KS_1968
@karenroberts.bsky.social
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Twitter refugee. Enjoy politics, old movies & music esp Bowie. No DMs please.
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karenroberts.bsky.social
9 months gone. 39 more till the orange fartbag is history.
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dankaszeta.bsky.social
Nobody ever saw Patrick Moore and Vasile Milea in the same room at the same time.
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tobyontv.bsky.social
if you’ve ever watched the apprentice, that’s the world without arts or humanities degrees
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resfoundation.bsky.social
Wealth gaps between age groups have widened sharply in recent years.

The difference between those in their early 30s and early 60s has more than doubled in real terms since 2006-08, from £135,000 to £310,000.

Find out more about these trends in our latest report on wealth⬇️

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Chart showing median real family net wealth per adult, by five-year age group: GB
Most age groups saw their wealth rise in the latest period, but gains were far from equal. Those aged 50-54 recorded the largest increase – typical per adult family wealth rose by £35,000 between 2018-20 and 2020-22 – but people in their late 30s saw only a £9,000 rise. These larger gains for older groups have widened existing wealth gaps: the difference between those in their early 30s and early 60s has more than doubled in real terms since 2006-08, from £135,000 to £310,000.
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samfr.bsky.social
If you want to win over younger voters, telling them they can't go to university is probably not going to help.
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stuartarnell.bsky.social
There is only one reason to name judges.

To scare them into a different behaviour.
karenroberts.bsky.social
This bit is ridiculous. Admits graduates do on average earn more than non-graduates but then goes off on a wierd rant abt universities "degrading" students!
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timbale.bsky.social
She's nothing if not predictable, is she? I know the Tories aren't keen on anything Green these days, but pretty much all they've done this week is recycle stuff they've been banging on about--for the most part fruitlessly--for the last decade and a half. And today it's "Mickey Mouse" degrees. 🙄
Badenoch: Curb students taking 'rip-off' degrees such as English
The performing arts, sociology and anthropology are among the subjects the Conservatives would like to cut
inews.co.uk
karenroberts.bsky.social
More Trumpian tactics from Reform politicians. This time harassing a primary school headteacher.
reformexposed.bsky.social
Reform leader Ryan Coogan's 'false' Astrea principal claims

Cambridgeshire and Peterborough branch of Reform, has made "false, malicious and defamatory" claims that a school's principal is leaving amidst misconduct allegations.

www.huntspost.co.uk/news/2552458...
School trust responds to Reform leader's 'malicious and defamatory' allegations
Reform Cambridgeshire and Peterborough leader Ryan Coogan' has made "false, malicious and defamatory" allegations against the outgoing…
www.huntspost.co.uk
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brynleyheaven.bsky.social
Here on Google Maps - highlighted in outline so you can see what is involved. Some credit to Bangladesh and to India their boundary was redrawn by mainly peaceful means, although it did take 40 years to seal the deal
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brynleyheaven.bsky.social
Street View, an amazing resource. India-Bangladesh border where a leased strip of land provides access to the sole surviving extraterritorial enclave - there used to be loads which were finally abolished 2015/6 - note the de facto border gear on BOTH sides of the ornamental road ...
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sirmichaeltake.bsky.social
“…And finally in conclusoin,
Let us knot forget:
When Labour negotiates Britian loses.”
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karenroberts.bsky.social
British and non-British ppl integrating doesn't count if the Brits aren't white. If that's not racism, I don't know what is.
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rolandmcs.bsky.social
'Don't call me racist', says racist.
newsagents.bsky.social
"He invokes white faces. He is the one who chooses this as his metric."

Robert Jenrick defended his comment about not seeing "another white face" in a Birmingham area, saying he was only criticising the lack of integration, not focusing on skin colour
'Jenrick's 'white faces' comment would have once been enough to get an MP sacked' | The News Agents
Robert Jenrick has defended comments made in March 2025 about the lack of white people in an area of Birmingham he visited – and Tory colleagues have rallied to back him. But do his comments make…
www.thenewsagents.co.uk
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Starmers hoping to announce a significant number of new jobs created in the UK (though visas for talented workers are a key ask of business)

He told the delegation this morning he wanted to hear an example each of a deal landed on the trip on the flight back

www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer insists India trade deal will not affect UK visas as he heads to Mumbai
British PM likely to face questions over closeness of Narendra Modi to Vladimir Putin during two-day India visit
www.theguardian.com
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jessicaelgot.bsky.social
Hello from Mumbai where Keir Starmer is meeting India’s prime minister Modi tomorrow with a huge business and culture delegation.

This is the road from the airport - imagine around 1000 of each of these signs along the entire motorway into town
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mrjamesob.bsky.social
Lords Heseltine & Kinnock seem more alive to these self-evident truths than most members of the Commons. Similarly, I find thinkers with direct lived experience of far right dictatorship, Greeks of a certain age for example, crystal clear about what’s happening now.
bbcnewsnight.bsky.social
“You described Reform and other parties across Europe today as among the 'right wing equivalents of the fascists in the 1930s'. Why?”

“Because that’s what they are”

@vicderbyshire.bsky.social asks Lord Heseltine about remarks he made at Conservative Party Conference.

#Newsnight
karenroberts.bsky.social
Incredibly dangerous to name judges like this! Does he want them to be targetted by far right thugs like in the US?!
paullewismoney.bsky.social
Top Tory names judges he would sack for bias bit.ly/3KE7cBY some have allowed immigrants to stay in the UK for reasons Robert Jenrick disapproves of. He wants Ministers to appoint (and sack) judges. But top judge Sumption warns this could lead to an authoritarian state
Robert Jenrick names judges he would sack for ‘pro-migrant bias’
The shadow justice secretary has accused ‘activists’ within the judiciary of having links to political causes that compromise their independence
bit.ly
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jdportes.bsky.social
Wilful ignorance of how trade and migration actually work in a globalised economy.

The idea that the (short and long-term) movement of people -especially between India and the UK - has nothing to do with trade and investment is (obviously) wrong.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...