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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 19h

I'm genuinely interested in what might happen to the UK if fewer people were spending large proportions of their earnings on a place to live and were able to study and learn in way that wasn't limited by their income. A place to call home and something to be getting on with as a policy

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised that in the UK we could just give everyone in the country a bicycle and a smartphone if we wanted to. Just one day, everyone gets a smartphone and a bicycle. No questions asked, here's your bike and your phone.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 19h

I keep thinking how much richer the UK would be if everyone had a council flat or council house and everyone who fancied it could go to university.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21h

People are allowed to have interests and allowed to have intellectual grounding in things. What you learn shapes what you are later interested in, broadens your choices of who and what to be. It's fun to have intellectual passions that run parallel to what you do for money,that underpin your self

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21h

What if, just hear me out now, education is part of a path to following your passions and if you have a craft, a skill, a passion, a curiosity then it is something in your life that enriches it until you die, offsetting the changing drudgery of putting food on the table and a roof over your head?

Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 21h

Badenoch and Co see education only as a means to a massive income in some soul destroying career.

Devoid of imagination and the power of knowledge they view life entirely through the prism of the CV.

My advice always is to study what interests you and the rest will follow

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21h

I notice you rarely see press releases saying 'majority think this particular thing needs to be fixed', you always get stuff about a range of issues people are interested in or concerned about. Crowing Britain is broken gets us nowhere because it disguises specific reasons people are fed up

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21h

Stuff like this infuriates me. It's very easy to go all excitable 'everyone thinks Britain is broken!' but it means precisely fuck all. Ask people to agree with a statement absolutely anyone can agree with based on their own interpretation and you get agreement

liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/396...

Britain is broken, two thirds of voters say – in blow for Starmer

Most voters of all parties from Reform UK to the Green Party and Labour agree that Britain is broken, a new poll by JL Partners reveals

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21h

I mean, yer young voters *are* the children that were at threat of having their futures stolen by failure to cut the deficit in 2010 in that justification. Ask them how they feel about their futures

Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 21h

Absolute state of the Conservative Party wanging on about public spending and not reducing the deficit stealing the future from our children and grandchildren. There a children old enough to have children alive now from the last time this was trotted out. Ask them how it's going

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 22h

That's a tune and also a fantastic b side, that

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

It was in fact David Blunkett

Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

That our head of history had chased education secretary Kenneth Baker into a cupboard. I think it might have actually been Gillian Shepherd, and not into a cupboard. They asked we didn't talk to any reporters if they came sniffing around at break and maintained they had to check their car for bombs

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 1d

Just realised that in the UK we could just give everyone in the country a bicycle and a smartphone if we wanted to. Just one day, everyone gets a smartphone and a bicycle. No questions asked, here's your bike and your phone.

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A Whole Damn Town! @im.a.whole.damn.town · 1d

Twin Peaks: A girl running and screaming, Twin Peaks High School.

A girl running and screaming, Twin Peaks High School. Twin Peaks S01E01 - Northwest Passage.

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Sam Whyte @samwhyte.bsky.social · 1d

Victor meldrew looking at a yukka plant planted in the downstairs toilet bowl.

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Matt Steinglass @mattsteinglass.bsky.social · 2d

The detective movie lets men indulge their deep fantasies of being a middle aged loser wandering through life trying to figure out the basics of what is happening around them

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Worth your time, this

Paul Belcher FRCP MFPH Hon 🇪🇺🇬🇧 @pauljbelcher.bsky.social · 2d

📝 Editorial - The #FarRight and health: an evolving political crisis

“This developing political crisis is having a pervasive and devastating impact on the health and wellbeing of health workers and scientists, as well as the general population.”

@thelancet.com

www.thelancet.com/journals/lan...

The far-right and health: an evolving political crisis

Across Europe and North America, racism, xenophobia, and far-right nationalism have become normalised in public and political discourse, leading many people to feel anxiety and fear of violence, discr...

www.thelancet.com

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Why does that matter Mr Jenrick? There's as many of us notice when everyone is white.

The Guardian @theguardian.com · 2d

Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham

Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in. After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...

www.theguardian.com

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

I genuinely don't know what they think they're conserving. I'm not sure they know, either. There's no path back while they are just bollocking about trying to become Trump-y rather than examining why and how all of their big, bug ideas got smashed by their absolutely ridiculous ones since 2010.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

What I only partially understand is the current Tory Party's thirst for shitting all over their greatest achievements. It's a party with a storied history and now it's just jumping about acting the goat like an edgy twitch streamer streaming Bridge rather than Minecraft while shouting for clout.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Well, the brexit era has done wonders for the intellectual quality of the modern Tory Party. When parties are in power for ages, there is no chance to renew and the only people left after the loss of power are just the ones who have evolved in that structure, like the ecosystem of an isolated island

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

There's miles of difference between equity and domination.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

Ah but Mark, what about people who hate landlords or oligarchs or want to cancel people? Surely that's violence too? Well, I don't really see an equivilence between 'I think folks should have the right to settle here' and 'I think we should sink boats full of people in the sea'.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

I get the feeling that just having nationalised healthcare and public transport access to reproductive health services would count as being a radical in some US discourse. The US in aggregate has done an amazing job of normalising bigotry than whinging that other people don't like bigots.

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Mark Brown @markoneinfour.bsky.social · 2d

And radicalisation is in the eye of the beholder, isn't it? I'm British, English specifically. Here, saying you're not into religion and don't mean trans people harm isn't particularly radical in the grand scheme of things. In the US, not eating meat is grounds for a family intervention for some

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