Richard Servian
serwianski.bsky.social
Richard Servian
@serwianski.bsky.social
Sometime Social Worker, voyager, County Cricket fan, Labourist, 60/70s Rock Gods concert goer, Black Country dweller…. Read lots of fiction…
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#NASW strongly opposes the motion to expel the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) from the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW). Read our full statement: tinyurl.com/5rtf954s
February 17, 2026 at 2:16 PM
Massive blow as Government axe funding for crackdown on rogue 'exempt' providers

www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
Massive blow as Government axe funding for crackdown on rogue 'exempt' providers
Labour government confirms it is axing special fund to help Birmingham tackle impact of supported exempt accommodation
www.birminghammail.co.uk
February 16, 2026 at 3:23 PM
First look at Birmingham New Street to Kings Norton Station Camphill Line timetable www.birminghammail.co.uk/news/midland...
First look at Camp Line train timetable ahead of opening
Trains will be running roughly every 30 minutes from Kings Norton to Birmingham New Street along the Camp Hill Line
www.birminghammail.co.uk
February 11, 2026 at 9:58 PM
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our FT story from June 2023 showed:

Mandelson stayed at Epstein’s $77m townhouse in Manhattan in June 2009 while the financier was in prison for soliciting prostitution from minor

in 2010 and 2011 Epstein noted that “Petie” was with him in Paris, where the financier owned a sumptuous apartment
February 11, 2026 at 7:59 AM
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Multimillionaire Brexiter, Tim Martin, urges pubs to back Reform. Just like he urged the country to vote for Brexit. Too bad if it makes you poorer. Too bad for the children he’ll push back into poverty. Tim wants more money. And he couldn’t give a shit about the cost for everybody else.
(iPaper)
February 10, 2026 at 7:29 AM
Interesting interview with former Minister Denis Macshane (who spent some time behind bars for fiddling expenses) about Mcsweeney on France24 english service...
February 8, 2026 at 6:16 PM
Now Sweeney has gone is the Postal Minister the most useless Government member?
Constituents of Wolverhampton West have been raising serious concerns about long delays in receiving their post, with some reporting no letters for weeks. Missing important appointment letters or having to queue for hours at delivery offices is simply not acceptable.
February 8, 2026 at 4:04 PM
Sorry to hear my Cousin Kathrine Salahi has died aged 80. The book London Recruits, about actively opposing South African Apartheid incudes a section about her. www.londonrecruits.org.uk/index.php/in...
This American Life
The amazing story of young, white, non-South African people who went on secret missions to South Africa to help overthrow the apartheid regime.
www.londonrecruits.org.uk
February 8, 2026 at 3:00 PM
So local MP McFadden seems to be the voice of the Starmerites. Still hear local Labour members complain about him being parachuted into the Constituency under Blair, after the previous MP was persuaded to stand down for a peerage….
BREAKING: Work & Pensions Secretary Pat McFadden says he doesn’t think Morgan McSweeney should stand down over Mandelson’s appointment

“In the end it’s a Prime Ministerial appointment and Prime Minister’s have to take responsibility for the decisions they make” he says
February 8, 2026 at 1:38 PM
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New York state lawmakers have introduced legislation to boost spending on the state’s troubled guardianship system by $15 million a year — an unprecedented infusion for a bureaucracy that has long struggled to care for the state's most vulnerable.
We Found New York’s Guardianship System in Shambles. Now State Lawmakers Say They Have a Plan to Help Fix It.
Two years after ProPublica first documented the state’s dire shortage of guardians — and the substandard care some provide — lawmakers are pitching a $15 million-per-year fix. It’s unclear whether the...
www.propublica.org
February 7, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Apres moi, le deluge.
Has it stopped raining this year?
February 7, 2026 at 3:33 PM
Worcestershire Reform led Council looking to increase Council Tax well abive inflation www.worcesternews.co.uk/news/2582895...
Council given 'sobering' warning over 'fragile' finances
WORCESTERSHIRE County Council has been given a “sobering” warning over the state of its finances.
www.worcesternews.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 6:13 PM
Interesting the @expressandstar.com could only get one Labour MP to comment on the Epstein-Mandelson scandal. I don't know if that's because of the Paper's usual political bent but well done @cateccles.bsky.social
February 6, 2026 at 5:07 PM
Beginning to work out which Bluesky pisters are bots or corporate
February 6, 2026 at 10:45 AM
Described as an 'empire building vanity project' when there are closed schools that could be reopened Bosses to approve £1m spending and 125-year lease for new free school

www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
Bosses to approve £1m spending and 125-year lease for new free school
Walsall Council has reported no negative health or climate implications as a result of losing 13.7 acres of public woodland
www.birminghammail.co.uk
February 6, 2026 at 10:10 AM
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🔴 BREAKING: Labour Together paid controversial PR firm £30k to investigate journalists who were digging into how its undeclared funding

Reporters from Sunday Times, Guardian and other outlets targetted

*And* Morgan McSweeney knew about it

Full story:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/exclusive-...
BREAKING: McSweeney’s think tank paid PR firm to investigate journalists
Labour Together put private investigators onto journalists writing about its funding. Starmer's right-hand man knew.
democracyforsale.substack.com
February 5, 2026 at 8:01 PM
Good to see @privateeyenews.bsky.social continuing to cover Childrens social care
February 5, 2026 at 12:27 PM
'Greedy' Dudley Care Home Owners tried to embezzle £178k from pensioner with fake will www.birminghammail.co.uk/black-countr...
Greedy couple locked up for trying to steal £178k from pensioner with fake will
Graham Walker, 74, and Lyn Walker, 71, have now been locked up
www.birminghammail.co.uk
February 4, 2026 at 9:32 PM
Anybody else playing Spot The Location, now Witless Silence is made in Birmingham?
February 3, 2026 at 4:04 AM