Craig Nelson
@craigne.bsky.social
Interested in politics, religion, philosophy (especially German Idealism).
Politics mainly centre Left, Social Democrat. Labour Party member.
Posting from 🇬🇧 UK.
Politics mainly centre Left, Social Democrat. Labour Party member.
Posting from 🇬🇧 UK.
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Trump’s funding cuts to international efforts to end the global threats of malaria, TB and HIV, will result in millions of preventable deaths.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
When Trump’s aid cuts robbed them of HIV drugs, these people died
Special Report: Three people have died at just one community centre on the outskirts of Senegal’s capital, Dakar, following US aid cuts to HIV care. Rachel Schraer meets the women fighting to stop mor...
www.independent.co.uk
November 10, 2025 at 10:49 AM
Trump’s funding cuts to international efforts to end the global threats of malaria, TB and HIV, will result in millions of preventable deaths.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
Each death is someone’s son or daughter, husband, wife, parent or friend.
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#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
November 9, 2025 at 2:24 AM
#GVerse Um. WTF???
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
Transportation Secretary Sean Duffy: "Pilots need to stop depending on air traffic controllers. They need to suck it up and go with their gut feelings."
This is the stupidest and most dangerous administration in history.
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I've been talking about this on here for a while. We just assume it will always rain enough, so the management of water in the UK is totally disastrous. Now, after a relatively few dry months, we are approaching a calamity. We have done it to ourselves. Yet again. We are a deeply unserious country.
England facing drastic measures due to extreme drought next year
Government and water companies are devising emergency plans for worst water shortage in decades
www.theguardian.com
November 8, 2025 at 7:02 PM
I've been talking about this on here for a while. We just assume it will always rain enough, so the management of water in the UK is totally disastrous. Now, after a relatively few dry months, we are approaching a calamity. We have done it to ourselves. Yet again. We are a deeply unserious country.
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Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx
Sign the Petition
Stop the removal of Modern Languages courses at the University of Nottingham!
c.org
November 7, 2025 at 9:37 PM
Please consider signing against this nonsensical absurdity! c.org/vGgNqmXhNx
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Did you know that our Labour government are delivering the biggest boost to social housing in a generation?
£39bn investment committed so far.
Isn't that what you all wanted to see?
It's the difference a Labour government makes!
£39bn investment committed so far.
Isn't that what you all wanted to see?
It's the difference a Labour government makes!
November 7, 2025 at 6:42 PM
Did you know that our Labour government are delivering the biggest boost to social housing in a generation?
£39bn investment committed so far.
Isn't that what you all wanted to see?
It's the difference a Labour government makes!
£39bn investment committed so far.
Isn't that what you all wanted to see?
It's the difference a Labour government makes!
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Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
November 7, 2025 at 12:25 AM
Remember the time Obama personally caught a fainting woman during his speech — rather than just blankly staring like a sociopath?
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
Character isn't something you tell people about.
It's something you live.
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Chicago’s Pope Leo XIV calls on US authorities to respect migrants' spiritual needs.
"He cited Matthew 25, recalling Jesus' admonition that, at the final judgment, people will be asked how they treated ‘the foreigner’ — whether they welcomed him or not.”
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
"He cited Matthew 25, recalling Jesus' admonition that, at the final judgment, people will be asked how they treated ‘the foreigner’ — whether they welcomed him or not.”
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
Pope Leo calls on US authorities to respect migrants' spiritual needs
Pope Leo XIV appealed for greater consideration for the "spiritual rights" of migrants in the United States, saying church ministers should be allowed to provide pastoral care to detained people.
www.ncronline.org
November 5, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Chicago’s Pope Leo XIV calls on US authorities to respect migrants' spiritual needs.
"He cited Matthew 25, recalling Jesus' admonition that, at the final judgment, people will be asked how they treated ‘the foreigner’ — whether they welcomed him or not.”
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
"He cited Matthew 25, recalling Jesus' admonition that, at the final judgment, people will be asked how they treated ‘the foreigner’ — whether they welcomed him or not.”
www.ncronline.org/vatican/vati...
This is pretty shocking and definitely part of a worrying trend. This University has a very long history of language learning and study.
I am hearing that @uniofnottingham.bsky.social is suspending (i.e shutting down) *all modern language courses* in 2026-27. One of the largest departments in the UK. A shocking short sighted move that damages regional and national prospects @britishacademy.bsky.social @hetanshah.bsky.social
November 6, 2025 at 8:26 PM
This is pretty shocking and definitely part of a worrying trend. This University has a very long history of language learning and study.
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Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
Elon Musk is boosting the British right - and this shows how
news.sky.com
November 6, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Vital piece of investigative reporting from Sky. They've uncovered the X algorithm which feeds users extremist right wing material from the moment they join the site. It is a far-right radicalisation engine, by design.
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
news.sky.com/story/the-x-...
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BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
November 5, 2025 at 2:55 PM
BBC News bulletins leading on the story of an Algerian man being mistakenly released by the prison service.
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
Funnily enough I don't remember these cases ever leading the bulletins when an average of ten prisoners were mistakenly released a month in the final year of the last Government
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Super important. Thank you
NEW: Children faced more risk of rare heart problems after Covid-19 infection than they did after taking the Pfizer/BioNTech mRNA vaccine, a big three-year study of under-18s in England has found.
Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
www.ft.com/content/231d...
Important evidence for debates over vaccine safety, particularly in the US.
www.ft.com/content/231d...
Covid jab less likely than virus to cause rare heart issue in children
Largest study of its kind shows health risks of refusing vaccination
www.ft.com
November 5, 2025 at 9:58 AM
Super important. Thank you
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Pope was asked about migrants detained in Chicago not being able to receive communion: "I would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to their needs many times they have been separated from their families for a good amount of time, no one knows what’s happening.”
November 4, 2025 at 9:41 PM
Pope was asked about migrants detained in Chicago not being able to receive communion: "I would certainly invite the authorities to allow pastoral workers to attend to their needs many times they have been separated from their families for a good amount of time, no one knows what’s happening.”
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A train driver managed to get his train onto a slow line and stopped at a station to facilitate speedy law enforcement.
A train guard put his life on the line to protect the passengers.
Remember that next time they talk about rail workers' wages or rubbish like driverless trains with no guards.
A train guard put his life on the line to protect the passengers.
Remember that next time they talk about rail workers' wages or rubbish like driverless trains with no guards.
November 4, 2025 at 12:39 PM
A train driver managed to get his train onto a slow line and stopped at a station to facilitate speedy law enforcement.
A train guard put his life on the line to protect the passengers.
Remember that next time they talk about rail workers' wages or rubbish like driverless trains with no guards.
A train guard put his life on the line to protect the passengers.
Remember that next time they talk about rail workers' wages or rubbish like driverless trains with no guards.
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Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
November 5, 2025 at 2:47 AM
Congratulations to all the Democratic candidates who won tonight. It’s a reminder that when we come together around strong, forward-looking leaders who care about the issues that matter, we can win. We’ve still got plenty of work to do, but the future looks a little bit brighter.
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Pope Leo at Cemetery Mass on All Souls Day: Praying for the dead “is not so much about looking back, but instead looking forward towards the goal of our journey, towards the safe harbor that God has promised us, towards the unending feast that awaits us.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
November 2, 2025 at 4:10 PM
Pope Leo at Cemetery Mass on All Souls Day: Praying for the dead “is not so much about looking back, but instead looking forward towards the goal of our journey, towards the safe harbor that God has promised us, towards the unending feast that awaits us.” www.vatican.va/content/leo-...
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You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story
Next time someone tells you that train drivers "just push buttons" show them this from the BBC
November 2, 2025 at 7:11 PM
You know what - it would be really life affirming if just for once - THIS 👇 was the story
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Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
November 2, 2025 at 6:53 PM
Let's just take a moment to reflect on the self-sacrifice and hope this person embodies - not the evil, hateful monsters thirsting for violence.
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“Unjust structures need to be recognized and eradicated by the force of good, by changing mindsets but also, with the help of science and technology, by developing effective policies for societal change,” Pope Leo writes. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/e...
Leo XIV speaks out on ‘dictatorship’ of economic inequality and support for migrants in first major text | CNN
Pope Leo XIV, writing in the first major document of his pontificate, has denounced the “dictatorship” of economic inequality while insisting the Catholic Church is committed to supporting “rejected” ...
www.cnn.com
November 1, 2025 at 12:26 AM
“Unjust structures need to be recognized and eradicated by the force of good, by changing mindsets but also, with the help of science and technology, by developing effective policies for societal change,” Pope Leo writes. www.cnn.com/2025/10/09/e...
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"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope
October 31, 2025 at 11:40 AM
"An economy that kills, that excludes, that starves, that concentrates enormous wealth in a few to the detriment of the many, that multiplies poverty and grinds down salaries, that pollutes, that produces war, is not an economy: It is just an emptiness, an absence, a sickness." #PopeFrancis #Hope
This is very, very true and will be true in perpetuity. Similarly support for Bolsanaro in Brazil. Evangelicalism has been entirely captured by the far right and a movement that is thunderous counter-cultural when it wants to be is timid as a mouse on weighty matters.
October 31, 2025 at 10:02 AM
This is very, very true and will be true in perpetuity. Similarly support for Bolsanaro in Brazil. Evangelicalism has been entirely captured by the far right and a movement that is thunderous counter-cultural when it wants to be is timid as a mouse on weighty matters.
The anti-Jesus movement
The top three things Jesus was on about were feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and welcoming the stranger. Rich men have convinced so-called Christians to starve the hungry, gut health care, and deport the stranger to enrich themselves. It’s astoundingly anti-Christ.
October 31, 2025 at 9:55 AM
The anti-Jesus movement
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History repeating itself!
October 30, 2025 at 2:43 AM
History repeating itself!
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It's good that they keep bright her memory. She should have been here to see this happen. May she rest in peace.
October 30, 2025 at 11:13 PM
It's good that they keep bright her memory. She should have been here to see this happen. May she rest in peace.