Peth/Jonathan
@jpeth.bsky.social
Writing. Wrinkling. Wondering. Singing.
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Are tax rises the result of 'out-of-control' welfare spending?
We've dug into the numbers to examine whether the scale of welfare spending has shifted, and how feasible it would be to cut it back significantly 👇
We've dug into the numbers to examine whether the scale of welfare spending has shifted, and how feasible it would be to cut it back significantly 👇
November 26, 2025 at 3:07 PM
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This comes out today, & the writing of it has been almost as fascinating as co-creating the shows it deals with - work that emerged from and added to community. Ta to the people @intellectbooks.bsky.social and London Bubble who saw me through - plus all the creators who made and performed the work.
November 24, 2025 at 11:46 AM
This comes out today, & the writing of it has been almost as fascinating as co-creating the shows it deals with - work that emerged from and added to community. Ta to the people @intellectbooks.bsky.social and London Bubble who saw me through - plus all the creators who made and performed the work.
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Strange that senior figures at the BBC who edited out the 'peacefully and patriotically' bit of Trump's speech lose their jobs, while the 1,500+ rioters on January 6th who also clearly omitted that bit of Trump's speech get pardoned.
November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
Strange that senior figures at the BBC who edited out the 'peacefully and patriotically' bit of Trump's speech lose their jobs, while the 1,500+ rioters on January 6th who also clearly omitted that bit of Trump's speech get pardoned.
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October 29, 2025 at 12:18 PM
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Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC
The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.
www.lbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 6:57 AM
Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?
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Tesco said it now expected full-year 2025/26 adjusted operating profit of between 2.9 billion pounds and 3.1 billion pounds, up from previous guidance of between 2.7 billion pounds and 3 billion pounds and versus 3.13 billion pounds made in 2024/25
The bosses of Britain's biggest supermarkets have warned food prices could rise even further if higher taxes are imposed on the sector
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Tax rises could push food prices higher, warn supermarkets
The bosses of the UK's largest supermarkets warn the chancellor against imposing higher taxes on the industry.
www.bbc.co.uk
October 26, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Tesco said it now expected full-year 2025/26 adjusted operating profit of between 2.9 billion pounds and 3.1 billion pounds, up from previous guidance of between 2.7 billion pounds and 3 billion pounds and versus 3.13 billion pounds made in 2024/25
Look up Vivian Gussin Paley’s work. As a teacher in Chicago, she invited children of under 5 to dictate stories to her, then made a space for them to play them out while she read them to the whole class. It encouraged them to tell their stories and feel their power. She wrote many brilliant books.
I think letting children make books together gets them thinking in a lot of ways that inevitably lead to increased media literacy. Telling stories helps you to recognise stories elsewhere. Who is telling them? How are they being told? And why are they being told this way?
October 11, 2025 at 8:45 AM
Look up Vivian Gussin Paley’s work. As a teacher in Chicago, she invited children of under 5 to dictate stories to her, then made a space for them to play them out while she read them to the whole class. It encouraged them to tell their stories and feel their power. She wrote many brilliant books.
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The BBC's contribution to a civic climate of rage, despair and hatred is sizeable. It's constant amplification of extremist right-wing positions is utterly reprehensible.
I'm Jewish. I'm also Mancunian.
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
Every other national party leader was interviewed by Laura Kunesberg during their conference.
Maybe the BBC thought as someone who also supports Palestine - I had nothing to say?
Let's keep growing: join.greenparty.org.uk
October 6, 2025 at 1:40 PM
The BBC's contribution to a civic climate of rage, despair and hatred is sizeable. It's constant amplification of extremist right-wing positions is utterly reprehensible.
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Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH
October 4, 2025 at 7:03 PM
Billy Bragg has started a ‘reclaim the lampposts’ campaign and is happy to supply these stickers for you to attach to lampposts with flags on. If you want to call the Xenophobes out then send a stamped, self-addressed envelope to Billy Bragg at Bragg Office PO Box 6830, Bridport DT6 9BH
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In the big scheme this is not important, but in the little and local world it might be. In Catford three pubs & a cinema have closed in a year. Now one of the last snooker clubs in our area is also going. Used by all ages and backgrounds. Lots of fathers & sons. Another rip in the social fabric.
August 26, 2025 at 6:37 AM
In the big scheme this is not important, but in the little and local world it might be. In Catford three pubs & a cinema have closed in a year. Now one of the last snooker clubs in our area is also going. Used by all ages and backgrounds. Lots of fathers & sons. Another rip in the social fabric.
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Yep.
Somebody on LinkedIn said what we're all thinking.
August 10, 2025 at 8:04 PM
Yep.
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WOW. This new Ari Kuschnir short about Donald Trump's White House ballroom is AMAZING.
August 9, 2025 at 1:32 PM
WOW. This new Ari Kuschnir short about Donald Trump's White House ballroom is AMAZING.
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This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
‘Worrying’ levels of screen time means young people losing confidence to socialise in person, minister warns – UK politics live
Culture secretary Lisa Nandy says ‘majority of young people spend all, or almost all, of their free time alone in their bedrooms, online’
www.theguardian.com
August 6, 2025 at 8:46 AM
This is not caused primarily by "screen time".
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
It's been caused by the mass eradication of third places for young people in basically every city over the past three decades - and a society that's hostile to the concept of teens socialising in public spaces.
www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Ladywell Playtower, an iconic, historic building that enriched the Lewisham community for generations, is falling into ruin. Will you join me and urge the Mayor of Lewisham and local councillors to save it? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
Save Ladywell Playtower
Ladywell Playtower, an iconic, historic building that enriched the Lewisham community for generations, is falling into ruin. Will you join me and urge the Mayor of Lewisham and local councillors to sa...
you.38degrees.org.uk
July 17, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Ladywell Playtower, an iconic, historic building that enriched the Lewisham community for generations, is falling into ruin. Will you join me and urge the Mayor of Lewisham and local councillors to save it? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/sa...
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This is beautiful 🥺
Statement by Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark who were assassinated at the weekend.
Statement by Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark who were assassinated at the weekend.
June 17, 2025 at 7:00 AM
This is beautiful 🥺
Statement by Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark who were assassinated at the weekend.
Statement by Sophie and Colin Hortman, children of Rep. Melissa Hortman and her husband Mark who were assassinated at the weekend.
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Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"
June 11, 2025 at 1:59 PM
Isaac Asimov on, "If God is Dead, Everything is Permitted?"
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Excellent sleep - as described, arrived as expected and well packaged. 5 stars,would sleep again.
May 30, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Excellent sleep - as described, arrived as expected and well packaged. 5 stars,would sleep again.
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Man in Victoria: Everyone's so negative. Know what I mean?
Woman: No.
Woman: No.
May 29, 2025 at 7:49 AM
Man in Victoria: Everyone's so negative. Know what I mean?
Woman: No.
Woman: No.
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I’m glad I happened to spend one minute of my Monday morning hearing this helpful and uplifting truth…
March 24, 2025 at 8:27 AM
I’m glad I happened to spend one minute of my Monday morning hearing this helpful and uplifting truth…
The juxtaposition in the @lrb.co.uk of the articles on the Cold War (from the Russian perspective), and Paul Taylor’s writing on DeepSeek is surely deliberate.
It places major political tensions of the past alongside the major technological tensions of the future. Titanic/tectonic struggles both.
It places major political tensions of the past alongside the major technological tensions of the future. Titanic/tectonic struggles both.
March 18, 2025 at 8:25 AM
The juxtaposition in the @lrb.co.uk of the articles on the Cold War (from the Russian perspective), and Paul Taylor’s writing on DeepSeek is surely deliberate.
It places major political tensions of the past alongside the major technological tensions of the future. Titanic/tectonic struggles both.
It places major political tensions of the past alongside the major technological tensions of the future. Titanic/tectonic struggles both.
Beautiful thread
I know it is not absolutely a crisis but it is very bad let me tell you what has happened
March 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
Beautiful thread