Books by Mary O’Hara
@maryohara1.bsky.social
Writer, author, producer, book lover. Maryoharaproductions.com
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Reminder that my latest book is on the shelves, virtual and otherwise! As are the others. 📚📚📚 #books www.austeritybitesuk10yearson.com
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The left-wing government in the UK and its right-wing US counterpart both have people with disabilities in their sights. @maryohara1.bsky.social talks to advocates, family members and professionals.
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Red austerity in the UK… and in the US
The left-wing government in the UK and its right-wing US counterpart both have people with disabilities in their sights. Mary O’Hara talks to advocates, family members and professionals
communitylivingmagazine.com
October 31, 2025 at 2:35 PM
The left-wing government in the UK and its right-wing US counterpart both have people with disabilities in their sights. @maryohara1.bsky.social talks to advocates, family members and professionals.
communitylivingmagazine.com/red-austerit...
communitylivingmagazine.com/red-austerit...
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🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com
October 30, 2025 at 7:18 AM
🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks
bylinetimes.com/2025/10/28/a...
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Wye pollution legal claim filed at High Court
A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court
westenglandbylines.co.uk/business/wat...
A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court
westenglandbylines.co.uk/business/wat...
Wye pollution legal claim filed at High Court
A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court
westenglandbylines.co.uk
October 28, 2025 at 2:57 PM
Wye pollution legal claim filed at High Court
A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court
westenglandbylines.co.uk/business/wat...
A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court
westenglandbylines.co.uk/business/wat...
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"Without nonprofit publishers American letters would have stalled long ago,” said Percival Everett.
Well said, Mr. Everett! 👏👏
literaryartsfund.org/about/
Well said, Mr. Everett! 👏👏
literaryartsfund.org/about/
About | Literary Arts Fund
The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.
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October 28, 2025 at 7:12 PM
"Without nonprofit publishers American letters would have stalled long ago,” said Percival Everett.
Well said, Mr. Everett! 👏👏
literaryartsfund.org/about/
Well said, Mr. Everett! 👏👏
literaryartsfund.org/about/
Never the fun part of writing, but authors need to promote their books, so here is another push from me. I wish the books were no longer relevant, but unfortunately they are. #austerity #poverty
Reminder that my latest book is on the shelves, virtual and otherwise! As are the others. 📚📚📚 #books www.austeritybitesuk10yearson.com
October 28, 2025 at 5:23 PM
Never the fun part of writing, but authors need to promote their books, so here is another push from me. I wish the books were no longer relevant, but unfortunately they are. #austerity #poverty
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Not been on here in a while but please check out this wonderful magazine I’m chuffed to be a part of. What a brilliant group of contributors and thank you @sabasalman.com for leading from the front! 🥰
New stories out now! As the risk to rights and access continues apace, meet those taking positive action
communitylivingmagazine.com With @maryohara1.bsky.social @propjourn.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social @seankellyphotos.bsky.social @samcarlisle.bsky.social @georgejulian.bsky.social
communitylivingmagazine.com With @maryohara1.bsky.social @propjourn.bsky.social @learningdiseng.bsky.social @seankellyphotos.bsky.social @samcarlisle.bsky.social @georgejulian.bsky.social
Community Living
The campaigning magazine on equality, inclusion and living life: learning disabilities, care, health, welfare, housing, arts and more
communitylivingmagazine.com
October 23, 2025 at 3:32 AM
Not been on here in a while but please check out this wonderful magazine I’m chuffed to be a part of. What a brilliant group of contributors and thank you @sabasalman.com for leading from the front! 🥰
It is one year since my most recent book, Austerity Bites: 10 years on, was published. (Order from your local bookshop or library). Labour could, and should, have done so much good with their massive majority. #poverty #austerity www.maryoharaproductions.com/my-projects/...
Books — Content with Class
www.maryoharaproductions.com
September 23, 2025 at 7:43 PM
It is one year since my most recent book, Austerity Bites: 10 years on, was published. (Order from your local bookshop or library). Labour could, and should, have done so much good with their massive majority. #poverty #austerity www.maryoharaproductions.com/my-projects/...
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“You simply can’t get away with being the housing secretary and avoiding £40,000 in council tax,” Farage told the conference. But the deputy PM had underpaid stamp duty, not council tax. Farage may have struggled to get indignant on stamp duty, having taken legal steps not to pay it himself.
The Reform party conference and the end of democracy
Farage is getting ready for power, but his party is becoming much more politically extreme than he is. If he gets the chance, will he give them what they want?
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 6, 2025 at 7:57 PM
“You simply can’t get away with being the housing secretary and avoiding £40,000 in council tax,” Farage told the conference. But the deputy PM had underpaid stamp duty, not council tax. Farage may have struggled to get indignant on stamp duty, having taken legal steps not to pay it himself.
She’s writing about the 80s in France, but so much of this feels prescient in the current context. We live in bewildering times. And to a degree, we always have.
September 6, 2025 at 9:55 PM
She’s writing about the 80s in France, but so much of this feels prescient in the current context. We live in bewildering times. And to a degree, we always have.
Amazing tree bark
September 6, 2025 at 12:48 AM
Amazing tree bark
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Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
Why Walking Helps Us Think
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
www.newyorker.com
September 3, 2025 at 5:34 PM
Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.
A regular reminder that we writers love it when people read, rent, buy books. All kinds of books. But especially our own. It’s a mean old world. All sales and library rentals appreciated. Ask your library to stock if you can’t find/afford a book. Find the audiobook version if that’s your thing. 📚📚📚
Reminder that my latest book is on the shelves, virtual and otherwise! As are the others. 📚📚📚 #books www.austeritybitesuk10yearson.com
September 4, 2025 at 6:40 AM
A regular reminder that we writers love it when people read, rent, buy books. All kinds of books. But especially our own. It’s a mean old world. All sales and library rentals appreciated. Ask your library to stock if you can’t find/afford a book. Find the audiobook version if that’s your thing. 📚📚📚
A California afternoon.
September 4, 2025 at 6:36 AM
A California afternoon.
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"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
Nigel Farage is about to give evidence to the US Congress on threats to free speech in the UK.
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
So here's one for him: Reform UK has just banned me (and @thenewworldmag.bsky.social) from attending its party conference this weekend. www.thenewworld.co.uk/james-ball-w...
Chicken Farage bans The New World
It claims to be the party of free speech, but this last-minute decision to stop me attending tells a very different story
www.thenewworld.co.uk
September 3, 2025 at 2:44 PM
"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.
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Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye
September 2, 2025 at 4:48 PM
Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye
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Rising inequality turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns.
All over the world the rich/corporations buy the political system with donations, get favours in return.
Nothing will change until political donations are criminalized, people take rights e.g. workers vote on exec pay.
All over the world the rich/corporations buy the political system with donations, get favours in return.
Nothing will change until political donations are criminalized, people take rights e.g. workers vote on exec pay.
Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns
Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald Trump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the economy
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Rising inequality turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns.
All over the world the rich/corporations buy the political system with donations, get favours in return.
Nothing will change until political donations are criminalized, people take rights e.g. workers vote on exec pay.
All over the world the rich/corporations buy the political system with donations, get favours in return.
Nothing will change until political donations are criminalized, people take rights e.g. workers vote on exec pay.
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September 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
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Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
September 2, 2025 at 8:11 PM
Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"
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An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History
Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.
www.newyorker.com
August 25, 2025 at 2:43 PM
An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.
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🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the GOP's emergency petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan, ruling that GOP lawmakers had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief” under the state Constitution.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
August 21, 2025 at 1:35 AM
🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the GOP's emergency petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan, ruling that GOP lawmakers had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief” under the state Constitution.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.
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More than 8,000 council-owned buildings are lying empty across Britain and it could deliver 25,000 homes if cash-strapped councils can act.
Empty council-owned buildings 'could pave way for 25,000 new homes'
www.bigissue.com
August 21, 2025 at 5:49 AM
More than 8,000 council-owned buildings are lying empty across Britain and it could deliver 25,000 homes if cash-strapped councils can act.
Term I hate: optimized resume. Translate: age wash. Fit with stupid AI hoops.
August 19, 2025 at 5:37 AM
Term I hate: optimized resume. Translate: age wash. Fit with stupid AI hoops.
Every now and then I remember that for O Level history I studied the history of medicine as well as the American West and, in particular, what was inflicted upon native tribes. Blows my mind. And we dug deep. What a privilege my education in a working class secondary school was. 🤯
August 18, 2025 at 7:07 AM
Every now and then I remember that for O Level history I studied the history of medicine as well as the American West and, in particular, what was inflicted upon native tribes. Blows my mind. And we dug deep. What a privilege my education in a working class secondary school was. 🤯
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More than 40 percent of U.S. citizens are in some form of medical debt.
These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.
These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.
Fed up with U.S. health care costs, these Americans moved abroad
Three Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling medical debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.
www.washingtonpost.com
August 17, 2025 at 4:09 PM
More than 40 percent of U.S. citizens are in some form of medical debt.
These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.
These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.