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Roger Kline
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Research Fellow, Middlesex University Business School. Disruptive innovator. Perennial optimist. Views are in my personal capacity
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The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10
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The Labour Together scandal goes right to the heart of No 10 – Starmer has nowhere to hide | Peter Geoghegan
He can sack who he wants to protect himself, but all roads currently lead back to the prime minister, says Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale
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February 18, 2026 at 6:45 AM
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Brilliant
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V Spehar | On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln Memorial,... | Instagram
220K likes, 4,778 comments - underthedesknews on February 16, 2026: "On President’s Day, the First Amendment Troop staged “ResistDance” — a tribute and act of artistic dissent — at the Lincoln...
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February 17, 2026 at 3:46 PM
rogerkline.bsky.social
Not my area of exp0ertise but this looks really interesting? www.theguardian.com/education/20...
‘A social justice issue’: London school believes it has model for Send inclusion
Founder and staff at TCES Nurture primary, which has not excluded a child in 25 years, say key factor is how support is delivered
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February 17, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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First genocide, now you stop the doctors trying to provide healthcare from even getting to Gaza if they speak out.

Shame on you Israel.

Hamas are butchers. What are you?
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Medics in UK and US say they have been barred from Gaza after speaking out
Israel accused of denying doctors re-entry into territory after they gave first-hand testimony on conflict
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February 17, 2026 at 12:55 PM
rogerkline.bsky.social
Social care spending in the EU and the UK. No wonder we have an NHS bottleneck
February 16, 2026 at 8:37 AM
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zackpolanski.bsky.social
Dear Gorton & Denton,

Something you might want to hear...
February 15, 2026 at 11:29 AM
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Labour think tank commissioned firm to investigate journalists, the BBC understands
Labour Together paid at least £30,000 to
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February 15, 2026 at 12:56 PM
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sheilacunliffe.bsky.social
See @rogerkline.bsky.social paper 'No More Tick Boxes' at citou.com/research-and-resources and elsewhere
Research and Resources – Citou Consulting
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February 14, 2026 at 11:59 AM
rogerkline.bsky.social
Outside Manchester United's ground. Nice one.
February 15, 2026 at 10:02 AM
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Keep digging. Its pathetic
Cooper defends decision to proscribe Palestine Action despite ban being ruled unlawful www.theguardian.com/politics/liv...
Cooper defends Palestine Action ban despite court ruling it was unlawful – UK politics live
High court said the then home secretary had not followed her own policies when bringing in the ban last summer
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February 15, 2026 at 9:59 AM
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A car crash a day keeps the voters away www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
UK Palestine Action ban ruled unlawful, in humiliating blow for ministers
Thousands arrested for supporting group since proscription are now in legal limbo as Mahmood says she will appeal
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February 13, 2026 at 8:11 PM
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Ive signed. Have you
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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February 13, 2026 at 7:51 PM
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Nice one Senator www.facebook.com/reel/1580695...
684K views · 29K reactions | Today, I confronted Jeremy Carl, Trump's nominee to a top State Department role, about his history of racist remarks, including ridiculous claims that white people are exp...
Today, I confronted Jeremy Carl, Trump's nominee to a top State Department role, about his history of racist remarks, including ridiculous claims that white people are experiencing a “cultural...
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February 13, 2026 at 7:29 PM
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A court has ruled that the government's authoritarian ban on Palestine Action was unlawful.

Time to stop criminalising the people protesting a genocide - and start ending the UK's complicity.
February 13, 2026 at 10:22 AM
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I dont usually share Daily Mail stories but this one deserves to to be
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Wes deletes pics of mentor Mandy he's calling 'stupid and reckless'
ANDREW PIERCE: Bursting with pride, a newly elected Wes Streeting posts a photograph of his mum, Corrina, in the kitchen of her home with a smiling Lord Mandelson.
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February 8, 2026 at 7:34 PM
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Labour faces a battle to hold on to its 13,000 majority, with the Greens the bookies’ favourite .
After the Mandelson shambles, Labour cannot possibly win, so this time Labour voters it has got to be the candidate that will beat Reform = Hannah the Plumber
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‘A pollster’s nightmare’: stakes are high in three-way fight for Gorton and Denton
Labour faces a battle to hold on to its 13,000 majority, with the Greens the bookies’ favourite and Reform hoping to gain from split vote on left
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February 8, 2026 at 3:42 PM
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£55000 payment to Mandelson when he resigned. He has no shame and nor does Kier Starmer for ever appointing him. - even after he was warned. But then Mandelson mentored McSweeney and he got Kier Starmer election as Labour leader. . www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Mandelson should hand back US ambassador payout, says cabinet minister
Pressure grows on Keir Starmer as Labour peer reported to have received payment worth three months’ salary when he quit in September
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February 8, 2026 at 2:54 PM
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The Nolan Principles. They have got lost somewhere in Westminster. If found please return to No.10 Downing Street,

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The Seven Principles of Public Life
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February 7, 2026 at 8:21 PM
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Tackling racism in the NHS. Links to evidence you might find useful
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Tackling racism in the NHS. Links to evidence you may find useful.
I am repeatedly asked for links to research and blogs I have contributed to on evidence based interventions in the NHS on tackling NHS racism. So I hope this summary of some of them may be useful.
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February 7, 2026 at 1:26 PM
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No joke: I got angry hate mail today for writing an obituary of a Black woman scientist—because the person felt she did didn’t deserve the recognition.

Which just makes me want to share it again: www.nature.com/articles/d41...
Gladys Mae West obituary: mathematician who pioneered GPS technology
She made key contributions to US cold-war science despite facing huge barriers as a Black woman.
www.nature.com
February 6, 2026 at 9:09 AM
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Just seen this. Assuming it is true what concequences flowed from it?
NHS trust spent £2.4m on controversial surveillance system that films vulnerable inpatients 24/7, despite damning internal report finding major issues with the technology and company that owns it, novaramedia.com/2026/01/15/n...
NHS Trust Spent Millions on Controversial ‘Spy Camera’ Tech Despite Damning Internal Report
Exclusive: An NHS trust spent over £2.4m on Oxevision, a technology that films vulnerable patients in their bedrooms 24/7, even after its own internal evaluation report highlighted significant issues ...
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February 6, 2026 at 11:44 AM
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What is the point of this government?
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UK plans to cut climate finance to poor countries by a fifth despite promising more help
Exclusive: Campaigners say proposed cut from £11.9bn over past five years to £9bn over next five years will cost lives and livelihoods
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February 5, 2026 at 5:07 PM
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I've spent my entire adult life being some sort of constructive rebel. The meltdown in the Labour Party seems to me to lead only one way in the Gorton and Denton by-election for anyone serious about defeating Reform there. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
The Green surge shows British politics has reached a turning point - and it has surprisingly little to do with Zack Polanski | Aditya Chakrabortty
At a party event in a school hall in Lewisham, people told me how disillusionment with Labour has led to this moment, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty
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February 5, 2026 at 11:42 AM
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Palantir. Agents for the IDF and for ICE. Now we know how they got huge NHS contracts. Time they were removed.
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Mandelson’s links with US tech firm Palantir must be fully exposed, campaigners warn
Government faces call for transparency on former peer’s involvement amid fears he may have leaked more sensitive information
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February 5, 2026 at 6:32 AM
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Two thirds of UCU staff walk out. I worked for UCU two decades ago. In fact I ran for General Secretary and just lost. There is no way two thirds of the staff would walk out if the story of victimisation isnt true. My sources say its been coming for years.
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UCU staff walk out over alleged ‘trade union victimisation’
Leaders of the union call the claims ‘categorically untrue’
feweek.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:13 PM