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Toby Earle 🇺🇦 @tobyontv.bsky.social · 1d

Racist arsehole Robert Jenrick holding up a wig like a puppet at his pathetic Tory conference speech which reaffirmed his bellendry

The useless cheeky monkey ventriloquist in Knowing me knowing you

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Steve Senior @stevensenior.bsky.social · 5d

Just. Reduce. Child. Poverty.

Wellcome Trust @wellcometrust.bsky.social · 5d

We want to transform early intervention for youth mental health.

Our new funding award will help achieve this.

We're supporting teams to accelerate the evaluation and roll out of effective social and psychological interventions.

Applications close 11 Nov ⤵️
wellcome.org/research-fun...

Benny Prawira, Lived Experience Advisor at Wellcome says, "My wish is that new psychosocial interventions can do more than just make youth 'feel better' – but actually help them stay in school, find jobs and rebuild relationships."

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スコット @y2skot.bsky.social · 19d

Abir Al-Sahlani, a Swedish member of the European Parliament. Born in Iraq, escaped after her father was locked away as a political prisoner by Saddam Hussein and arrived in Sweden, alone, at 15.

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Silkabelli (mutazione-piromane Edition) @silkabelli.bsky.social · 21d

Queen

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 8h

www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/b... This from 2012 gives a much better view of Handsworth than Jenrick's.

BBC Radio 4 - Mark Steel's in Town, Series 4, Handsworth

Comedian Mark Steel explores reggae, riots and white supremacist gardening in Handsworth.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 16h

Honest Bob Jenrick from Wolverhampton bigging himself up to the moneyed bully boys at the expense of fellow citizens. Specialising in wilfully ignorant dog whistling. £wall. Archive link in replies.

Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · 1d

I've responded to Robert Jenrick's vile comments in @thetimes.com

www.thetimes.com/life-style/c...

I sang Jerusalem with Robert Jenrick at school — he’s wrong about race

The Conservative MP has complained that, visiting Handsworth in Birmingham, he didn’t see ‘another white face’. You can’t judge whether someone is integrated by skin colour, argues fellow Wulfrunian S...

www.thetimes.com

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Kath @kathyburke.bsky.social · 23h

Yes, yes I know I keep banging on about my fucking book! However, if you want one repost this and I’ll do a random winner pick thing by the end of the week because I’m great like that. ♥️📚
#amindofmyown

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 20h

There are 2 Grammar Schools in Handsworth. I was one of the few locals at the girls one. There has been no shortage of white people willing to 'brave' the area to get to them. Over time these schools have become more reflective of the diversity of the area.

Kieran Connell @kieranconnell.bsky.social · 1d

A weird time to be a historian of multiculturalism, who grew up in Birmingham as one of a handful of white kids at school, who has also written a book on Handsworth. My thoughts on Robert Jenrick’s unabashed racism in @thenewworldmag.bsky.social

www.thenewworld.co.uk/kieran-conne...

What Robert Jenrick doesn’t understand about Birmingham

I was one of a handful of white kids at my school in the city. It enriched my life and worldview

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 20h

Or the Royal Oak on Holyhead Road. A desi pub with a tractor over the door 🚜

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 22h

Handsworth's problems are not its people but a post industrial dismantling and lack of investment. Similar impacting 'white' areas elsewhere. An attitude of condescending contempt and a disastrous display of incompetence from a series of arrogant, self-serving politicians does not help.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 22h

I was born and raised in Handsworth and have (white Irish) family still there. The Jenrick/venal right wing gaze is a pathetic racist fallacy.

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Spooky Snigdha @snig.bsky.social · 1d

Sharing this beautiful slice of British reggae; "Handsworth Revolution" by Steel Pulse. The good people of Handsworth and Birmingham don't deserve the likes of racist Robert Jenrick in their streets.
youtu.be/A3LFvaAD2-Y?...

Steel Pulse - Handsworth Revolution - 01 - Handsworth Revolution

YouTube video by ReggaeRootsChannel

youtu.be

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Only in Birmingham podcast @onlyinbirmingham.bsky.social · 1d

#Handsworth could teach @RobertJenrick how to live in a global society. #BenjaminZephaniah - spirit of #Birmingham - said "Handsworth for me is...where I learnt all my skills, my communication skills, my hustling skills, my poetic skills, everything."

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 22h

Handsworth's problems are not its people but a post industrial dismantling and lack of investment. Similar impacting 'white' areas elsewhere. An attitude of condescending contempt and a disastrous display of incompetence from a series of arrogant, self-serving politicians does not help.

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · 22h

I was born and raised in Handsworth and have (white Irish) family still there. The Jenrick/venal right wing gaze is a pathetic racist fallacy.

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Stephen Curry @scurry.bsky.social · 20d

A welcome, if belated, awakening to the disconnect between Musk's actions and the stated values of the Royal Society?

James Ball @jamesrball.com · 20d

Mini-scoop: After resisting pressure to strip Elon Musk of his fellowship for months, the Royal Society is meeting on 1 October to discuss his removal – following his decision to address Tommy Robinson's far-right rally on Saturday.

www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-r...

Royal Society to debate throwing out Elon Musk

One of the most prestigious scientific bodies in the world is considering expelling Musk after his appearance at Tommy Robinson’s extremist London rally

www.thenewworld.co.uk

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Pete Apps @peteapps.bsky.social · 9d

Can't think of many better illustrations of how badly we have botched housing policy than the fact that our bill for housing homeless families (£2.8bn pa) is now higher than the money we spend each year on new affordable housing (£2.3bn)

www.insidehousing.co.uk/news/english...

English councils’ temporary accommodation bill rises to £2.8bn

Councils in England spent a record £2.8bn on temporary accommodation last year, with the annual bill rising by 25% as the homelessness crisis deepens.

www.insidehousing.co.uk

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Will Davies @will-davies.bsky.social · 21d

I have a review of John Ganz's When The Clock Broke in the new LRB www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v4...

William Davies · Repeal the 20th Century: Pre-MAGA

To understand the intellectual coordinates of Trumpism requires us to look in less conventional places and to pay more...

www.lrb.co.uk

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Egon Schiele @artistschiele.bsky.social · Sep 6

Vorstadt, 1914
https://botfrens.com/collections/88/contents/25684

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · Sep 4

An excellent summary of the current state of play ... "where the only standards left in public life are flags."

Henry Morris @mrhenrymorris.substack.com · Sep 4

The PNG Courier overseas edition on mini-roundabouts

(And Yvette Cooper's bunting)

open.substack.com/pub/mrhenrym...

The PNG Courier overseas edition on mini-roundabouts

And Yvette Cooper's bunting

open.substack.com

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · Aug 29

Just seen your post on the flag erector in York on X. Please post here too.

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We Own It @weownit.org.uk · Aug 27

This government promised us 'the biggest wave of insourcing of public services in a generation' 🌊

Have you seen it?! We definitely haven't. 🧐

BUT now that the government are planning changes to the Procurement Act, we've got a chance to put the pressure on. 💪

Take action now. 👇

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · Aug 24

A Lone Enraptured Male www.lrb.co.uk/the-paper/v3... Lovely to read about the hackles rising on Kathleen Jamie.

Kathleen Jamie · A Lone Enraptured Male: The Cult of the Wild

What’s that coming over the hill? A white, middle-class Englishman! A Lone Enraptured Male! From Cambridge! Here to...

www.lrb.co.uk

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H e t e r o t o p ia @artsofexistence.bsky.social · Aug 12

"…the major enemy, the strategic adversary is fascism [...] the fascism in us all, in our heads and in our everyday behaviour, the fascism that causes us to love power, to desire the very thing that dominates and exploits us."
― Michel Foucault
#StreetArt Banksy, London

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Mary Madden @feministgothic.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sad #sociology news via Jonathon Gabe and Mary Ann Elston of the death of Mike Bury a major figure in medical sociology. His early article on chronic illness as biographical disruption, published in the Sociology of Health & Illness in 1982, remains one of its most highly cited.

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