Vic Mills
@vicrmills.bsky.social
Playwright, Actor, Artistic Director of The Liverpool International Theatre Festival and Director of Contemporancient Theatre CIC
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For his week's @newstatesman.com podcast review, I listened to The Trapped from ITV's @danielhewittitv.bsky.social. It's about the scandal in social housing, and listening made me feel sick.
Incredible reporting that will fill you with rage and disgust
www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
Incredible reporting that will fill you with rage and disgust
www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
The Trapped: inside Britain’s social housing scandal
This eight-part series reveals the council homes unfit for human habitation – in horrifying detail.
www.newstatesman.com
November 26, 2024 at 3:32 PM
For his week's @newstatesman.com podcast review, I listened to The Trapped from ITV's @danielhewittitv.bsky.social. It's about the scandal in social housing, and listening made me feel sick.
Incredible reporting that will fill you with rage and disgust
www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
Incredible reporting that will fill you with rage and disgust
www.newstatesman.com/culture/radi...
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"It's a disaster for your health, future jobs prospects and earning potential... We won't let that happen to young people.”
Liz Kendall has unveiled a major package of welfare reforms to tackle soaring rates of unemployment, but will her plan work?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
Liz Kendall has unveiled a major package of welfare reforms to tackle soaring rates of unemployment, but will her plan work?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
'It's brutal if you don't have skills': Can Labour get Britain back to work?
With more than 1.5 million people in Britain unemployed and 2.8 million out of work due to long-term sickness, will Labour really be able to “Get Britain working again”?
articles.globalplayer.com
November 26, 2024 at 5:05 PM
"It's a disaster for your health, future jobs prospects and earning potential... We won't let that happen to young people.”
Liz Kendall has unveiled a major package of welfare reforms to tackle soaring rates of unemployment, but will her plan work?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
Liz Kendall has unveiled a major package of welfare reforms to tackle soaring rates of unemployment, but will her plan work?
@maitlis.bsky.social | @jonsopel1.bsky.social
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Hi from Oslo. Nice to meet up with Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Store. Like most incumbents facing tough poll numbers right now. But he is one of the smartest left of centre leaders. If anyone can turn it around he can.
November 26, 2024 at 7:56 AM
Hi from Oslo. Nice to meet up with Norwegian PM Jonas Gahr Store. Like most incumbents facing tough poll numbers right now. But he is one of the smartest left of centre leaders. If anyone can turn it around he can.
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“Too much of the discussion draws on religion. This cannot be just. Imposing religious doctrine on a largely secular country is archaic.”
It’s outrageous that religious faith is being brought into the assisted dying debate | Simon Jenkins
It’s outrageous that religious faith is being brought into the assisted dying debate | Simon Jenkins
Britain is a largely secular country. Those who oppose the bill before parliament should not be interfering with other people’s right to choose for themselves
I recently attended memorial services for two friends. Both died after long illnesses, and the…
www.theguardian.com
November 26, 2024 at 4:56 AM
“Too much of the discussion draws on religion. This cannot be just. Imposing religious doctrine on a largely secular country is archaic.”
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Two thirds of the countryback assisted dying
www.thetimes.com/article/97d2...
www.thetimes.com/article/97d2...
Two thirds of country back assisted dying
Largest study yet reveals attitudes just days before historic vote, but justice secretary brands bill a ‘state death service’
www.thetimes.com
November 24, 2024 at 8:31 AM
Two thirds of the countryback assisted dying
www.thetimes.com/article/97d2...
www.thetimes.com/article/97d2...
I don’t know what the answers are for steep valleys with narrow valley floors and overflowing streams and rivers unless it’s water capture schemes on the hills.
Right now, it’s heartbreaking for so many.
Right now, it’s heartbreaking for so many.
November 26, 2024 at 6:34 AM
I don’t know what the answers are for steep valleys with narrow valley floors and overflowing streams and rivers unless it’s water capture schemes on the hills.
Right now, it’s heartbreaking for so many.
Right now, it’s heartbreaking for so many.
Thoughts with all the folk whose homes and businesses have been wrecked last night and today by flooding, many of whom haven’t got insurance because of the floods four years ago.
November 26, 2024 at 6:33 AM
Thoughts with all the folk whose homes and businesses have been wrecked last night and today by flooding, many of whom haven’t got insurance because of the floods four years ago.
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Scares me constantly, some of the most dangerous tips are around us in RCT and every year, rainfall gets worse.
And yet we get pennies to fix our tips!
And yet we get pennies to fix our tips!
November 24, 2024 at 1:55 PM
Scares me constantly, some of the most dangerous tips are around us in RCT and every year, rainfall gets worse.
And yet we get pennies to fix our tips!
And yet we get pennies to fix our tips!
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⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
Storyville Books Bookshop UK
Nestled in the rolling hills of the South Wales valleys, we are the only independent bookshop in Pontypridd, selling new books and more.
uk.bookshop.org
November 24, 2024 at 6:41 PM
⚠️ Pontypridd has been hit by devastating floods and our wonderful independent bookshop, Storyville Books, has seen much of its stock destroyed.
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
If you’re able to buy a book from them, this would go such a long way to help support them rebuild in the aftermath.
👉 uk.bookshop.org/shop/Storyvi...
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I never miss it. Best news digest anywhere. Brilliant interviews. Thank you for your fearless journalism. We need it more than ever!
November 24, 2024 at 12:54 PM
I never miss it. Best news digest anywhere. Brilliant interviews. Thank you for your fearless journalism. We need it more than ever!
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A very thoughtful interview with the wonderful Kim Leadbetter. @lewisgoodall.com put it so eloquently, and I agree - whatever your political views & your own thoughts about assisted dying, we need more people like Kim in politics - compassionate, listening, balanced. Thank you Lewis & co.
Listen to today's full episode: Kim Leadbeater on assisted dying, fractious politics and Jo Cox
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
www.globalplayer.com/podcasts/epi...
The News Agents - Podcast | Global Player
<p>Next week, MPs will get their first opportunity in almost a decade to vote on extending the choices available to terminally ill people at the end of their lives. A contentious subject, The Assisted...
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November 22, 2024 at 8:46 PM
A very thoughtful interview with the wonderful Kim Leadbetter. @lewisgoodall.com put it so eloquently, and I agree - whatever your political views & your own thoughts about assisted dying, we need more people like Kim in politics - compassionate, listening, balanced. Thank you Lewis & co.
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This is well worth a listen. Intelligent, thought-provoking discussion by @lewisgoodall.com and Kim Leadbeater on the assisted dying bill. So refreshing to hear things respectfully debated and not reduced to binary soundbites.
#news #newssky
#news #newssky
NEW: Weekend News Agents.
Would recommend anyone thinking hard about the assisted dying bill to listen to this one. Kim Leadbeater on her legislation, why she thinks the time is now and the legacy of her sister’s tragic murder.
Listen now.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Would recommend anyone thinking hard about the assisted dying bill to listen to this one. Kim Leadbeater on her legislation, why she thinks the time is now and the legacy of her sister’s tragic murder.
Listen now.
podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...
Kim Leadbeater on assisted dying, fractious politics and Jo Cox
Podcast Episode · The News Agents · 22/11/2024 · 41m
podcasts.apple.com
November 24, 2024 at 1:44 PM
This is well worth a listen. Intelligent, thought-provoking discussion by @lewisgoodall.com and Kim Leadbeater on the assisted dying bill. So refreshing to hear things respectfully debated and not reduced to binary soundbites.
#news #newssky
#news #newssky
Good away point for the Bluebirds against Wednesday today!
November 23, 2024 at 2:29 PM
Good away point for the Bluebirds against Wednesday today!
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Starmer responds to Badenoch's attack on new net zero targets: "I think the fact that she has now taken the position she has of attacking the very idea of setting targets shows just how far the party opposite has fallen."
November 21, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Starmer responds to Badenoch's attack on new net zero targets: "I think the fact that she has now taken the position she has of attacking the very idea of setting targets shows just how far the party opposite has fallen."
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This week's cover: Combat Zone
How the Trump-Putin relationship will decide the Ukraine war
Also, David Lammy: Why Putin must fail for the international order to survive
How the Trump-Putin relationship will decide the Ukraine war
Also, David Lammy: Why Putin must fail for the international order to survive
November 20, 2024 at 10:20 AM
This week's cover: Combat Zone
How the Trump-Putin relationship will decide the Ukraine war
Also, David Lammy: Why Putin must fail for the international order to survive
How the Trump-Putin relationship will decide the Ukraine war
Also, David Lammy: Why Putin must fail for the international order to survive
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John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
November 21, 2024 at 9:31 AM
John Prescott was a politician both behind and ahead of his time. Considered too bluff and old Labour to reach to the very top in the 90s, today his authenticity and class credentials would have been perfect to fight Farage and populism. Labour needs more like him.
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Coming to any photo opportunity at any time you’ll have ‘em
The new Tory B*llox Band
From left to right
Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps
Claim Anything I Can McVey
How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins
And band leader …
KemiKaze BadEnough
The new Tory B*llox Band
From left to right
Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps
Claim Anything I Can McVey
How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins
And band leader …
KemiKaze BadEnough
November 19, 2024 at 8:15 PM
Coming to any photo opportunity at any time you’ll have ‘em
The new Tory B*llox Band
From left to right
Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps
Claim Anything I Can McVey
How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins
And band leader …
KemiKaze BadEnough
The new Tory B*llox Band
From left to right
Close my Companies while they owe HMRC Philps
Claim Anything I Can McVey
How Did I End Up As A Minister Atkins
And band leader …
KemiKaze BadEnough
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And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
November 19, 2024 at 4:51 PM
And THAT is exactly how people with a huge sense of entitlement regularly behave when they get caught out.
#JeremyClarkson
#JeremyClarkson
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It’s happening
November 19, 2024 at 2:20 PM
It’s happening
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Our overdiagnosis crisis
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
By Rachel Kelly
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
By Rachel Kelly
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Our overdiagnosis crisis
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
www.newstatesman.com
November 19, 2024 at 1:33 PM
Our overdiagnosis crisis
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
By Rachel Kelly
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
Amid a sharp rise in mental health conditions, critics say we have started to pathologise “ordinary human unhappiness”.
By Rachel Kelly
www.newstatesman.com/politics/hea...
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“Many are seeking to create a persecution complex.”
The News Agents explore a narrative from the right that we are becoming a “police state.”
The News Agents explore a narrative from the right that we are becoming a “police state.”
November 19, 2024 at 12:12 PM
“Many are seeking to create a persecution complex.”
The News Agents explore a narrative from the right that we are becoming a “police state.”
The News Agents explore a narrative from the right that we are becoming a “police state.”
So, here I am on Bluesky, looking for a hate-free space to share ideas, experiences - profound, troubling, joyous and even mundane. Good to note that a few mates are joining, too!
Mr Blue Sky is living here today!!
Mr Blue Sky is living here today!!
November 19, 2024 at 9:50 AM
So, here I am on Bluesky, looking for a hate-free space to share ideas, experiences - profound, troubling, joyous and even mundane. Good to note that a few mates are joining, too!
Mr Blue Sky is living here today!!
Mr Blue Sky is living here today!!