The Piper's Wife
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Singer of folk songs. That automatically makes me a leftie 😉.
Good with pronouns and disability awareness.
Bad with anti-immigrant rhetoric and victim blaming.
Good with pronouns and disability awareness.
Bad with anti-immigrant rhetoric and victim blaming.
So much for the claimed "civilising" influence of colonialism, if indeed anyone still believes in that.
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Diverse, communal, gender-fluid: African families’ true history is being whitewashed | Wambui Kimani
Rightwing moralists are pushing the nuclear family as the ideal path. But this is a neo-colonial mindset that is truly unAfrican
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July 9, 2025 at 11:49 AM
So much for the claimed "civilising" influence of colonialism, if indeed anyone still believes in that.
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Symptomatic of the state of our nation and the wider, greedy corporate world.
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Innocent subpostmasters went to jail, but now it is clear: the Post Office boss class belong there instead | Marina Hyde
You thought it couldn’t get any worse, but the most widespread miscarriage of justice in British legal history just got wider, says Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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July 9, 2025 at 11:44 AM
Symptomatic of the state of our nation and the wider, greedy corporate world.
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"...a society that arrests an 83-year-old retired vicar for holding a placard supporting non-violent direct action, and opposed to genocide, is firmly on an authoritarian pathway."
The UK, now.
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The UK, now.
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This column does not express support for Palestine Action – here’s why | Owen Jones
In Britain’s increasingly authoritarian society, any sort of protest can find itself at odds with the law. You might even go to jail, says Guardian columnist Owen Jones
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July 9, 2025 at 11:39 AM
"...a society that arrests an 83-year-old retired vicar for holding a placard supporting non-violent direct action, and opposed to genocide, is firmly on an authoritarian pathway."
The UK, now.
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The UK, now.
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"Shared family values", eh? Look out for all Starmer's relatives getting influential appointments and plenty of government business, then.
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Keir Starmer says good relationship with Donald Trump based on shared family values
On first anniversary of Labour taking power, prime minister says it is ‘in the national interest’ for pair to connect
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July 4, 2025 at 2:11 PM
"Shared family values", eh? Look out for all Starmer's relatives getting influential appointments and plenty of government business, then.
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www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Well, there's a surprise. 🤣
June 30, 2025 at 7:43 PM
Well, there's a surprise. 🤣
Labour's belief in human dignity writ large.
“Someone who needs assistance to cut up food, wash their hair and body below the waist, use the toilet and dress/undress their lower body wouldn’t receive Pip under the new rules.”
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“Someone who needs assistance to cut up food, wash their hair and body below the waist, use the toilet and dress/undress their lower body wouldn’t receive Pip under the new rules.”
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Look at Labour’s cruel attitude towards disability benefits, then tell me Keir Starmer cares about 'human dignity' | John Harris
These proposed cuts will turn people’s lives into a nightmare. No wonder they are scared about where this all might lead, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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June 22, 2025 at 6:00 PM
Labour's belief in human dignity writ large.
“Someone who needs assistance to cut up food, wash their hair and body below the waist, use the toilet and dress/undress their lower body wouldn’t receive Pip under the new rules.”
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
“Someone who needs assistance to cut up food, wash their hair and body below the waist, use the toilet and dress/undress their lower body wouldn’t receive Pip under the new rules.”
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Israel's Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, "People who attack hospitals are Nazis."
Does anybody want to tell him?
Does anybody want to tell him?
June 19, 2025 at 5:43 PM
Israel's Minister for National Security Itamar Ben-Gvir, "People who attack hospitals are Nazis."
Does anybody want to tell him?
Does anybody want to tell him?
Incontinent and can't wash your lower body? That's fine. You're not disabled enough. Go get yourself something more debilitating to suffer from and come back and try again.
This government is really going from strength to strength.
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This government is really going from strength to strength.
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Labour MP resigns as government whip in protest at benefit cuts
Vicky Foxcroft says she cannot support changes to disability payments ahead of key vote on welfare bill
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June 19, 2025 at 10:39 PM
Incontinent and can't wash your lower body? That's fine. You're not disabled enough. Go get yourself something more debilitating to suffer from and come back and try again.
This government is really going from strength to strength.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
This government is really going from strength to strength.
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A small sample of the human beings whose family lives are the sacrifice on the altar of appeasing the far right. Come on, Labour, you really should be doing better.
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In limbo: families hoping for change to UK income rules for spousal visas
Photographer Frankie Mills documents the lives of nine families whose stories illustrate the human cost of this policy threshold
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June 10, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A small sample of the human beings whose family lives are the sacrifice on the altar of appeasing the far right. Come on, Labour, you really should be doing better.
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BEFORE going to trial. BEFORE being found guilty, which, as we still allegedly have the presumption of innocence, he might well not be. If this happened to a British citizen overseas, there would be an outcry, but it's happening here, under a Labour government.
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‘It’s outrageous,’ says mother of UK Israel protest accused as he faces 21 months in jail before trial
William Plastow’s mother believes it is the longest anyone will have been held awaiting trial on protest-related charges
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June 8, 2025 at 1:52 PM
BEFORE going to trial. BEFORE being found guilty, which, as we still allegedly have the presumption of innocence, he might well not be. If this happened to a British citizen overseas, there would be an outcry, but it's happening here, under a Labour government.
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Does this make you uncomfortable while you laugh? It should.
June 8, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Does this make you uncomfortable while you laugh? It should.
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If the profits going to Private companies in the UK went to the Government they could build 7m houses a year or 3,500 New Hospitals.
And before privatisation nearly 60% of it was.
And before privatisation nearly 60% of it was.
June 8, 2025 at 11:16 AM
If the profits going to Private companies in the UK went to the Government they could build 7m houses a year or 3,500 New Hospitals.
And before privatisation nearly 60% of it was.
And before privatisation nearly 60% of it was.
Valid point.
Just want to add my voice to the increasing wave of disquiet that any uninteresting change in one minority extremist party 'reform' gets headline coverage by BBC news who don't even have an account on here because they think it might be 'too left leaning.'
For pities sake. I'll post this on Threads
For pities sake. I'll post this on Threads
June 8, 2025 at 11:30 AM
Valid point.
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Of all the self help instructionals that I've seen, this is the only one that is guaranteed to work as stated.
June 8, 2025 at 11:04 AM
Of all the self help instructionals that I've seen, this is the only one that is guaranteed to work as stated.
If Farage ever gets to run things, we'll find out pretty quickly.
A newborn baby had to stay in hospital for 5.5 months in the USA in 2011 after being born premature.
The hospital sent their parents this bill after 3 months.
Imagine what they would have done if they weren't insured or couldn't pay their percentage of this bill?
The hospital sent their parents this bill after 3 months.
Imagine what they would have done if they weren't insured or couldn't pay their percentage of this bill?
June 8, 2025 at 11:28 AM
If Farage ever gets to run things, we'll find out pretty quickly.
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35 years of England water privatisation.
Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions.
1trn litres water a year lost in leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year.
£85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced
Last decade, £112m exec bonuses .
Must end privatisation.
Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions.
1trn litres water a year lost in leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year.
£85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced
Last decade, £112m exec bonuses .
Must end privatisation.
Nationalisation is the only way to fix the crisis in the water industry
Despite the damning evidence the government is clinging on to private ownership of water, which has fleeced customers for 36 years.
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June 8, 2025 at 11:08 AM
35 years of England water privatisation.
Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions.
1trn litres water a year lost in leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year.
£85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced
Last decade, £112m exec bonuses .
Must end privatisation.
Industry controlled by companies with 1,135 criminal convictions.
1trn litres water a year lost in leaks.
Sewage dumped in rivers for 3.62m hrs a year.
£85bn dividends, £70bn+ debt, people fleeced
Last decade, £112m exec bonuses .
Must end privatisation.
Not just in the US.
Wellman: When I served in Iraq.. I heard about how Saddam Hussein divided them. Different sects fought each other. But you know -- Saddam and his family sat laughing at all of them. They divided them against each other and kept their power for 35 years. Does this sound familiar to anybody?
June 8, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Not just in the US.
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Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉
June 7, 2025 at 4:44 PM
Oooh, you mean it's OK to leave, realise it's a mistake, then rejoin? 😉