient safeguarding. If there is any point to the upper chamber, it is to give the legislation the open debate we need, says political journalist and author Lucy Webster

www.theguardian.com

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 9

A crucial Lords committee thinks the assisted dying bill gives an unconstitutional level of power to ministers

The Lords now has the power to do what the Commons failed to - properly scrutinise and amend this dangerous bill
www.standard.co.uk/news/politic...

Lords committee suggest parts of assisted dying Bill ‘sidestep parliament’

The Terminally Ill Adults (End of Life) Bill will come before the House of Lords for its first debate among peers on Friday.

www.standard.co.uk

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 5

If they do call the new DWP 'the dept for growth' someone may have to acknowledge that cutting benefits is counterproductive. But I won't hold my breath

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 5

A shame that Lammy won't be shepherding the recognition of a Palestinian state and a shame Mahmood won't be sorting out prisons but have to hand it to Keir, they're good appointments

Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 5

Go on, move Kendall

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 5

Rayner had to go but I think we'll miss her voice in cabinet. One of the few political minds, with a strong vision. Whether you agree with that vision or not, no one else in cabinet has one

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 3

not sure "we're not the ones referring ourselves to ethics advisors" is the zinger Kemi thinks it is

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 3

Don't come for me but I do have some sympathy for Angela Rayner. The trusts like the one she's set up for her disabled son are notoriously complex. I get it

I would potentially have more sympathy if she hadn't been pushing disability benefits cuts

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

current book proposal stage: this is either the best or worst idea I have ever had

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Sep 1

Banning refugees – people whose asylum claims have been processed by a hostile system and found to be legitimate – from bringing family members has one predictable and awful effect: instead of travelling alone, men will bring their wives and children on small boats, and some will drown.

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 2

it feels so much worse now because under the Tories there was some hope Labour would improve things, but now what?

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 1

I don't disagree with the first two sentences, but I think in general there's been far too much movement from 'not really noticing the problem' to 'despair'. Let's experiment with 'people and organisations try and enforce the norm' and then see if it is actually hard for it to be re-bottled.

James O'Malley @jamesomalley.co.uk · Sep 1

I worry that the decades it took to build anti-racism norms are unravelling quite quickly. Clearly the protests/social media drumbeat has created a permission structure that makes people think they can behave like this. Hard to see how it can be easily re-bottled.

Adam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · Sep 1

Sickening footage from Nuneaton tonight, where a Sky News interview with a local businessman was disrupted by racists hurling abuse.

Another local said, "Warwickshire Council Council has gone to Reform... It's given certain people a licence to be aggressive and racist."

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

Also basically argued there is no difference between a refugee and an economic migrant which is a take that belongs in Reform

You are in the wrong party ma'am

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Lucy Webster @lucywebster.bsky.social · Sep 1

Absolutely extraordinary to watch a Labour MP on Newsnight argue that family reunion for asylum seekers is bad

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