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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 4d

“You can blame the professionalisation of politics, which has given us a frontbench that, throughout their careers, have been insulated from public argument.” Yes, this is an important point about Labour’s present woes.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 4d

Ministers can raise taxes if they come out fighting. But no one in this cowardly Labour government seems able | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ahead of the budget, Rachel Reeves should be out making her arguments. Instead, there is silence – and a huge opportunity for Labour’s opponents, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 17d

Mmm…perhaps the legal profession needs all those graduate trainees to do the donkey-work afterall… www.theguardian.com/technology/2...

Barrister found to have used AI to prepare for hearing after citing ‘fictitious’ cases

Judge rules Chowdhury Rahman used ChatGPT-like software and then tried to hide it, wasting immigration tribunal’s time

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 19d

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Kemi Badenoch wants to end ‘rip-off degrees’ – but I wouldn’t have created Horrid Henry without mine | Francesca Simon

I studied Old and Middle English. Although I didn’t know it, I couldn’t have chosen a better subject to train me to become a children’s author, says author Francesca Simon

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 25d

Sometimes justice does prevail #violenceagainstwomenandgirls

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French appeal court increases sentence of Gisèle Pelicot rapist

Husamettin Dogan loses appeal after jury at retrial finds him guilty of raping Pelicot while she was sedated

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 27d

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Two years after 7 October and the kidnap of my parents, hate is in fashion. For all our sakes, we need compassion | Sharone Lifschitz

So many were killed – yet on her release, my mother said ‘shalom’ to her captors. Let’s learn from that moment of grace, says Sharone Lifschitz, London-based film-maker and academic

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 28d

Persuasive argument from @zoesqwilliams.bsky.social #toryconference

“When the mainstream right loses its confidence, when it starts to chase the buzzwords and symbolic politics of the far right, it hands them the steering wheel.”

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Enjoying the implosion of the Tories? That’s understandable – but completely wrong | Zoe Williams

The world’s most successful democratic party is in a death spiral of its own making – leaving no moderate bulwark between the moderate and truly far right, writes Zoe Williams

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 29d

Entertaining phone-in w Clare Foges on @lbc.co.uk on, ‘Can there be a renaissance of the Tory party?’ …

“What’s Michael Heseltine up to these days?” texts one Tory ruefully

#toryconference

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · 29d

Beautiful story: “These women are saying to us: ‘Before I was just doing hair, now I do healing.’”

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‘We all need someone’: the hairdressers tackling stigma of mental health issues in west Africa

In Cameroon, Ivory Coast and Togo, where therapy services are almost absent, some stylists are being trained to listen, comfort and guide

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Sep 9

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A racist mob menacing refugee children and our town. Read this and see what lies ahead, unless we act now | Anonymous

Last weekend, it fell to ordinary people to oppose the far right and others. The national toxicity has reached us: a kind of hate I haven’t seen since the 1970s

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Aug 29

Blimey, Steve Baker making an awful lot of sense on #Newsnight discussing the hotels issues and the politics of the flag.

Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Jul 16

Ailbhe Rea of Bloomberg is always worth listening to - clear, thoughtful and concise as ever on #politicslive today, discussing the #afghandatabreach #superinjunction
@pronouncedalva.bsky.social

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Jul 12

Surely, there was only ‘no expelling’ under Blair because Kinnock had already done it all and set the party on its centrist way? @tomclarke.bsky.social @prospectmagazine.co.uk

Prospect Magazine @prospectmagazine.co.uk · Jul 12

There was no systematic exclusion of rebels under Major or Blair. Expulsion-happy leaders and whips should think about the health of our democracy, writes @tom-clark.bsky.social.
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British politics needs free-thinking MPs

After the welfare bill fiasco, Labour and the Conservatives must relearn the value of a broad tent, and stop kicking out rebels

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Jul 11

Such an important study: www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

A third of UK women who died during or after pregnancy known to children’s services, study finds

Researchers call for better coordinated and holistic care for women who often come from abusive backgrounds

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Jun 19

Well said and well done @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social on taking a principled stand over #benefitcuts. True Labour.

Vicky Foxcroft MP @vickyfoxcroftmp.bsky.social · Jun 19

(1/2) With a heavy heart, I have written to the Prime Minister to tender my resignation as a whip.

Whilst I will continue to support the government in delivering the change the country so desperately needs, I cannot vote in favour of the proposed reforms to disability benefits.

Screenshot of Vicky's letter to the Prime Minister (page 1)

Screenshot of Vicky's letter to the Prime Minister (page 2)

Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Jun 10

If they could bottle the good feelings brought on by watching #BBCSpringwatch they could make a fortune. One of the best things on the telly by a mile. @bbcspringwatch.bsky.social

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Jun 7

This #BillyJoel gig on BBC2 is something else. I’d forgotten how talented he is. Used to know every single word to the songs on The Stranger

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 24

Brilliant panel on protecting and advancing the health and reproductive rights of women and girls 👏 💪🏽 a#hayfestival @hayfestival.bsky.social

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 23

I cannot keep up with the Apple/China expert on #Newsnight but I can tell he’s brilliantly knowledgeable 😀

Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 23

You did so well.

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 22

How on earth @ayeshahazarika.bsky.social stayed calm while being mansplained at by James Cleverley and Guto Harris about rape and the Tory record on convictions I will never know. Really awful on #politicslive

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 21

Can’t see how Rachel Reeves survives this, and I don’t expect Kemi Badenoch to last long either #newsnight #winterfuel

Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 12

Finding it very stressful watching Hart on #universitychallenge; he’s so tormented 😩 They’d better win…

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Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · May 12

Nadra Ahmed of National Care Association very good on #politicslive. Neither MP on the panel, Labour or Tory, have an answer. Richard Reeves quite right to highlight gender and care dynamic #socialcare #immigration

Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Apr 30

“”How has Trump made the world safer?”

“Well we have iconic images that show this” says desperate mewling Trump sycophant on #Newsnight

Jo Warner @jowarner01.bsky.social · Apr 25

The Radek Sikorski and Peter Frankopan combo on #Newsnignt tonight was riveting, particularly the clarity of the Polish perspective on Putin @radek-sikorski.bsky.social