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Tim Purches
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Overwhelmingly a consumer of content rather than a contributor, but the occasional post related to things progressive, environmental, botanical or bryological, or anything that appeals to my sense of humour.
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Despite more than 150,000 deaths, widespread war crimes and millions facing hunger and disease, the war in #Sudan, which United Nations has called the world's largest humanitarian crisis, seems to be almost completely ignored in the west.
Sudan war: A simple guide to what is happening
Sudan was thrown into disarray in 2023 when its army and a paramilitary group began a power struggle.
www.bbc.co.uk
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Wow - those are quite phenomenal headlines given the details of the story.

Ahh look, he’s just a ‘nerdy’ guy. No harm done.

You need to scroll down to paragraph 13 of the Sky piece to find the full story!

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It’s certainly a beautiful dress, but I’m more intrigued by how long the model’s legs must be
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The Conservative immigration proposals cannot be allowed to stand without a profound and widespread statement of moral condemnation inews.co.uk/opinion/tori...
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I really think people are underestimating the degree to which 21st century politics are going to be apocalyptically bad; we are collectively sliding towards mass ethnic cleansing being the norm in the Western World, out of no reason but pure fucking spite and empty nostalgia.
Tory policy is to revoke permanent residence (ILR) for everybody who does not earn £38k - deporting most nurses who have ILR

This is put in the video as "who is unlikely to contribute more than they cost"

NB: video does not say EU settled status is exempt

No govt since Idi Amin has done this
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There is no need for a moral panic about the UK's welfare system.

Far from perfect but recent discourse is nuts

Spending is controlled, not spiralling

Worklessness is near record lows

My column www.ft.com/content/ee67...
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Read my two letters to the #UK:
1. Protests: I call for a review of the legal framework and the reconsideration of provisions in the Crime & Policing Bill that could restrict freedom of assembly.
2. Trans people: I warn against exclusion&zero-sum approaches
👇#HumanRights
www.coe.int/en/web/commi...
United Kingdom: Commissioner addresses human rights issues in policing of protests and the situation of trans people - Commissioner for Human Rights - www.coe.int
Strasbourg 14/10/2025
www.coe.int
An excellent thread (as you would expect from George Monbiot)
ME/CFS is a devastating condition that has long been denied, dismissed, psychologised and underdiagnosed. Research is at last starting to catch up with it, with glimmers of hope for those who have been left untreated for so long.
There's a huge BUT coming ...🧵
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Scientists develop first ‘accurate blood test’ to detect chronic fatigue syndrome
Research could offer hope for ME patients – but some experts urge caution and say more studies needed
www.theguardian.com
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We’re going to do what the US is doing and destroy our country because we can’t seem to stop the hateful racists who would rather live in a shithole than share their lives with brown people.
The NHS and social care would cease to function under UK govt’s new rules on foreign staff.

Workers will have to wait – from 5 to 10 years – before they can apply for indefinite leave to remain, claim any benefit, childcare, or housing support, despite paying taxes

Govt appeasing Reform.
NHS could cease to function under Labour’s new visa rules, say nurses
Exclusive: Royal College of Nursing says plan to tighten rules for foreign workers is ‘pandering’ to Reform UK
www.theguardian.com
A very insightful article on the ‘reactionary centrist’, and how they have captured the Labour Party and enabled the shift to the right in this country
What is a reactionary centrist, and does the UK have them?
A term favoured by US progressives can help us understand Britain’s drift to the right
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
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These false beliefs do not arise in a vacuum. Yet we seem collectively incurious about their origins.
Nearly half of British adults believe a majority of immigrants to this country in the last year came here illegally.
Just under a third (32%) believe the majority came here legally and a further one in five (20%) don't know.
A wonderful, entertaining evening yesterday listening to Robin Ince robinince.bsky.social talk to Plymouth Humanists
A lighthearted but also insightful thread
Imagine you're in a weird romcom where Paul Hollywood is your rival. Do you go "let's have a bread baking competition" or do you emphasise your own relative strengths?

Because that in short has been the central problem with the traditional two's approach to anti-immigration voters and Reform UK.
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Yet, on a personal level, most people don’t feel negatively impacted by immigration

So how come they feel that it is such a massive issue at Government/ National level (at least right now)?

(Staring hard at the media and Farage and Labour’s stupidity at feeding their toxic messaging)