CW
@captainwhitter.bsky.social
I am a curious and a critical thinker. Always believed that the whole is greater than the sum of the parts and in working together for a better world. Born out of life experience and past work in health and social care. Humanist. Grandparent. Proud 🇪🇺🇬🇧
@nationalhighways.bsky.social it’s pretty useless having gantry road signs alerting you to motorway closures etc, eg M3 J8-9 closed, when you are on a journey unless you happen to know where these junctions are. Please improve with better location information!
February 14, 2026 at 8:58 PM
@nationalhighways.bsky.social it’s pretty useless having gantry road signs alerting you to motorway closures etc, eg M3 J8-9 closed, when you are on a journey unless you happen to know where these junctions are. Please improve with better location information!
Love this! @davidgierlach
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October 14, 2025 at 11:11 AM
Love this! @davidgierlach
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Shame on the BBC for editing this Thought for the Day which I heard yesterday and which was spot on. The narrative needs to change.
'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
BBC apologises after Robert Jenrick accused of xenophobia
A contributor to Radio 4's Thought for the Day slot made the remark about the shadow justice secretary.
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August 14, 2025 at 3:12 PM
Shame on the BBC for editing this Thought for the Day which I heard yesterday and which was spot on. The narrative needs to change.
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
June 7, 2025 at 9:10 AM
Couldn’t have said it better myself.
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A fantastic humanist sentiment for today by our patron Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social.
March 18, 2025 at 10:39 AM
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An interesting read after the events of yesterday at the White House www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...
The She Made Him Do It Theory of Everything
The rhetoric and logic of the abuse of power operates similarly at all scales, which is why I've found feminism such useful equipment for understanding authoritarians in public and political life. Bec...
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March 1, 2025 at 7:57 AM
An interesting read after the events of yesterday at the White House www.meditationsinanemergency.com/the-she-made...
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Mark Twain said
‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.’ So apposite now
‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.’ So apposite now
February 21, 2025 at 12:52 PM
Mark Twain said
‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.’ So apposite now
‘Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime.’ So apposite now
‘Successive governments have failed us over immigration by making the truth elusive’. This article by @yorkshirebylines.co.uk is well worth a read. 👏👏
It’s time for the much vaunted ‘grown-up’ debate on immigration
The UK’s immigration debate fails to address its complexities, with politicians relying on opinions over facts, leaving voters ill-informed and angry
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The UK’s immigration debate fails to address its complexities, with politicians relying on opinions over facts, leaving voters ill-informed and angry
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It’s time for the much vaunted ‘grown-up’ debate on immigration
The UK’s immigration debate fails to address its complexities, with politicians relying on opinions over facts, leaving voters ill-informed and angry
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
February 18, 2025 at 8:08 AM
‘Successive governments have failed us over immigration by making the truth elusive’. This article by @yorkshirebylines.co.uk is well worth a read. 👏👏
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Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
By Mark Leonard
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
By Mark Leonard
Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
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February 13, 2025 at 9:50 AM
Denmark shows how Labour can defeat the populist right
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
By Mark Leonard
Mette Frederiksen’s Social Democrats have transformed the immigration debate to the centre left’s advantage.
By Mark Leonard
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Europe needs to unite and beef up the common defence policy and stand shoulder to shoulder against Russia and fill the vacuum left by the USA. And it needs to do it now not in some imaginary far off point in the future.
No space to dilly dally and if we do, then our kids will wind up in uniform.
No space to dilly dally and if we do, then our kids will wind up in uniform.
February 13, 2025 at 9:52 AM
Europe needs to unite and beef up the common defence policy and stand shoulder to shoulder against Russia and fill the vacuum left by the USA. And it needs to do it now not in some imaginary far off point in the future.
No space to dilly dally and if we do, then our kids will wind up in uniform.
No space to dilly dally and if we do, then our kids will wind up in uniform.
Another piece of the jigsaw on the housing crisis. To help address the problem, we need a good stock of social housing, with affordable rents, which can’t be sold.
Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sight | Aditya Chakrabortty
Call it Thatcher’s timebomb: the great council housing selloff of 2024, a crisis hidden in plain sight | Aditya Chakrabortty
Her right to buy policy enriched the private sector at taxpayers’ expense. Last year, it sparked another gold rush – and looming calamity for local authorities
Perhaps only England could make its politician of the moment a woman who died more than a…
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February 13, 2025 at 10:40 AM
Another piece of the jigsaw on the housing crisis. To help address the problem, we need a good stock of social housing, with affordable rents, which can’t be sold.
We live in very worrying times. Great analysis of what is happening by @chrischirp.bsky.social
Absolutely chilling post by @chrischirp.bsky.social setting out how T rump is aggressively mobilising a classic authoritarian playbook. I did not think I would see the death of American democracy (and American science) in my lifetime. #academicsky
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"So this is how liberty dies… " Making sense of Trump's first three weeks
Where I categorise 69 Trump administration actions from the last 3 weeks and show how they align with the authoritarian playbook
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February 13, 2025 at 9:00 AM
We live in very worrying times. Great analysis of what is happening by @chrischirp.bsky.social
‘US generosity is often seen as mere charity, but it is in the country’s self-interest to be generous because the creation of a more stable world benefits us all.’ The same applies here. Let’s all wake up to this.
Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
Be clear about what Trump and Musk’s aid axe will do: people will face terror and starve, many will die | Gordon Brown
The decimation of USAid is already having a terrible effect in some of the poorest places on the planet. It damages America: it will harm us all
An earthquake of magnitude 7.0 or above could not have caused more carnage. Recent floods in Asia and…
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February 7, 2025 at 7:50 AM
‘US generosity is often seen as mere charity, but it is in the country’s self-interest to be generous because the creation of a more stable world benefits us all.’ The same applies here. Let’s all wake up to this.
It never ceases to amaze me that education on ‘the ageing population’ nettle and how to address it with the general public is never grasped by politicians.
Tories stoked grievances about immigration, ensuring a belief that immigration was to blame for austerity.
🇬🇧 needs immigration as we have a large ageing population with declining birth rate, but xenophobes prefer snake oil salesmen who scapegoat immigrants.
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🇬🇧 needs immigration as we have a large ageing population with declining birth rate, but xenophobes prefer snake oil salesmen who scapegoat immigrants.
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
The Tories’ Brexit tailspin
Kemi Badenoch’s strategy of agreeing with Reform risks backfiring.
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February 5, 2025 at 8:04 AM
It never ceases to amaze me that education on ‘the ageing population’ nettle and how to address it with the general public is never grasped by politicians.
‘Establishing social care as a one-stop shop will save money in the longer term as holistic care will save everyone from having to trudge from one appointment to the next, because they will be seen as a whole person, not just a body part gone wrong.’
Spot on. Integrated care can only work this way..
Spot on. Integrated care can only work this way..
The care taskforce needs boldness, not buzzwords | Letters
The care taskforce needs boldness, not buzzwords | Letters
Wes Streeting is wrong to frame social care as a burden on the NHS , writes Dr Melanie Henwood. Plus letters from Dr Marion Witton and Mike Smith.
The announcement of a new commission on social care has been met with an audible sigh from commentators,…
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January 8, 2025 at 7:08 PM
‘Establishing social care as a one-stop shop will save money in the longer term as holistic care will save everyone from having to trudge from one appointment to the next, because they will be seen as a whole person, not just a body part gone wrong.’
Spot on. Integrated care can only work this way..
Spot on. Integrated care can only work this way..
I have been thinking this myself of Musk with his increasingly erratic and out of control behaviour, but will his nearest and dearest attempt to take action to help him in these darkest of hours?
January 8, 2025 at 2:07 PM
I have been thinking this myself of Musk with his increasingly erratic and out of control behaviour, but will his nearest and dearest attempt to take action to help him in these darkest of hours?
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Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
January 8, 2025 at 9:31 AM
Make no mistake. Every politician, pundit & online grifter amplifying Musk's dangerous lies will be aware of this intervention by now. Make no mistake, they are choosing to mislead the public & politicise the suffering of victims in the shameful pursuit of political advantage, attention & clicks.
Everything you ever wanted to know aboid protecting your data
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The WIRED Guide to Protecting Yourself From Government Surveillance
Donald Trump has vowed to deport millions and jail his enemies. To carry out that agenda, his administration will exploit America’s digital surveillance machine. Here are some steps you can take to ev...
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November 13, 2024 at 4:34 PM
Everything you ever wanted to know aboid protecting your data
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No matter what cause you deem more important - climate, health, education,…- disinformation is a threat to making any progress to it.
November 13, 2024 at 1:02 AM
No matter what cause you deem more important - climate, health, education,…- disinformation is a threat to making any progress to it.
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A little crucial reminder that vaccines save lives. Analysis by WHO shows that global immunisation to 14 diseases (polio, measles, meningitis) has saved approximately 154million lives- 101million of those were infants. 🧪🧵
Global immunization efforts have saved at least 154 million lives over the past 50 years
A major landmark study reveals that global immunization efforts have saved an estimated 154 million lives – or the equivalent of 6 lives every minute of every year – over the past 50 years. The vast m...
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November 12, 2024 at 3:48 PM
A little crucial reminder that vaccines save lives. Analysis by WHO shows that global immunisation to 14 diseases (polio, measles, meningitis) has saved approximately 154million lives- 101million of those were infants. 🧪🧵
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While I’m asking for things, I also wish people would not express the idea that something is unlawful or unconstitutional by saying “you can’t do X.” X being unlawful does not mean X cannot be done.
November 13, 2024 at 6:17 AM
While I’m asking for things, I also wish people would not express the idea that something is unlawful or unconstitutional by saying “you can’t do X.” X being unlawful does not mean X cannot be done.
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The point is to understand people who live/ feel/ think very differently from oneself. One does not have to imitate them.
November 10, 2024 at 11:45 AM
The point is to understand people who live/ feel/ think very differently from oneself. One does not have to imitate them.
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Latest from Carole Cadwalladr
"Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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"Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
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A new era dawns. America’s tech bros now strut their stuff in the corridors of power | Carole Cadwalladr
The era that began with the Great Disruptor’s first term is over. Beware the emerging elite
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November 10, 2024 at 6:52 PM
Latest from Carole Cadwalladr
"Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
"Please read this. It's literally been 8 years in the writing.
The first wave of tech disruption of democracy 2016-2024 is over. What starts now is something much, much worse: the age of information chaos.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
How beautiful is Benedictus
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Soul Music - Benedictus - BBC Sounds
With its message of peace, Karl Jenkins's Benedictus brings solace in hard times.
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November 9, 2024 at 10:37 PM
How beautiful is Benedictus
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