Tim S.
@timatopotown.bsky.social
As Shakespeare says, ‘all the world’s a stage.’ So here I am, among the cast, to play my part. ✝️
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'You've got to treat children equally… You don't tell a child who's the third child, you're gonna have half the time at school. You don't tell them that the fourth child is going to have a third of the time.'
- Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.
- Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.
November 10, 2025 at 9:27 AM
'You've got to treat children equally… You don't tell a child who's the third child, you're gonna have half the time at school. You don't tell them that the fourth child is going to have a third of the time.'
- Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.
- Gordon Brown on scrapping the two-child limit for all kids.
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It’s just over two weeks now till the budget. Every night, parents in poverty are lying in bed, unable to sleep, worrying about how to pay essential bills. This can and must be changed. Ending the two-child limit & benefit cap is the right (indeed only) place to start m.youtube.com/watch?v=94fq...
Lying awake
YouTube video by Aaron Reeves
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November 10, 2025 at 9:18 AM
It’s just over two weeks now till the budget. Every night, parents in poverty are lying in bed, unable to sleep, worrying about how to pay essential bills. This can and must be changed. Ending the two-child limit & benefit cap is the right (indeed only) place to start m.youtube.com/watch?v=94fq...
‘Should we care about AI welfare?'
Really?!
Sounds like a pretty surreal question. But the fact it’s a question at all suggests something it should be considered, if not for AI, for ourselves.
I look forward to listening …
Really?!
Sounds like a pretty surreal question. But the fact it’s a question at all suggests something it should be considered, if not for AI, for ourselves.
I look forward to listening …
New video:
Should We Care About AI Welfare? 🤖💔
From medieval pig trials to Anthropic’s “model welfare” via Hobbes, Foucault, Augustine and Ricoeur.
An exploration of AI, ethics, imagination & love.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJU...
Should We Care About AI Welfare? 🤖💔
From medieval pig trials to Anthropic’s “model welfare” via Hobbes, Foucault, Augustine and Ricoeur.
An exploration of AI, ethics, imagination & love.
🎥 www.youtube.com/watch?v=UdJU...
Should We Care About AI Welfare?
YouTube video by Christopher Watkin
www.youtube.com
August 23, 2025 at 8:35 PM
‘Should we care about AI welfare?'
Really?!
Sounds like a pretty surreal question. But the fact it’s a question at all suggests something it should be considered, if not for AI, for ourselves.
I look forward to listening …
Really?!
Sounds like a pretty surreal question. But the fact it’s a question at all suggests something it should be considered, if not for AI, for ourselves.
I look forward to listening …
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Here's a fact for you all.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
August 19, 2025 at 9:04 AM
Here's a fact for you all.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
Prior to 2017 there was not a single documented case of any individual travelling by small boats across the English Channel to caim asylum in the UK.
Not ONE.
This current 'boats' crisis has been largely caused by Brexit.
But for some reason NOBODY is saying that.
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"It would always be better for people to be in a position where they have enough income to be able to pay for their essential costs."
Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, spoke to us about the impact of the rising cost of essentials on low-income households ⤵️
Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, spoke to us about the impact of the rising cost of essentials on low-income households ⤵️
August 21, 2025 at 9:15 AM
"It would always be better for people to be in a position where they have enough income to be able to pay for their essential costs."
Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, spoke to us about the impact of the rising cost of essentials on low-income households ⤵️
Dame Clare Moriarty, Chief Executive of Citizens Advice, spoke to us about the impact of the rising cost of essentials on low-income households ⤵️
‘All the individual stories point us to Jesus …’
Wonder at each one, in turn.
Wonder at each one, in turn.
#TimKeller #EdmundClowney
All the individual stories point us to Jesus, as we locate them in the history of redemption.
- Jesus is the true and better Adam who passed the temptation test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us (1 Cor 15).
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All the individual stories point us to Jesus, as we locate them in the history of redemption.
- Jesus is the true and better Adam who passed the temptation test in the garden and whose obedience is imputed to us (1 Cor 15).
1/n
August 22, 2025 at 8:18 PM
‘All the individual stories point us to Jesus …’
Wonder at each one, in turn.
Wonder at each one, in turn.
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An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA
August 18, 2025 at 8:24 AM
An important thread. What is Reform UK up to? ~AA
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Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.
August 11, 2025 at 4:05 PM
Imagine if "combating homelessness" meant housing people, not brutalizing and disappearing them.
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May the Lord awaken his church and rescue us from our self-centered self-preservation. May we know again fear and trembling before the God who "administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing." (Deuteronomy 10:18)
July 31, 2025 at 11:53 PM
May the Lord awaken his church and rescue us from our self-centered self-preservation. May we know again fear and trembling before the God who "administers justice for the fatherless and the widow, and loves the stranger, giving him food and clothing." (Deuteronomy 10:18)
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"Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible."
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1972)
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1972)
July 30, 2025 at 3:42 PM
"Morally speaking, there is no limit to the concern one must feel for the suffering of human beings, that indifference to evil is worse than evil itself, that in a free society, some are guilty, but all are responsible."
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1972)
- Rabbi Abraham Joshua Heschel (1972)
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If a change is unjust for current claimants, it is unjust for future claimants. This is not a concession, it is a delay of the pain. If the "rebels" actually hold a fair welfare system as a value then they will stand firm and refuse to back Starmer's austerity.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Starmer offers ‘massive concessions’ on welfare bill to Labour rebels
Exclusive: Leading rebels say they have been promised significant changes to planned cuts which could help bill avoid defeat
www.theguardian.com
June 27, 2025 at 6:25 AM
If a change is unjust for current claimants, it is unjust for future claimants. This is not a concession, it is a delay of the pain. If the "rebels" actually hold a fair welfare system as a value then they will stand firm and refuse to back Starmer's austerity.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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To paraphrase a former Labour leader.
(Courtesy of Richard Murphy)
(Courtesy of Richard Murphy)
June 27, 2025 at 6:32 AM
To paraphrase a former Labour leader.
(Courtesy of Richard Murphy)
(Courtesy of Richard Murphy)
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The fundamental problem with the welfare bill is that it's not about reform it's about cuts, and arbitrary ones at that. It's fundamentally irreconcilable with who Labour ought to be.
June 27, 2025 at 7:12 AM
The fundamental problem with the welfare bill is that it's not about reform it's about cuts, and arbitrary ones at that. It's fundamentally irreconcilable with who Labour ought to be.
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The concession made by the government are welcome but don’t go far enough
June 27, 2025 at 6:58 AM
The concession made by the government are welcome but don’t go far enough
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When I tell people how bad the disability benefit cuts will be, sometimes I encounter a bit of disbelief... "It surely can't be that bad?"
Check out @victoria-anns.bsky.social on the impact for 'Anita' - and believe it 👇
Check out @victoria-anns.bsky.social on the impact for 'Anita' - and believe it 👇
How will the proposed disability benefit cuts impact disabled people? Today we’re sharing the story of one of the people we’ve helped: Anita*.
The cuts could mean she loses over £8k per year (43% of her income)❗
New blog out now: medium.com/p/1ab8959922a1
The cuts could mean she loses over £8k per year (43% of her income)❗
New blog out now: medium.com/p/1ab8959922a1
Anita’s story
How cuts to disability benefits could impact millions
medium.com
June 26, 2025 at 11:16 AM
When I tell people how bad the disability benefit cuts will be, sometimes I encounter a bit of disbelief... "It surely can't be that bad?"
Check out @victoria-anns.bsky.social on the impact for 'Anita' - and believe it 👇
Check out @victoria-anns.bsky.social on the impact for 'Anita' - and believe it 👇
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What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
For most media the audience aren't the customers: they are the product that is delivered to the customers.
For most media the audience aren't the customers: they are the product that is delivered to the customers.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.
We’re really not clear on what religion IS. At all.
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
Unless you seek it out, most professors don't learn how to teach. It's not part of the job requirements. The idea is that you're an expert in your field and that's Enough.
June 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
What is common knowledge in your field, but shocks outsiders?
For most media the audience aren't the customers: they are the product that is delivered to the customers.
For most media the audience aren't the customers: they are the product that is delivered to the customers.
Email in from water supplier earlier reads:
“💧Let’s protect our most precious resource.”
I guess I’m expected to think they mean “water.” But the supplier is Thames Water, so my first thought was that it’d be “money”!
“💧Let’s protect our most precious resource.”
I guess I’m expected to think they mean “water.” But the supplier is Thames Water, so my first thought was that it’d be “money”!
June 13, 2025 at 8:29 PM
Email in from water supplier earlier reads:
“💧Let’s protect our most precious resource.”
I guess I’m expected to think they mean “water.” But the supplier is Thames Water, so my first thought was that it’d be “money”!
“💧Let’s protect our most precious resource.”
I guess I’m expected to think they mean “water.” But the supplier is Thames Water, so my first thought was that it’d be “money”!
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It is bracing to remember how easy it is for comfortable people to fall in with ruffians out of greed and how much it costs to overthrow a kleptocracy (which is always the doorway to a more harrowing evil) and rebuild—even when people wake up.
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May 25, 2025 at 4:31 PM
It is bracing to remember how easy it is for comfortable people to fall in with ruffians out of greed and how much it costs to overthrow a kleptocracy (which is always the doorway to a more harrowing evil) and rebuild—even when people wake up.
(2/4)
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🎥 from @hrw.org 's launch of the #GigTrap report - on algorithmic exploitation, worker misclassification + the urgent need for labor protections in the platform economy.
Thanks @deschuttero.bsky.social @nicoemoe.bsky.social @amostoh.bsky.social for speaking truth to power.
bsky.app/profile/hrw....
Thanks @deschuttero.bsky.social @nicoemoe.bsky.social @amostoh.bsky.social for speaking truth to power.
bsky.app/profile/hrw....
In a recent report, Human Rights Watch documented how major companies operating in the US are misclassifying gig workers as independent contractors.
Hear more from experts on "The Gig Trap" and labor rights ⤵️
Hear more from experts on "The Gig Trap" and labor rights ⤵️
May 27, 2025 at 7:56 PM
🎥 from @hrw.org 's launch of the #GigTrap report - on algorithmic exploitation, worker misclassification + the urgent need for labor protections in the platform economy.
Thanks @deschuttero.bsky.social @nicoemoe.bsky.social @amostoh.bsky.social for speaking truth to power.
bsky.app/profile/hrw....
Thanks @deschuttero.bsky.social @nicoemoe.bsky.social @amostoh.bsky.social for speaking truth to power.
bsky.app/profile/hrw....
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"Authoritarian efficiency is a myth; centralized power without accountability leads to failure."
www.journalofdemocra...
www.journalofdemocra...
Bolivia’s Silent Destruction | Journal of Democracy
Bolivia’s Amazon forests are becoming scorched earth, with millions of acres lost each year to raging fires. Worse, this disaster is being caused by a government more interested in corrupt profits…
www.journalofdemocracy.org
May 26, 2025 at 6:09 PM
"Authoritarian efficiency is a myth; centralized power without accountability leads to failure."
www.journalofdemocra...
www.journalofdemocra...
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I'm remembering how people I knew in suburban Connecticut thought of SUVs: a way of protecting themselves in the case of a crash. That they themselves were driving something dangerous to others wasn't part of the equation. A solution? Frequent, affordable, reliable public transport would be a start.
May 24, 2025 at 6:25 AM
I'm remembering how people I knew in suburban Connecticut thought of SUVs: a way of protecting themselves in the case of a crash. That they themselves were driving something dangerous to others wasn't part of the equation. A solution? Frequent, affordable, reliable public transport would be a start.
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May 23, 2025 at 8:08 PM
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My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
The prime minister warns that immigration could turn Britain into an ‘island of strangers’. Author and poet Michael Rosen responds
www.theguardian.com
May 17, 2025 at 6:24 AM
My island of strangers: a poem | Michael Rosen
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Vulnerability at any time, in any person, demands protection. Our response to vulnerable humans exposes who we are.
May 6, 2025 at 1:01 PM
Vulnerability at any time, in any person, demands protection. Our response to vulnerable humans exposes who we are.