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The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.
February 18, 2025 at 11:30 PM
The sooner we collectively realize that Elon Musk is a shitposting, conspiracy-addled fool, who needs to stay out of public policy not upend it, the safer we’ll all be.
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They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
February 18, 2025 at 9:19 PM
They tried to cancel John Crace from covering the right-wing jamboree at ExCel but no one can stop him filing copy this good
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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DWP research links NHS waiting-lists with rise in disability benefit claimants.
Poor healthcare causes disabilities.
41% of disability benefit claimants are on NHS waiting-list; can't get jobs without treatment.
UK govt wants to cut benefits, force sick/disabled to work. Must improve healthcare.
Poor healthcare causes disabilities.
41% of disability benefit claimants are on NHS waiting-list; can't get jobs without treatment.
UK govt wants to cut benefits, force sick/disabled to work. Must improve healthcare.
DWP research links NHS waiting-lists with rise in number of claimants of disability benefits
A government report has provided crucial new evidence that links longer NHS waiting-lists with increases in the number of disabled people on benefits. The research shows that more than two-fifths (…
www.disabilitynewsservice.com
February 15, 2025 at 1:08 PM
DWP research links NHS waiting-lists with rise in disability benefit claimants.
Poor healthcare causes disabilities.
41% of disability benefit claimants are on NHS waiting-list; can't get jobs without treatment.
UK govt wants to cut benefits, force sick/disabled to work. Must improve healthcare.
Poor healthcare causes disabilities.
41% of disability benefit claimants are on NHS waiting-list; can't get jobs without treatment.
UK govt wants to cut benefits, force sick/disabled to work. Must improve healthcare.
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Canadians adapting to Trump’s threats by cancelling holidays to US, buying Canadian, and rewiring their trade to Europe and Asia.
👏👏👏 🇨🇦 ♥️🇪🇺
👏👏👏 🇨🇦 ♥️🇪🇺
February 15, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Canadians adapting to Trump’s threats by cancelling holidays to US, buying Canadian, and rewiring their trade to Europe and Asia.
👏👏👏 🇨🇦 ♥️🇪🇺
👏👏👏 🇨🇦 ♥️🇪🇺
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An Attorney General prioritising fidelity to law and principle, instead of chasing cheap headlines with bogus and exploitative legal applications, is a welcome change.
Statement from the Attorney General on the case of Axel Rudakubana
The Attorney General Lord Hermer KC has released a statement following a request to review Axel Rudakubana’s sentence under the Unduly Lenient Sentence scheme.
www.gov.uk
February 16, 2025 at 11:50 AM
An Attorney General prioritising fidelity to law and principle, instead of chasing cheap headlines with bogus and exploitative legal applications, is a welcome change.
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Yes Birmingham has some big challenges but Will Lloyd’s hatchet job ignores its dynamism and diversity. Not to mention that Birmingham was the UK’s top city for investment outside London last year. Obvs doesn’t fit his crappy narrative. www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/resource/bir...
Birmingham becomes UK’s top city for investment outside London
www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com
February 11, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Yes Birmingham has some big challenges but Will Lloyd’s hatchet job ignores its dynamism and diversity. Not to mention that Birmingham was the UK’s top city for investment outside London last year. Obvs doesn’t fit his crappy narrative. www.greaterbirminghamchambers.com/resource/bir...
@evidenceprof.bsky.social great to listen to the Undisclosed Update whilst out on my walk today. Can't wait for the new season to drop!
February 11, 2025 at 4:16 PM
@evidenceprof.bsky.social great to listen to the Undisclosed Update whilst out on my walk today. Can't wait for the new season to drop!
Absolutely!
There are just two things we should protest against when it comes to trump and musk.
Everything they say, and everything they do.
Everything they say, and everything they do.
February 10, 2025 at 8:15 AM
Absolutely!
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Elon Musk is a terrible president.
February 3, 2025 at 10:34 PM
Elon Musk is a terrible president.
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From mid 2024!: “a review of contributions *now* could help to protect councils’ financial positions & give greater certainty to council tax payers and central government”. Why didn’t Max 🪓Caller act on this? Is he ‘financially illiterate’? He needs to go. www.lcp.com/en/media-cen...
LCP estimates that councils could save £3 billion each year by cutting LGPS contribution
LCP has estimated that if contributions reflected the current market the cash requirement from councils could be reduced by more than £3bn each year.
www.lcp.com
February 5, 2025 at 3:25 PM
From mid 2024!: “a review of contributions *now* could help to protect councils’ financial positions & give greater certainty to council tax payers and central government”. Why didn’t Max 🪓Caller act on this? Is he ‘financially illiterate’? He needs to go. www.lcp.com/en/media-cen...
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Some of the language surrounding the utter filth of t-rump's Gaza "proposal" is shuddering-horrific and amounts to... erm... well I'm calling it
Ethnic-Cleansing-Washing
Until someone comes up with a better, less flippant sounding term.
Not just from CNN, call it out wherever it is encountered.
Ethnic-Cleansing-Washing
Until someone comes up with a better, less flippant sounding term.
Not just from CNN, call it out wherever it is encountered.
A ‘stunning proposal’. CNN’s euphemism for ethnic cleansing is up there with Swift’s “modest proposal” for cannibalism in Ireland
The lengths to which the American press is going to describe Donald Trump's Gaza plan in every other way but as ethnic cleansing is quite something
February 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Some of the language surrounding the utter filth of t-rump's Gaza "proposal" is shuddering-horrific and amounts to... erm... well I'm calling it
Ethnic-Cleansing-Washing
Until someone comes up with a better, less flippant sounding term.
Not just from CNN, call it out wherever it is encountered.
Ethnic-Cleansing-Washing
Until someone comes up with a better, less flippant sounding term.
Not just from CNN, call it out wherever it is encountered.
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The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.
Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.
If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.
Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.
If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.
February 5, 2025 at 9:06 AM
The President of the United States welcome a leader wanted by the ICC and officially endorsed ethnic cleansing.
Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.
If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.
Now would be a good time for our government to defend international law.
If they won’t say it, we will: Palestinians aren’t going anywhere.
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Now Trump wants to 'take over' Gaza, own it 'long term', after Palestinians are removed and turn it into "Riviera of the Middle East".
Stupid or ignorant.
So far he wants to control Greenland, Panama, Canada, now Gaza.
What next?
Stupid or ignorant.
So far he wants to control Greenland, Panama, Canada, now Gaza.
What next?
Analysis: Trump’s Gaza ‘Riviera’ plan is the most outlandish idea in the history of US Middle East peacemaking | CNN Politics
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu couldn’t keep the smirk off his face.
edition.cnn.com
February 5, 2025 at 7:54 AM
Now Trump wants to 'take over' Gaza, own it 'long term', after Palestinians are removed and turn it into "Riviera of the Middle East".
Stupid or ignorant.
So far he wants to control Greenland, Panama, Canada, now Gaza.
What next?
Stupid or ignorant.
So far he wants to control Greenland, Panama, Canada, now Gaza.
What next?
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Oh Canada!
Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon
Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon
February 3, 2025 at 4:40 PM
Oh Canada!
Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon
Cartoon by Bruce MacKinnon
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Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
February 2, 2025 at 11:19 PM
Dear Mexico, Canada, Panama, and Europe:
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
100 percent tariffs on Tesla.
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USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.”
THIS HAS TO STOP.
THIS HAS TO STOP.
February 2, 2025 at 9:23 PM
USAID is a criminal organization,” Mr. Musk wrote on Sunday in a social media post that many aid workers saw as confirmation the agency would soon be absorbed into the State Department and that some viewed as a potential threat to their personal safety. “Time for it to die.”
THIS HAS TO STOP.
THIS HAS TO STOP.
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Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024.
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024
Voter ID, as made compulsory by the Tory Government in 2023, prevented a lot of people from being able to vote
northwestbylines.co.uk
January 31, 2025 at 1:47 PM
Almost 2 million people in the UK didn’t have the right ID to vote in 2024.
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
"Using data from the British Election Study, we tracked people eligible to vote between 2023 and 2024 and found that 5% of people eligible to vote – nearly 2 million people – didn’t own any recognised voter identification."
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Jo Ellis has just posted this video on Facebook, confirming to be a "Black Hawk pilot with Virginia National Guard" and not - as many viral social media posts had claimed - linked to the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC.
January 31, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Jo Ellis has just posted this video on Facebook, confirming to be a "Black Hawk pilot with Virginia National Guard" and not - as many viral social media posts had claimed - linked to the Black Hawk helicopter involved in the crash in Washington DC.
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Ten Heil Marys please Calvin.
January 30, 2025 at 10:00 AM
Ten Heil Marys please Calvin.
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Man and dog on a country lane at night, by Newcastle-based artist Pete Rumney (b.1974). #NorthernArt
January 30, 2025 at 1:55 PM
Man and dog on a country lane at night, by Newcastle-based artist Pete Rumney (b.1974). #NorthernArt
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An investigation by Forensic Architecture found that a total of 335 bullets were fired at the car and that the tank operators had a clear view of the two children inside the vehicle
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/memory/29-ja...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/memory/29-ja...
29 January 2025: One Year Since the Murder of Hind Rajab
Honoring the Memory of Hind Rajab, Her Family, and the Countless Victims of Genocide in Gaza
www.hindrajabfoundation.org
January 29, 2025 at 6:29 PM
An investigation by Forensic Architecture found that a total of 335 bullets were fired at the car and that the tank operators had a clear view of the two children inside the vehicle
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/memory/29-ja...
www.hindrajabfoundation.org/memory/29-ja...
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Exclusive: Birmingham MP urges Rayner to intervene re @BhamCityCouncil & West Midlands Pension Fund. www.room151.co.uk/local-govern...
Exclusive: Birmingham MP urges Rayner to intervene amid WMPF overspend allegations
An independent Birmingham MP has backed a call on the secretary of state, Angela Rayner, to stage an intervention freezing Birmingham City Council’s budget, amid allegations that the cash-strapped cou...
www.room151.co.uk
January 29, 2025 at 9:57 PM
Exclusive: Birmingham MP urges Rayner to intervene re @BhamCityCouncil & West Midlands Pension Fund. www.room151.co.uk/local-govern...