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"Without ensuring that our social security system properly protects people from poverty, the government runs the risk of allowing its promise to ‘Get Britain Working’ to become empty rhetoric"
Read our full op-ed in the @bigissue.com 👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/get-...
Read our full op-ed in the @bigissue.com 👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/get-...
'Get Britain Working' is empty rhetoric without DWP benefit reforms
Anela Anwar, chief executive of anti-poverty charity Z2K, reacts to the government’s ‘Get Britain Working’ white paper.
www.bigissue.com
November 27, 2024 at 9:09 AM
"Without ensuring that our social security system properly protects people from poverty, the government runs the risk of allowing its promise to ‘Get Britain Working’ to become empty rhetoric"
Read our full op-ed in the @bigissue.com 👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/get-...
Read our full op-ed in the @bigissue.com 👇
www.bigissue.com/opinion/get-...
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"In the past 14 years, funding for the arts has been drastically cut in real terms at both national and local levels."
Danielle Child examines the key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Danielle Child examines the key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
The state of the arts - Red Pepper
Key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government, austerity programmes, Brexit and a global pandemic
www.redpepper.org.uk
November 20, 2024 at 2:31 AM
"In the past 14 years, funding for the arts has been drastically cut in real terms at both national and local levels."
Danielle Child examines the key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Danielle Child examines the key issues facing the arts under Labour, following 14 years of Conservative government
www.redpepper.org.uk/culture-medi...
Large parts of adult social care in England face collapse, thinktank says.
The budget blamed but there are other factors.
Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010.
Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.
End Privatisation
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
The budget blamed but there are other factors.
Massive real cut in local govt funding since 2010.
Privatisation: 30%-40% of money vanishes in profits. Money buys less.
End Privatisation
www.theguardian.com/society/2024...
Large parts of adult social care market in England face collapse, thinktank warns
Sector will have extra £2.8bn cost burden from April due to tax and wage rises announced in budget, says Nuffield Trust
www.theguardian.com
November 23, 2024 at 5:35 PM
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The French city of Grenoble is doing pioneering work in putting Doughnut Economics into practice as a municipality. And they've just shared it in a fab report, in French & English. If you are in need of some inspiration (anyone?) I promise you a good dose here.... www.calameo.com/books/004190...
November 23, 2024 at 12:15 PM
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Keir Starmers BlackRock Britain.
"BlackRock is highlighting Labour’s entire political project rests on the willingness of companies like BlackRock to plough private capital into the foundational components of our society (and extracting massive profits in the process)."
Really important piece. 👇🏼
"BlackRock is highlighting Labour’s entire political project rests on the willingness of companies like BlackRock to plough private capital into the foundational components of our society (and extracting massive profits in the process)."
Really important piece. 👇🏼
“Dear Secretary of State on behalf of all of us here at BlackRock, please find attached a formal letter of congratulations from myself and our UK Chair, Sandra Boss. And may I add, on a personal note, it is a pleasure after all these years to address you as such!”
open.substack.com/pub/thedarka...
open.substack.com/pub/thedarka...
The BlackRock letters: inside Labour's 'close partnership'
The business secretary told the head of a major global investment banker that he looked forward to working together to “change the face of our United Kingdom"
open.substack.com
November 22, 2024 at 2:07 PM
Keir Starmers BlackRock Britain.
"BlackRock is highlighting Labour’s entire political project rests on the willingness of companies like BlackRock to plough private capital into the foundational components of our society (and extracting massive profits in the process)."
Really important piece. 👇🏼
"BlackRock is highlighting Labour’s entire political project rests on the willingness of companies like BlackRock to plough private capital into the foundational components of our society (and extracting massive profits in the process)."
Really important piece. 👇🏼
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Profit and child social care DO NOT mix - and nor will Labour's latest 'reforms'
Ending profiteering in child social care is a start - but as with everything Labour is doing, it's more neoliberal edge-tinkering
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Ending profiteering in child social care is a start - but as with everything Labour is doing, it's more neoliberal edge-tinkering
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Profit and child social care DO NOT mix - and nor will Labour's latest 'reforms'
Ending profiteering in child social care is a start - but as with everything Labour is doing, it's more neoliberal edge-tinkering
www.thecanary.co
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Profit and child social care DO NOT mix - and nor will Labour's latest 'reforms'
Ending profiteering in child social care is a start - but as with everything Labour is doing, it's more neoliberal edge-tinkering
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Ending profiteering in child social care is a start - but as with everything Labour is doing, it's more neoliberal edge-tinkering
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Mainstream media ignores UN report laying out litany of Israel's war crimes
The UN Special Committee report lays out Israel's use of collective punishment, AI death tech, purposeful starvation, & media censorship - yet only Arab media has reported on it.
How odd.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The UN Special Committee report lays out Israel's use of collective punishment, AI death tech, purposeful starvation, & media censorship - yet only Arab media has reported on it.
How odd.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
Mainstream media ignores UN report that lays out litany of Israel's war crimes
The UN Special Committee report lays out Israel's use of collective punishment, AI death tech, purposeful starvation, and media censorship
www.thecanary.co
November 19, 2024 at 9:15 PM
Mainstream media ignores UN report laying out litany of Israel's war crimes
The UN Special Committee report lays out Israel's use of collective punishment, AI death tech, purposeful starvation, & media censorship - yet only Arab media has reported on it.
How odd.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
The UN Special Committee report lays out Israel's use of collective punishment, AI death tech, purposeful starvation, & media censorship - yet only Arab media has reported on it.
How odd.
www.thecanary.co/global/world...
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Going to celebrate joining by sharing my new video, "After We're Gone" with nobody in particular! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzs...
Ian Williams - After We're Gone
YouTube video by Slaughterback Films
www.youtube.com
November 6, 2024 at 9:32 PM
Going to celebrate joining by sharing my new video, "After We're Gone" with nobody in particular! www.youtube.com/watch?v=ltzs...
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Here's another clue to the exotic location, in one of the slowest videos ever made... www.youtube.com/watch?v=53d8...
Ian Williams - Sahara
YouTube video by Slaughterback Films
www.youtube.com
November 10, 2024 at 1:53 PM
Here's another clue to the exotic location, in one of the slowest videos ever made... www.youtube.com/watch?v=53d8...
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A new UN report finds that the policies and practices of Israel are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide".
There is no excuse for saying you did not know.
This is genocide in plain sight.
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
There is no excuse for saying you did not know.
This is genocide in plain sight.
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
A/79/363: Report of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of the Occupied Territories
SummaryThe present report contains information regarding the efforts of the Special Committee to Investigate Israeli Practices Affecting the Human Rights of the Palestinian People and Other Arabs of t...
www.ohchr.org
November 15, 2024 at 1:17 PM
A new UN report finds that the policies and practices of Israel are "consistent with the characteristics of genocide".
There is no excuse for saying you did not know.
This is genocide in plain sight.
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...
There is no excuse for saying you did not know.
This is genocide in plain sight.
www.ohchr.org/en/documents...