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The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.
I left university in 2019 with £49,600 of debt. A few months later, I became an MP and have since received a salary that puts me in the top 5% in the country. 6 years on, the repayments from my salary have brought this total to down to £48,600 - just £1,000 less.
January 17, 2026 at 10:34 AM
The Doomsday Machine that is our university funding system will destroy everything in the end. First it destroys individual lives, then social mobility, then most universities, followed by the structure of income tax and the pension system. In the end it could threaten to destroy the economy itself.
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I know its a long shot but to rub salt into the wounds of yesterday my youngest left his scarf somewhere at the match yesterday. Got a load of badges on from this seasons Home games. Hes gutted.
Any reposts appreciated in the hope it might be recovered.
Any reposts appreciated in the hope it might be recovered.
January 11, 2026 at 11:37 AM
I know its a long shot but to rub salt into the wounds of yesterday my youngest left his scarf somewhere at the match yesterday. Got a load of badges on from this seasons Home games. Hes gutted.
Any reposts appreciated in the hope it might be recovered.
Any reposts appreciated in the hope it might be recovered.
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Sadly it is official, my current employment contract finishes at the end of March. It has been a fantastic three years at Migrant Voice. If you, or someone you know, knows of job opportunities for an experienced policy, advocacy and comms person, across multiple sectors, please do let me know.
January 8, 2026 at 3:03 PM
Sadly it is official, my current employment contract finishes at the end of March. It has been a fantastic three years at Migrant Voice. If you, or someone you know, knows of job opportunities for an experienced policy, advocacy and comms person, across multiple sectors, please do let me know.
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It's OK for North Korea to send troops to help Russia wage war in Europe.
It's "unthinkable" for Germany, France, Britain and Poland to have their soldiers stop Russia from waging war in Europe.
In what universe does this make sense?
It's "unthinkable" for Germany, France, Britain and Poland to have their soldiers stop Russia from waging war in Europe.
In what universe does this make sense?
January 9, 2026 at 1:08 PM
It's OK for North Korea to send troops to help Russia wage war in Europe.
It's "unthinkable" for Germany, France, Britain and Poland to have their soldiers stop Russia from waging war in Europe.
In what universe does this make sense?
It's "unthinkable" for Germany, France, Britain and Poland to have their soldiers stop Russia from waging war in Europe.
In what universe does this make sense?
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Day 402 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia. Our weekly march draws a large crowd — despite freezing temperatures, threats of mass arrests, and the holiday season keeping many out of town.
January 3, 2026 at 4:09 PM
Day 402 of daily, uninterrupted protests in Georgia. Our weekly march draws a large crowd — despite freezing temperatures, threats of mass arrests, and the holiday season keeping many out of town.
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Has he thought this one through?
December 29, 2025 at 9:16 PM
Has he thought this one through?
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A 'Malignant Narcissist' is a severe personality type combining traits of NPD with antisocial features, marked by grandiosity, lack of empathy, manipulation, and aggression, often finding pleasure in others' suffering, exhibiting paranoia, and actively exploiting and harming people without remorse.
December 28, 2025 at 2:23 AM
A 'Malignant Narcissist' is a severe personality type combining traits of NPD with antisocial features, marked by grandiosity, lack of empathy, manipulation, and aggression, often finding pleasure in others' suffering, exhibiting paranoia, and actively exploiting and harming people without remorse.
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This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
December 27, 2025 at 9:42 AM
This is literally what the Telegraph campaigned for.
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It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
Former EU commissioner and activists barred from US in attack on European tech regulators
State department accuses group of pressuring tech firms to censor or suppress American viewpoints through regulation of disinformation
www.theguardian.com
December 24, 2025 at 4:24 AM
It's Trump policy that U.S. tech must be globally dominant.
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
It's also US policy that its tech corps must be free from:
Regulation. Taxation. Fact checking and monitoring for hate lies, disinformation.
All are now being treated as attacks on the U.S. itself.
www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Act on this folks WE cannot allow this DISASTER again!!!
🚨BREAKING:
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
The government has announced they plan to use PFI 2.0 to fund NHS neighbourhood health centres. This will see cash that should go toward treating patients being paid out to private finance investors.
Email your MP now to oppose this plan:
weownit.org.uk/act-now/no-pfi
Just days to STOP new NHS private finance debts - take action now
Your MP can help STOP plans for new private finance debts in our NHS in the Autumn Budget
weownit.org.uk
November 25, 2025 at 10:36 AM
Act on this folks WE cannot allow this DISASTER again!!!
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
Save NHS dentistry now!
I just signed the 38 Degrees petition calling on the Government to properly fund NHS dentistry. Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable dental care, so now the Government needs to stu...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 29, 2025 at 11:17 AM
Millions of us are still struggling to access affordable NHS dental care. I’ve signed 38 Degrees’ petition demanding Keir Starmer properly funds NHS dentistry now, will you join me? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/fu...
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Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
October 25, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Beth Rigby: "Keir Starmer has changed his top team more than I've had hot dinners."
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
In two years before Starmer we had 3 PMs, 4 Chancellors, 3 Foreign Secretaries, 5 Home Secretaries, 5 Education Secretaries, 5 Cabinet Secretaries, etc. - total 221 ministerial departures.
Maybe Beth is on a diet.
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"The PM’s response [to backbench unhappiness] has been to dismantle the whips’ office that warned him of the dangers. This is the equivalent of responding to smoke coming out of your kitchen by ripping out your fire alarm and comforting yourself that the annoying beeping has stopped."
'Should they move left blah blah, no they need to worry about Reform blah blah' - this stuff is babytalk, they are the government, they need to worry about persistent inflation, poor public services and our exposed public finances:
Starmer needs to get serious about governing — and quick
The prime minister has to change or his party will seek a change of its own
www.ft.com
October 25, 2025 at 12:07 PM
"The PM’s response [to backbench unhappiness] has been to dismantle the whips’ office that warned him of the dangers. This is the equivalent of responding to smoke coming out of your kitchen by ripping out your fire alarm and comforting yourself that the annoying beeping has stopped."
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation
For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences.
They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...
you.38degrees.org.uk
October 17, 2025 at 10:51 PM
Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press.
Back her petition now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
Back her petition now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
October 15, 2025 at 5:49 PM
Jacqui Hames, featured in #TheHack, is calling on the Prime Minister to put the public ahead of Murdoch, and act now to end corruption and abuse in the press.
Back her petition now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
Back her petition now:
you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...
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WOW !!
I hope everyone sees this post!
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I hope everyone sees this post!
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October 6, 2025 at 5:09 PM
WOW !!
I hope everyone sees this post!
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I hope everyone sees this post!
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Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair
open.substack.com/pub/democrac...
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Inside the Tony Blair Institute
A former PM, Trump's 'CEO of everything' and NHS data - what could go wrong?
open.substack.com
September 24, 2025 at 12:22 PM
Larry Ellison’s £257m bet on Tony Blair
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I see why NATO members don't want to call this an armed attack, ie an Article 5 contingency. But @phillipspobrien.bsky.social is right. 17 yrs after Russia invaded Georgia, Western leaders still don't understand that Putin is provoked by weakness, not strength. Deterring him will require force.
Just sent out this free post. Russia attacked Poland last night--and the NATO response indicates institutional and national failure. They were clearly not prepared, cannot even call the Russian attack an attack, and do not understand their real security concerns. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...
NATO States Have Failed
They have not prepared and do not understand their national interests
open.substack.com
September 10, 2025 at 10:53 AM
I see why NATO members don't want to call this an armed attack, ie an Article 5 contingency. But @phillipspobrien.bsky.social is right. 17 yrs after Russia invaded Georgia, Western leaders still don't understand that Putin is provoked by weakness, not strength. Deterring him will require force.
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EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
What are the Boris Files and what do they reveal about former PM’s conduct?
Leaked material from Johnson’s private office raises serious questions relating to his time in No 10 and since he resigned
www.theguardian.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:22 PM
EXCLUSIVE - Today the Guardian is publishing the Boris Files
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
A trove of leaked data from the office of Boris Johnson.
It reveals how Johnson is using the relationships forged in the UK’s highest elected office to facilitate his personal enrichment.
www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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🔴 Brexiteers hate the world they created
They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer.
📝 New post 👇🏻
They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer.
📝 New post 👇🏻
Brexiteers hate the world they created
A rant...
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August 30, 2025 at 9:07 AM
🔴 Brexiteers hate the world they created
They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer.
📝 New post 👇🏻
They claim that Britain is broken, while still clutching the hammer.
📝 New post 👇🏻
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Did you know? Black holes are the simplest objects in science - they’re built from nothing more than space & time. I’m giving away 5 signed copies of my paperback A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a UK person chosen randomly from those retweeting this blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social
August 11, 2025 at 7:52 AM
Did you know? Black holes are the simplest objects in science - they’re built from nothing more than space & time. I’m giving away 5 signed copies of my paperback A CRACK IN EVERYTHING to a UK person chosen randomly from those retweeting this blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/pro... @headofzeus.bsky.social
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With Brexit, immigration etc - this is how populism works. Focus on a problem. Make it worse. Focus on the problem again. Make it worse still. Rinse and repeat
The utter hypocrisy of Jenrick et al on this is fathomless
August 10, 2025 at 10:27 AM
With Brexit, immigration etc - this is how populism works. Focus on a problem. Make it worse. Focus on the problem again. Make it worse still. Rinse and repeat