Maeve Schaffer
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Is it time to stop framing “U-turns” as a bad thing?
If a government listens to the people and changes their mind on policy that had proven to be unpopular, surely that is democracy working how it should?
Maybe we need to rebrand the U turn.
www.thetimes.com/article/0044...
If a government listens to the people and changes their mind on policy that had proven to be unpopular, surely that is democracy working how it should?
Maybe we need to rebrand the U turn.
www.thetimes.com/article/0044...
Keir Starmer abandons plans for compulsory digital ID
Scheme intended to verify someone’s right to work in the UK will be optional, government admitted in 13th U-turn since taking power
www.thetimes.com
January 13, 2026 at 6:41 PM
Is it time to stop framing “U-turns” as a bad thing?
If a government listens to the people and changes their mind on policy that had proven to be unpopular, surely that is democracy working how it should?
Maybe we need to rebrand the U turn.
www.thetimes.com/article/0044...
If a government listens to the people and changes their mind on policy that had proven to be unpopular, surely that is democracy working how it should?
Maybe we need to rebrand the U turn.
www.thetimes.com/article/0044...
Reposted by Maeve Schaffer
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
January 7, 2026 at 8:49 AM
Telling isn't it that all the "protect our girls" people are still on X despite what Grok is doing.
"Each time my university friends jokingly echoed [my accent] ... I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning. Within a year, the identifying characteristics of my accent had gone, replaced with a sort of unplaceable, vaguely northern voice."
🥲 hard relate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🥲 hard relate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s not easy being an English northerner surrounded by southerners. Here’s how we survive | Robyn Vinter
University undergraduates are forming northern societies, but in other circumstances we find different ways to be ourselves, says Guardian north of England correspondent Robyn Vinter
www.theguardian.com
January 7, 2026 at 9:42 AM
"Each time my university friends jokingly echoed [my accent] ... I found myself undergoing elocution conditioning. Within a year, the identifying characteristics of my accent had gone, replaced with a sort of unplaceable, vaguely northern voice."
🥲 hard relate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
🥲 hard relate
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Does anyone else feel incredibly pessimistic about the future of the planet?
End of rules based order, end of NATO, climate change, rise of fascism and on and on…
My goodness it is so disheartening to be a progressive watching everything you fear come into fruition.
End of rules based order, end of NATO, climate change, rise of fascism and on and on…
My goodness it is so disheartening to be a progressive watching everything you fear come into fruition.
January 7, 2026 at 9:29 AM
Does anyone else feel incredibly pessimistic about the future of the planet?
End of rules based order, end of NATO, climate change, rise of fascism and on and on…
My goodness it is so disheartening to be a progressive watching everything you fear come into fruition.
End of rules based order, end of NATO, climate change, rise of fascism and on and on…
My goodness it is so disheartening to be a progressive watching everything you fear come into fruition.
I think Kemi might need to go and speak to some young girls and ask them who they’re more worried about.
Is it the bogeyman the media love to blame? Or is it the boys they pass in school every day telling them to “go back to the kitchen”, who idolise Tate and use AI to alter their images.
Grim.
Is it the bogeyman the media love to blame? Or is it the boys they pass in school every day telling them to “go back to the kitchen”, who idolise Tate and use AI to alter their images.
Grim.
December 19, 2025 at 1:47 PM
I think Kemi might need to go and speak to some young girls and ask them who they’re more worried about.
Is it the bogeyman the media love to blame? Or is it the boys they pass in school every day telling them to “go back to the kitchen”, who idolise Tate and use AI to alter their images.
Grim.
Is it the bogeyman the media love to blame? Or is it the boys they pass in school every day telling them to “go back to the kitchen”, who idolise Tate and use AI to alter their images.
Grim.
Reposted by Maeve Schaffer
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
December 18, 2025 at 4:15 PM
Dog-whistle and factually incorrect. Ladies, raise your hand if you were sexually assaulted by a boy at school? I’d wager this or a family member is most women’s first experience of sexual violence
If the President of the United States can call a woman “piggy” with no recourse or consequences, the fight for the rights of all women to be heard and treated as equals has become a joke.
Great op-ed
Great op-ed
Opinion | "Today, it’s impossible to ignore that the world is increasingly shaped in Donald Trump’s male chauvinist image," writes Terri White trib.al/l5P81eT
November 19, 2025 at 4:27 PM
If the President of the United States can call a woman “piggy” with no recourse or consequences, the fight for the rights of all women to be heard and treated as equals has become a joke.
Great op-ed
Great op-ed
Hello Blue Sky 🫶🏼 I’m late to the party but here I am, posting all things politics, regional and local news, and progressive ideas !!
November 19, 2025 at 4:25 PM
Hello Blue Sky 🫶🏼 I’m late to the party but here I am, posting all things politics, regional and local news, and progressive ideas !!