Claire Osborn
@claireosborn.bsky.social
Trade union organiser. Industrial Relations PhD-er. Accidental fossil hunter. Chronically ill. Long Covid, MCAS, POTS. Shropshire Lass
The world’s most tolerant cat today, at a little over 19 years young, crossed the rainbow bridge and we are all heartbroken. Thanks for the good times Jaco
December 7, 2025 at 5:19 PM
The world’s most tolerant cat today, at a little over 19 years young, crossed the rainbow bridge and we are all heartbroken. Thanks for the good times Jaco
I live up the road from a working Victorian town museum, meaning I often hear the music of the old time fair but my favourite is pre Christmas when every weekend is accompanied by brass band carols
December 7, 2025 at 10:06 AM
I live up the road from a working Victorian town museum, meaning I often hear the music of the old time fair but my favourite is pre Christmas when every weekend is accompanied by brass band carols
The whole Rory Stewart Gary Stevenson debacle has me thinking about the cultural capital of credibility and how that comes not from expertise but from RP and having hung out in the correct common room at school and I am SO TIRED
December 6, 2025 at 10:51 AM
The whole Rory Stewart Gary Stevenson debacle has me thinking about the cultural capital of credibility and how that comes not from expertise but from RP and having hung out in the correct common room at school and I am SO TIRED
Bird alert - goldcrest in the acer less than 2m from my bedroom window 😍
December 2, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Bird alert - goldcrest in the acer less than 2m from my bedroom window 😍
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December 2, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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Absolutely disgraceful 👇 - Labour's manifesto promised NHS would be "publicly owned and publicly funded"
Openly now ripping off patients for generations to come
Even the Conservative government said "goodbye to PFI"
Outrageous, unjustifiable, wrong
Openly now ripping off patients for generations to come
Even the Conservative government said "goodbye to PFI"
Outrageous, unjustifiable, wrong
"Part of this will be capital funding we've allocated into the primary care estate.. & some of it, we're working with the private sector as part of a private sector partnership to fund the rest of them"
Minister Karin Smyth on how the new walk in health centres will be funded
Minister Karin Smyth on how the new walk in health centres will be funded
November 25, 2025 at 4:22 PM
Absolutely disgraceful 👇 - Labour's manifesto promised NHS would be "publicly owned and publicly funded"
Openly now ripping off patients for generations to come
Even the Conservative government said "goodbye to PFI"
Outrageous, unjustifiable, wrong
Openly now ripping off patients for generations to come
Even the Conservative government said "goodbye to PFI"
Outrageous, unjustifiable, wrong
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article... Old enough to remember our PM was once a human rights lawyer
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases
Only cases of alleged murder, rape or manslaughter will be decided by a jury under new proposals to cut court backlogs.
www.bbc.com
November 25, 2025 at 3:59 PM
Jury trials could be scrapped except in most serious cases www.bbc.com/news/article... Old enough to remember our PM was once a human rights lawyer
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Reforms Flagship Kent County Council has been so inefficient with money (despite much publicised DOGE visit) they have had to ask the opposition to help them find savings🤦🏼♂️
Plus they will put Council Tax up and cut services..
So Reforms claim they saved £331 million is complete & utter bollox❗️🙄😡
Plus they will put Council Tax up and cut services..
So Reforms claim they saved £331 million is complete & utter bollox❗️🙄😡
Reform UK claim to have saved £331m at English councils – but do the numbers stack up?
Experts say councils face limits on cuts as Reform’s savings on IT deals, office moves and EV projects are disputed
www.theguardian.com
November 24, 2025 at 3:05 PM
Reforms Flagship Kent County Council has been so inefficient with money (despite much publicised DOGE visit) they have had to ask the opposition to help them find savings🤦🏼♂️
Plus they will put Council Tax up and cut services..
So Reforms claim they saved £331 million is complete & utter bollox❗️🙄😡
Plus they will put Council Tax up and cut services..
So Reforms claim they saved £331 million is complete & utter bollox❗️🙄😡
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Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
Many rivers to cross - Jimmy Cliff
YouTube video by TheSunAnge
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November 24, 2025 at 2:16 PM
Jimmy Cliff was touring the clubs of Wolverhampton in the year Enoch Powell made his Rivers of Blood speech. 50 years later artists Anand Chhabra, Jagdish Patel and Vanley Burke responded with the exhibition Many Rivers to Cross, the title of Cliff's 1969 track. RIP www.youtube.com/watch?v=-y9Q...
I wanna be adored is the only bass line I can play! RIP Mani
November 20, 2025 at 10:08 PM
I wanna be adored is the only bass line I can play! RIP Mani
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'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'.
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Up to 50,000 nurses could quit UK over immigration plans, survey suggests
Exclusive: union leaders say proposed changes are immoral and could threaten patient safety if there is staff exodus
www.theguardian.com
November 20, 2025 at 7:50 AM
'Nursing leaders told the Guardian the plans were “immoral” and treated highly skilled migrants as “political footballs”. They said a mass exodus of nurses would threaten patient safety'.
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
Combine this with the number of UK universities shrinking or closing their nursing programmes....
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What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
@pimlicat.bsky.social: "Multiple studies show that ramping up ever-harsher rhetoric on immigration and asylum never wins over Reform-curious voters. The government would be wiser to make the case for the international institutions and protections we all depend on.”
https://bit.ly/49YBJVD
https://bit.ly/49YBJVD
November 17, 2025 at 7:37 PM
What the Home Sec announced today is not the politics of compromise but of being compromised.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
Labour has just increased the salience of an issue they will always be outbid on by the right.
My God the horrors! I am nostalgic for shitty plague island days under Johnson at this point
November 18, 2025 at 10:07 AM
My God the horrors! I am nostalgic for shitty plague island days under Johnson at this point
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Not very long ago, this would have meant the end of his career.
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Robert Jenrick complained of ‘not seeing another white face’ in part of Birmingham
Shadow justice secretary criticised for suggesting he could tell how integrated Handsworth was based on 90-minute visit
Robert Jenrick complained about visiting an area of Birmingham where he “didn’t see another white face” and said it was not the kind of country he wanted to live in.
After highlighting the lack of white people, the shadow justice secretary said it was not about “the colour of your skin or your faith” and he wanted people to live alongside each other. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
October 7, 2025 at 7:06 AM
Not very long ago, this would have meant the end of his career.
And there is *always* a tweet isn’t there
October 5, 2025 at 4:38 PM
And there is *always* a tweet isn’t there
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For a U.K. equivalent, it’s like sending troops to war-ravaged Bath.
Leavitt: "President Trump will end the radical left's reign of terror in Portland once and for all. The president has directed Secretary Hegseth to provide all necessary troops to protect war-ravaged Portland."
October 3, 2025 at 7:43 PM
For a U.K. equivalent, it’s like sending troops to war-ravaged Bath.
Accidentally got voted in as our trades council president… I say accidentally, I didn’t put myself up for it. However, I categorically will be stepping up to it
August 27, 2025 at 7:04 PM
Accidentally got voted in as our trades council president… I say accidentally, I didn’t put myself up for it. However, I categorically will be stepping up to it
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Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.
Grangetown (Cardiff) Council By-Election Result:
🌍 GRN: 24.0% (+5.5)*
🌹 LAB: 22.7% (-24.8)
🌼 PLC: 18.7% (+0.2)*
➡️ RFM: 14.5% (New)
🐉 PRO: 9.6% (+0.1)
🙋 Ind: 4.6% (-2.1)
🌳 CON: 4.1% (-8.4)
🔶 LDM: 1.8% (-2.1)
No Ind (-1.4) as previous.
*joint cand. in 2024.
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
🌍 GRN: 24.0% (+5.5)*
🌹 LAB: 22.7% (-24.8)
🌼 PLC: 18.7% (+0.2)*
➡️ RFM: 14.5% (New)
🐉 PRO: 9.6% (+0.1)
🙋 Ind: 4.6% (-2.1)
🌳 CON: 4.1% (-8.4)
🔶 LDM: 1.8% (-2.1)
No Ind (-1.4) as previous.
*joint cand. in 2024.
Green GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2024.
August 15, 2025 at 7:58 AM
Can't wait for the wall-to-wall media coverage of What This Means, the endless thinkpieces about Green Party dominance in a working class community meaning Labour has to take their concerns seriously and pivot towards them, you know like we'd get if Reform had won.
Here to remind you on this sad day that Norman Tebbit once called me a “Rent-a-gob Yob” in the Telegraph and it was undoubtedly my parents’ proudest moment
July 8, 2025 at 1:23 PM
Here to remind you on this sad day that Norman Tebbit once called me a “Rent-a-gob Yob” in the Telegraph and it was undoubtedly my parents’ proudest moment
Loving that I read about a dozen pages of this and declared it shit.
Penniless and homeless, Raynor and Moth Winn found fame with their story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. The Salt Path became a global bestseller and was adapted into a major film.
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
Read more:
But we can reveal it wasn’t the whole truth.
@chloehadj.bsky.social
Read more:
The real Salt Path: how the couple behind a bestseller le...
Penniless and homeless, the Winns found fame and fortune with the story of their 630-mile walk to salvation. We can reveal it was far from the truth
observer.co.uk
July 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Loving that I read about a dozen pages of this and declared it shit.
I’m hosting a crowdfund for a family in Gaza. Poor Sham is only 2 and suffering with hunger ir struggling with the canned water. Please gelp where you can. Flour is extortionate chuffed.org/project/1358...
Food and Medicine for Sham and Zainab
Hi My name is Zainab from besieged Gaza (land, sea and air). My family consists of three members. I am 26 years old and my little girl is a year and a half old. My daughter suffers from skin rashes ev...
chuffed.org
July 6, 2025 at 8:22 AM
I’m hosting a crowdfund for a family in Gaza. Poor Sham is only 2 and suffering with hunger ir struggling with the canned water. Please gelp where you can. Flour is extortionate chuffed.org/project/1358...
Absolutely dire photo with iPhone through binos but there’s a hoopoe on our neighbour’s front lawn! @jannerbirder.bsky.social Posted it in FB SOS too
June 7, 2025 at 11:34 AM
Absolutely dire photo with iPhone through binos but there’s a hoopoe on our neighbour’s front lawn! @jannerbirder.bsky.social Posted it in FB SOS too
So completely different because Morgan McSweeney asked ChatGPT to rewrite it
Starmer’s migration speech ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s, says Yvette Cooper
Starmer’s migration speech ‘completely different’ to Enoch Powell’s, says Yvette Cooper
Home secretary says PM talked about strength in diversity, after criticism from MPs over ‘island of strangers’ rhetoric
The home secretary, Yvette Cooper, has said the prime minister’s words were “completely different” to those used by Enoch Powell in his infamous rivers of blood speech, amid criticism within the party of the rhetoric used to launch the government’s immigration crackdown.
A number of MPs criticised Keir Starmer when he said the UK risked becoming “an island of strangers” if steps were not taken to address integration. Speaking on Tuesday, Cooper said that Starmer had also praised the contribution of migrants. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
May 13, 2025 at 9:40 AM
So completely different because Morgan McSweeney asked ChatGPT to rewrite it
I’ve just been to a party where my 2 worlds of major interest collided! I was taken and shown an iguanodon fossil footprint by one attendee and then sat down for a long chat with the BBC’s industrial correspondent from throughout the miner’s strike! My Sunday was better than yours
May 4, 2025 at 8:07 PM
I’ve just been to a party where my 2 worlds of major interest collided! I was taken and shown an iguanodon fossil footprint by one attendee and then sat down for a long chat with the BBC’s industrial correspondent from throughout the miner’s strike! My Sunday was better than yours