Reposted by Pat McClay
Reposted by Pat McClay
Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis.
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
UK's food bank crisis is violating our basic human rights
Food banks are a violation of our human right to food on an unprecedented scale. Hunger should spark outrage, writes Just Fair’s Alex Firth.
www.bigissue.com
November 26, 2024 at 7:38 AM
Hunger is a violation of basic human rights – we should be outraged by UK's food bank crisis.
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
Work doesn't pay. 38% of universal credit claimants are at work.
1% has more wealth than 70% of the population combined.
Must redistribute income/wealth. Tax the rich.
www.bigissue.com/opinion/food...
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🧵 Whatever your views on assisted dying, I always assumed we’d all agree that the topic is ethically fraught & complex.
Not so Matthew Parris.
For him, it’s simple.
Earlier this year, he argued that old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n
Not so Matthew Parris.
For him, it’s simple.
Earlier this year, he argued that old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n
November 25, 2024 at 6:17 PM
🧵 Whatever your views on assisted dying, I always assumed we’d all agree that the topic is ethically fraught & complex.
Not so Matthew Parris.
For him, it’s simple.
Earlier this year, he argued that old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n
Not so Matthew Parris.
For him, it’s simple.
Earlier this year, he argued that old & frail people *should* be killed - to save society the cost of looking after them. 1/n
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A Dignity in Dying patron, AC Grayling, has told The Telegraph he’d already like to extend assisted dying to people who are “wheelchair bound.” Not remotely chilling. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
November 25, 2024 at 10:42 AM
A Dignity in Dying patron, AC Grayling, has told The Telegraph he’d already like to extend assisted dying to people who are “wheelchair bound.” Not remotely chilling. www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2024/11...
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Things I learnt while working on overseas emergencies: no. 1) everyone who knows anything is terrified of a measles outbreak and that's why we vaccinate
Annual morbidity in the 20th century, before and after vaccines:
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
Measles:
Before: 530,000, After: 47
Mumps:
Before: 160,000, After: 429
Rubella:
Before: 50,000, After: 3
Diphtheria:
Before: 20,000, After: 2
Smallpox:
Before: 30,000, After: 0
Polio:
Before: 16,000, After: 0
November 17, 2024 at 7:33 PM
Things I learnt while working on overseas emergencies: no. 1) everyone who knows anything is terrified of a measles outbreak and that's why we vaccinate
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I rarely recommend blocking, but ⬇️
@trobinsonnewera.bsky.social
@trobinsonnewera.bsky.social
November 16, 2024 at 8:49 PM
I rarely recommend blocking, but ⬇️
@trobinsonnewera.bsky.social
@trobinsonnewera.bsky.social
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This is awful & heartbreaking. Schoolchildren from struggling families have pretended to eat out of empty lunchboxes to save their embarrassment at having no food.
Ending child poverty must be a priority for the Government
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ending child poverty must be a priority for the Government
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Milton Keynes children 'pretending to eat from empty lunchboxes'
More than one in three children in Milton Keynes are living in poverty, an organisation says.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 16, 2024 at 2:29 PM
This is awful & heartbreaking. Schoolchildren from struggling families have pretended to eat out of empty lunchboxes to save their embarrassment at having no food.
Ending child poverty must be a priority for the Government
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Ending child poverty must be a priority for the Government
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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NEW: Neo-Nazis are planning to descend on the Scottish town this weekend for a white power gig.
Around 150 white supremacists will attend an event featuring big names in the neo-Nazi music in Bathgate, West Lothian, on Saturday, the charity Hope Not Hate said.
www.thenational.scot/news/2472549...
Around 150 white supremacists will attend an event featuring big names in the neo-Nazi music in Bathgate, West Lothian, on Saturday, the charity Hope Not Hate said.
www.thenational.scot/news/2472549...
November 14, 2024 at 6:29 PM
NEW: Neo-Nazis are planning to descend on the Scottish town this weekend for a white power gig.
Around 150 white supremacists will attend an event featuring big names in the neo-Nazi music in Bathgate, West Lothian, on Saturday, the charity Hope Not Hate said.
www.thenational.scot/news/2472549...
Around 150 white supremacists will attend an event featuring big names in the neo-Nazi music in Bathgate, West Lothian, on Saturday, the charity Hope Not Hate said.
www.thenational.scot/news/2472549...
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A huge thank you to all our new followers. 🙏
We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.
We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.
August 30, 2024 at 1:34 PM
A huge thank you to all our new followers. 🙏
We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.
We’d love to get to a big round 10k this weekend. You could help us get our progressive voice out to a few more by reposting this telling your followers why they should follow us.
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Always this. Never not this. You don’t get to say “well, if you read the story, you’ll see it’s a careful and nuanced take”. Is it? Then don’t use a dogshit headline!
100x as many people see the social headline as read the body of the story! it's *more* important to get it right
August 31, 2024 at 12:19 AM
Always this. Never not this. You don’t get to say “well, if you read the story, you’ll see it’s a careful and nuanced take”. Is it? Then don’t use a dogshit headline!
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Brace yourself.
Farage has an income of £120,000 PER MONTH, including £97,928.40 pcm from GB News alone…and £16, 597.22 just from making those ridiculous cameos, that’s according to his register of interests that @edwinhayward.com posted on 🐦
Farage has an income of £120,000 PER MONTH, including £97,928.40 pcm from GB News alone…and £16, 597.22 just from making those ridiculous cameos, that’s according to his register of interests that @edwinhayward.com posted on 🐦
August 16, 2024 at 11:25 PM
Brace yourself.
Farage has an income of £120,000 PER MONTH, including £97,928.40 pcm from GB News alone…and £16, 597.22 just from making those ridiculous cameos, that’s according to his register of interests that @edwinhayward.com posted on 🐦
Farage has an income of £120,000 PER MONTH, including £97,928.40 pcm from GB News alone…and £16, 597.22 just from making those ridiculous cameos, that’s according to his register of interests that @edwinhayward.com posted on 🐦
I've done the rounds of Threads and Mastodon and here and I genuinely feel most comfy here. I think it's probably because it looks 'right' and feels very Twitter in the early days.
August 16, 2024 at 8:42 PM
I've done the rounds of Threads and Mastodon and here and I genuinely feel most comfy here. I think it's probably because it looks 'right' and feels very Twitter in the early days.
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I can’t cope with this ♥️♥️
November 7, 2023 at 9:22 AM
I can’t cope with this ♥️♥️
@justme21.bsky.social This is very much like Twitter was in the early days. But I think it will liven up once invite codes are gone.
November 30, 2023 at 11:40 AM
@justme21.bsky.social This is very much like Twitter was in the early days. But I think it will liven up once invite codes are gone.