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Magazine that accuses anyone who even dares to think about criticising the Israeli government of ‘antisemitism’ apparently fine with Farage not apologising for allegedly saying ‘H*tler was right’ and making gas chamber noises to descendants of holocaust survivors. Through the looking glass stuff.
December 1, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Magazine that accuses anyone who even dares to think about criticising the Israeli government of ‘antisemitism’ apparently fine with Farage not apologising for allegedly saying ‘H*tler was right’ and making gas chamber noises to descendants of holocaust survivors. Through the looking glass stuff.
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An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
NHS England » Report of the independent ADHD Taskforce: Part 1
April 2025
www.england.nhs.uk
December 4, 2025 at 12:48 AM
An independent taskforce *just* did a huge review of ADHD in England, and the conclusion was that it's "under-recognised, under-diagnosed and under-treated."
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
www.england.nhs.uk/long-read/re...
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Massive difference in the way that mental health review is being described by the charities involved and by the press….
December 4, 2025 at 1:35 PM
Massive difference in the way that mental health review is being described by the charities involved and by the press….
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Paddington 4: Paddington in VRAEM
Paddington reveals that he's a deep cover Shining Path militant operative and forces the Brown family to join up as cocaine traffickers.
Paddington reveals that he's a deep cover Shining Path militant operative and forces the Brown family to join up as cocaine traffickers.
December 3, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Paddington 4: Paddington in VRAEM
Paddington reveals that he's a deep cover Shining Path militant operative and forces the Brown family to join up as cocaine traffickers.
Paddington reveals that he's a deep cover Shining Path militant operative and forces the Brown family to join up as cocaine traffickers.
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The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.
I wish I was making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
December 3, 2025 at 8:20 PM
The right wing British politics twitter reaction/the policy.
I wish I was making this up.
I wish I was making this up.
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Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
Exclusive: CEO says decision taken with ‘utmost regret and sadness’ after supreme court ruling on definition of a woman
The Women’s Institute will no longer accept transgender women as members from April following the UK supreme court ruling on the legal definition of a woman, the Guardian can reveal.
Melissa Green, the chief executive of the National Federation of Women’s Institutes, said the organisation had taken the decision with the “utmost regret and sadness”, adding it had “no choice” but to exclude trans women from its membership. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
December 3, 2025 at 10:48 AM
Women’s Institute will no longer accept trans women as members from April
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GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
December 3, 2025 at 7:07 PM
GB News now broadcasting calls to remove the ethnic minority MPs from parliament
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This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
This is the point where the anti-Reeves stories tip into madness. Criticise her performance all you like but what the hell is this?
December 2, 2025 at 10:01 PM
This is a borderline psychotic thing to put in a newspaper.
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Also, much *economics* understanding of our politicians and media is terrible, and far too embedded in a "common sense" that is increasingly disconnected from any real world referents, a circular human centipede of bad assumptions and biases.
I agree Polanski needs to do better with his economic knowledge, but he should be replying that the rest of the political class has *no* real understanding the single most important threat to our lives
December 3, 2025 at 9:42 AM
Also, much *economics* understanding of our politicians and media is terrible, and far too embedded in a "common sense" that is increasingly disconnected from any real world referents, a circular human centipede of bad assumptions and biases.
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I think there's a good essay to be written about how many of the pathologies of both contemporary neo-Blairism and contemporary neo-Corbynism can be traced back to the political culture(s) of the NUS - in which many of the key players spent their formative years
There's actually one other place Zarah Sultana exists, which I think is pretty central to understanding whole political habitus: the NUS
December 2, 2025 at 11:08 AM
I think there's a good essay to be written about how many of the pathologies of both contemporary neo-Blairism and contemporary neo-Corbynism can be traced back to the political culture(s) of the NUS - in which many of the key players spent their formative years
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Two things from the DfE SEND 'conversation' docs:
- The 'conversation' will be about five single-word principles, & ideas raised by stakeholders - not the Department's own specific proposals
- In a novel take on the word 'conversation,' the DfE may use AI to parse written responses from families
- The 'conversation' will be about five single-word principles, & ideas raised by stakeholders - not the Department's own specific proposals
- In a novel take on the word 'conversation,' the DfE may use AI to parse written responses from families
Schools minister Georgia Gould is to lead a series of face to face engagement events aimed at shaping the government’s SEND reform plans. www.tes.com/magazine/new...
SEND: Gould to hear public’s view on national support framework
Schools minister Georgia Gould will hold a series of face-to-face public events about DfE’s planned reforms
www.tes.com
December 2, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Two things from the DfE SEND 'conversation' docs:
- The 'conversation' will be about five single-word principles, & ideas raised by stakeholders - not the Department's own specific proposals
- In a novel take on the word 'conversation,' the DfE may use AI to parse written responses from families
- The 'conversation' will be about five single-word principles, & ideas raised by stakeholders - not the Department's own specific proposals
- In a novel take on the word 'conversation,' the DfE may use AI to parse written responses from families
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I am almost certainly eligible for PIP (see the wheelchair in my header pic, amongst other disabilities). But I have never applied for it, even when I have been very poor, because I am terrified of being subjected to this level of surveillance. I preferred to eat cornflakes and keep the heating off.
The guy's literally got one leg, but that's apparently one too many for the DWP to consider him disabled www.mirror.co.uk/money/dwp-fi...
DWP demands £36k PIP back from one-legged dad filmed playing cricket
Shaun Rigby lost a leg when he was a child
www.mirror.co.uk
December 1, 2025 at 9:48 PM
I am almost certainly eligible for PIP (see the wheelchair in my header pic, amongst other disabilities). But I have never applied for it, even when I have been very poor, because I am terrified of being subjected to this level of surveillance. I preferred to eat cornflakes and keep the heating off.
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Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
December 1, 2025 at 10:58 AM
Actually doing Whamageddon at Christmas is a moral failing, you should be listening to Last Christmas at least once a day if not ten
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Just in case it's not clear - that is, invetstment by your government!
Into public assets for the common benefit
Into public assets for the common benefit
cant unsee
once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment
once you get this, the only thing you want in your country is FAR more public investment
November 30, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Just in case it's not clear - that is, invetstment by your government!
Into public assets for the common benefit
Into public assets for the common benefit
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This doesn’t even pass the laugh test, let alone the smell one. If you’re taken in by this, then you’re the type of person whose work colleagues regularly sends you to the shop for a tin of tartan paint and a long stand.
December 1, 2025 at 11:25 AM
This doesn’t even pass the laugh test, let alone the smell one. If you’re taken in by this, then you’re the type of person whose work colleagues regularly sends you to the shop for a tin of tartan paint and a long stand.
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Managers are 2% of the NHS workforce, vs nearly 10% in the rest of the economy.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
sounds like another thing downstream of management cuts - nobody overseeing this stuff properly
November 27, 2025 at 7:36 PM
Managers are 2% of the NHS workforce, vs nearly 10% in the rest of the economy.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
We spend 2% of the NHS budget on admin and management vs 5-6% in most other European nations.
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Dropped on her head at birth
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
Kemi Badenoch says welfare spending is unchristian
www.thetimes.com
November 28, 2025 at 11:36 AM
Dropped on her head at birth
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Under Kemi Badenoch the Conservatives have ceded both the answer to 'what's the lever I pull to get the left out of power' to Reform and are rapidly on their way to ceding 'what's the least nutty option available to me on the right?' to Reform too.
No response from the Conservative party to my questions about this and the post still remains on her account.
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
So apparently openly spreading anti-Muslim hate is absolutely fine now
The Conservative Party's leader in London, Susan Hall, just shared this Islamophobic disinformation about Sadiq Khan, after it was posted on X by a racist troll
November 29, 2025 at 4:42 PM
Under Kemi Badenoch the Conservatives have ceded both the answer to 'what's the lever I pull to get the left out of power' to Reform and are rapidly on their way to ceding 'what's the least nutty option available to me on the right?' to Reform too.
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Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they’re “not welcome” at upcoming tour
“I think that’s a hard line for me now"
“I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden”
www.nme.com/news/music/h...
“I think that’s a hard line for me now"
“I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden”
www.nme.com/news/music/h...
Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they're "not welcome" at upcoming tour
Hayley Williams has declared that racist, sexist and anti-trans people are “not welcome” at her upcoming solo tour.
www.nme.com
November 29, 2025 at 11:38 PM
Hayley Williams tells racists, sexists and anti-trans people they’re “not welcome” at upcoming tour
“I think that’s a hard line for me now"
“I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden”
www.nme.com/news/music/h...
“I think that’s a hard line for me now"
“I don’t want people there who think that trans people are a burden”
www.nme.com/news/music/h...
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not clear whose fault the Your Party fiasco is, but on hearing that the SWP were present, I'm going to think "horses, not zebras"
November 29, 2025 at 10:22 PM
not clear whose fault the Your Party fiasco is, but on hearing that the SWP were present, I'm going to think "horses, not zebras"
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Why would we want to allow SWP
people into Your Party? Has everyone forgotten the Comrade Delta affair? Plus their decades-long wrecking of the British radical left?
people into Your Party? Has everyone forgotten the Comrade Delta affair? Plus their decades-long wrecking of the British radical left?
November 29, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Why would we want to allow SWP
people into Your Party? Has everyone forgotten the Comrade Delta affair? Plus their decades-long wrecking of the British radical left?
people into Your Party? Has everyone forgotten the Comrade Delta affair? Plus their decades-long wrecking of the British radical left?
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Congratulations Labour, this fucker makes Farage look welcoming to immigrants.
November 17, 2025 at 3:27 PM
Congratulations Labour, this fucker makes Farage look welcoming to immigrants.
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Okay, here we go.
Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients.
NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer.
You know what to do
👇✍️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients.
NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer.
You know what to do
👇✍️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
November 28, 2025 at 6:04 PM
Okay, here we go.
Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients.
NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer.
You know what to do
👇✍️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
Health & care staff are no longer allowed a Covid booster, but they're still expected to look after COVID+ patients.
NHS/govt is reneging on its duty of care. Staff will become unwell, and patients too will suffer.
You know what to do
👇✍️
petition.parliament.uk/petitions/74...
