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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 10h

Nwaneri!!!!

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 11h

The going back to school wave?

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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 16h

We are now in a significant COVID wave after a period of relative calm- excellent summary from @chrischirp.bsky.social

England is now experiencing a significant Covid wave, after 10 months of relative quiet

The latest Covid situation in England and a look at where NHS services are as we head into winter

open.substack.com

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Helene von Bismarck @helenebismarck.bsky.social · 15h

I think this is hugely important. I have done a lot of research on religion and politics for my book (about 🇬🇧) and I cannot overstate the difference between the pundits and politicians who talk aggressively
about "cultural Christianity“ and the people you meet when you actually go to church.

Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 15h

"People who attend church or identify with a Christian tradition are not systematically more (or less) nativist, authoritarian or populist than their secular counterparts. Conversely, people who hold nativist and authoritarian views are often also Islamophobes, and vice versa." 👏 @kai-arzheimer.com

Islamophobia in Western Europe is not driven by religiosity

Are Christians more likely to be Islamophobic than other citizens in Europe? New research finds European Islamophobia has no link to a person’s religiosity.

blogs.lse.ac.uk

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BrexitPirates @brexitpirates.bsky.social · 16h

A haunting image.
Thousands on their way to rebuild homes and lives they were bombed out of, and all they have is what they carry and hope that the peace can last.
www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

Palestinians displaced to southern Gaza begin journey home as ceasefire comes into effect

Thousands walk north along coastal road after Israel-Hamas agreement puts stop to fighting for first time in six months

www.theguardian.com

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 15h

A placard in support of an organisation that, as far as it is possible to tell, have not carried out terrorist attacks, called for peaceful demos, illuminated support the British Gov gives to an organisation, that at the very least, is/has carrying out collective punishment, gets you jailed!

diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 17h

www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

Martin Rowson on the Gaza ceasefire – cartoon

Donald Trump says Israel and Hamas have agreed to the initial phase of a ceasefire plan in Gaza

www.theguardian.com

diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 17h

The Facts as far as we know them....

from Cif

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 17h

Might help, though that is about individual taxation policy.

I was primarily thinking of ways to make company policy more favourable for those that set up in a more cooperative style.

All political parties talk about community, make policy more about community and cooperation than the individual

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 20h

As a 'self' employed courier working pretty much only for City Sprint they actively encouraged drivers to claim it ... this was early 2010's.
Rates for deliveries had been static or were less than when I had been working as a courier in the late 80's early 90's

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 20h

The biggest problems in the West are about
how wealth of nation is shared
how political power is apportioned
Justice and fairness

They have all become attuned to the needs of the already wealthy
And yes it is all relative within that culture

Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 20h

Can't rebuild economy without increasing worker share of GDP.

Some suggestions:
Join a union
Strengthen collective bargaining
Need real Living Wage.
Worker-elected directors on company boards
Worker vote on exec pay
Exec bonus schemes must apply to workers
Limit corporate tax relief on exec pay

The government must ensure fair distribution of income

'The average real wage of workers has hardly moved from the 2008 level whilst bosses never had it so good.'

leftfootforward.org

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 20h

Effectively Government socialised wage increases to fund workforces, while management and shareholders get paid more of the profit

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 20h

Government help for Cooperative companies
Better tax rates for companies set up with flatter wage structures.

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 2d

This is a very good post by @nycjayjay.bsky.social - especially on the direct questions Bondi did not answer.

open.substack.com/pub/statusku...

Pam Bondi Is a Piece of Work

And it’s clearer than ever that she sees her job as covering for and protecting criminals within the Trump regime.

open.substack.com

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dag @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 1d

NEW

Law versus politics

Both the UK and the US face a choice between unchecked executive power or a balanced constitution

By me at @prospectmagazine.co.uk

www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/law/th...

This is the crucial choice facing those both in the United Kingdom and the United States. What is to be the relationship between those with political power and the force of law?

In the United States it would seem that, at a federal level, both Congress and the Supreme Court are content to nod along with excessive use of presidential power. It is only the individual states themselves and the lower courts that are seeking to hold that executive power to account.

While in the United Kingdom there are louder political demands for the government to be free from the constraints placed by international law and supposedly activist judges. The implicit call is that ministers and officials should be able to do as they like to the rest of us without any possibility of a court ever saying otherwise.

What will happen in this contest between executive power and legal restraint cannot be predicted. The happy assumption of the Whig interpretation of history may not be well-grounded. From a liberal perspective things are not only getting worse, but could get a lot worse. The illiberals know what they are doing and they are doing it well.

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 1d

Constitutional Checks and balances

I refuse to believe SKS is stupid, so what the f' is he and his team playing at, not only do they seem to be opening up the field for Reform/Cons, but they also appear to be laying the groundwork for a Government that gives no mind to legality, morality or facts

Stephen Kinsella @stephenstroud.bsky.social · 1d

As @davidallengreen.bsky.social has been pointing out for a while.

We have time to fix some of the more glaring problems, but not a huge amount of time, and that clock is ticking.

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

If you want to read an actually good piece about integration in the United Kingdom, try @samfr.bsky.social:

The Truth About Integration

I have been challenged by readers to write something less depressing about the state of the country.

samf.substack.com

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 2d

Planning for the Future then use the best available science & knowledge

Remember when you vote

Reform do not believe in science of AGW

CONservatives are preparing to back out of measures to combat AGW, implies denial of science

Labour say they believe, but then go ahead with Airport Expansion

National Emergency Briefing @nebriefing.bsky.social · 2d

UK intelligence chiefs warn that the climate & nature crisis poses a severe threat to UK national security.

Food shortages and economic turmoil around the corner.

That’s why national security is central to the National Emergency Briefing, 27 Nov.
👉 nebriefing.org
Forewarned is forearmed

National security threatened by climate crisis, UK intelligence chiefs due to warn

Report by joint intelligence committee delayed, with concerns expressed that it may not be published

www.theguardian.com

diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 2d

Hot Dog....not so sure now I think of it!

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Hal Duncan @halduncan.com · 2d

Thatcherite shit but done in the full knowledge of climate catastrophe

Mongabay @mongabay.com · 2d

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large amounts of carbon.

UK rejects total ban on bottom trawling in offshore marine protected areas

The U.K. government has rejected calls to fully ban bottom trawling in its offshore marine protected areas, despite evidence that the fishing practice tears up seabed habitats and releases large…

news.mongabay.com

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Declassified UK @declassifieduk.org · 2d

‼️NEW -- Two years of genocide

By Shaimaa Eid in Gaza

Gaza did not die despite a world that willed its erasure.

www.declassifieduk.org/two-years-of...

Two years of genocide

Gaza did not die despite a world that willed its erasure.

www.declassifieduk.org

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diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 2d

Freedoms bow before the needs of Corporations

www.theguardian.com/education/20...

UK universities offered to monitor students’ social media for arms firms, emails show

Loughborough, Heriot-Watt and Glasgow corresponded with companies concerned about campus protests

www.theguardian.com

diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 2d

Hope that the Conflict might well be ended.

An Israeli view that they won so it's theirs is never going to endear itself to most humans, who generally regard fairness & justice, as key to a peaceable life.

We shall see, but lets hope for the best.

www.theguardian.com/world/2025/o...

diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 2d

i commented on a Conrad Hackett post😁

diaminedave.bsky.social @diaminedave.bsky.social · 2d

Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 2d

No, it's not. It's all a lie. The blunt truth is across the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them.

Iain Mansfield @igmansfield.bsky.social · 2d

Outstanding piece by Stephen Daisley.

Ethnicity is no barrier to Britishness - it's culture and integration.

That means 'smaller cohorts and aggressive integration policies' - and tackling the institutions that 'have amplified grievance narratives and radical anti-Western ideologies'.