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This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".
Why should people who “look like” the home secretary be on the hook for immigration policy?
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
This is great by @stephenkb.bsky.social:
Defence of Labour asylum policy reveals backsliding on racism
Home secretary’s framing of failures is partly low politics, but also a result of ministers’ poor approach to race relations
www.ft.com
November 19, 2025 at 11:50 AM
This is very good indeed on how Mahmood talks about race. To suggest that immigration policy and racism are linked "reflects this government’s biggest failing, which is that it is essentially incapable of saying that racism is wrong, full stop".
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Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
Brexit Hit to UK Economy Double Official Estimate, Study Finds
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist.
bloom.bg
November 21, 2025 at 9:30 AM
Brexit has caused almost twice as much damage to the UK economy than estimated by official forecasts, according to new paper from a group of experts including a senior Bank of England economist
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First Past the Post cannot handle this level of fragmentation. It will produce completely freak results.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
5 parties on more than 12%, winner gains seat with under 30%. Results like this used to be rare, freak outliers. Now they are routine (there was a second just like this yesterday). Electoral chaos.
Newmarket East (West Suffolk) Council By-Election Result:
➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)
No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
➡️ RFM: 29.7% (New)
🌳 CON: 25.0% (+4.1)
🔶 LDM: 17.2% (-3.1)
🌹 LAB: 15.3% (-8.3)
🌍 GRN: 12.8% (New)
No WSI (-19.2) or Ind (-16.1) as previous.
Reform GAIN from Labour.
Changes w/ 2023.
September 12, 2025 at 8:07 AM
First Past the Post cannot handle this level of fragmentation. It will produce completely freak results.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
We can grasp this problem now, or wait for the train to crash.
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Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever
May 15, 2025 at 1:34 PM
Via @greenpeaceuk.bsky.social on insta, the most accurate use of this meme ever
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Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
May 12, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Incredibly depressing day. I've spent my entire life being told by British governments how dreadful immigration is. New Labour did it. The Coalition. The Brexiters. Now Starmer. All of them accusing the ones who came before them of failing to clamp down. The same old vacant mean-spirited bollocks.
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@independentsage.bsky.social are officially fed up to the back teeth of all the eejits posting outright nonsense about mRNA vaccines, especially those feckless morons currently destroying public health in the US...
So, we wrote another report. Hope it's helpful.
independentsage.org/report/demysti…
So, we wrote another report. Hope it's helpful.
independentsage.org/report/demysti…
https://independentsage.org/report/demysti…
May 1, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@independentsage.bsky.social are officially fed up to the back teeth of all the eejits posting outright nonsense about mRNA vaccines, especially those feckless morons currently destroying public health in the US...
So, we wrote another report. Hope it's helpful.
independentsage.org/report/demysti…
So, we wrote another report. Hope it's helpful.
independentsage.org/report/demysti…
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Just in case you are in any doubt that we are living under an authoritarian regime looking to lock up its critics
This should be the top story in Axios’s morning read. But it isn’t. It’s the FIFTH top story.
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
@axios.com
www.axios.com/2025/04/23/t...
April 23, 2025 at 8:33 PM
Just in case you are in any doubt that we are living under an authoritarian regime looking to lock up its critics
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Under rules introduced by Lansley reforms and built on by successive Govts, companies don't need contracts with NHS areas. Coupled with optometrist referrals it's an ideal model to "drive patient flow" to their clinics. @chpithinktank.bsky.social found 84k ops done without contracts in 3yrs
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has been called in to examine billing irregularities in the private cataract market, which has grown 400% since 2019. 131 private clinics have opened since 2019, with costs for the NHS doubling over the same period: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
Private cataract clinics investigated while making millions from NHS
Health service bosses fear price inflation and unnecessary operations are costing the taxpayer. Now a fraud unit is getting involved
www.thetimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 9:41 AM
Under rules introduced by Lansley reforms and built on by successive Govts, companies don't need contracts with NHS areas. Coupled with optometrist referrals it's an ideal model to "drive patient flow" to their clinics. @chpithinktank.bsky.social found 84k ops done without contracts in 3yrs
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5 companies have made £169 million in profit in just one year from providing eye care services to the NHS. That is more than is made each year (on average) by all 100 NHS PFI schemes. Read our latest report here covered in today's Sunday Times: www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...
April 20, 2025 at 7:59 AM
5 companies have made £169 million in profit in just one year from providing eye care services to the NHS. That is more than is made each year (on average) by all 100 NHS PFI schemes. Read our latest report here covered in today's Sunday Times: www.chpi.org.uk/reports/out-...
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Women are being forced down the private route for gynae care because of the underfunding of the NHS. The private sector knows this and so will turn it to their advantage including by raising prices. Our Director in today's Guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Women paying up to £11,000 for a hysterectomy amid NHS delays
Claims private sector taking advantage of long waits as cost of procedure rises sharply
www.theguardian.com
January 24, 2025 at 12:11 PM
Women are being forced down the private route for gynae care because of the underfunding of the NHS. The private sector knows this and so will turn it to their advantage including by raising prices. Our Director in today's Guardian. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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The @chpithinktank.bsky.social found 5 main companies were paid a total of £536m to carry out NHS cataract surgery in 2023-24, delivering a profit of £169m.
It's latest report reveals how companies have maximised income at expense of NHS without any oversight by it
It's latest report reveals how companies have maximised income at expense of NHS without any oversight by it
April 20, 2025 at 7:57 AM
The @chpithinktank.bsky.social found 5 main companies were paid a total of £536m to carry out NHS cataract surgery in 2023-24, delivering a profit of £169m.
It's latest report reveals how companies have maximised income at expense of NHS without any oversight by it
It's latest report reveals how companies have maximised income at expense of NHS without any oversight by it
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The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has been called in to examine billing irregularities in the private cataract market, which has grown 400% since 2019. 131 private clinics have opened since 2019, with costs for the NHS doubling over the same period: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
Private cataract clinics investigated while making millions from NHS
Health service bosses fear price inflation and unnecessary operations are costing the taxpayer. Now a fraud unit is getting involved
www.thetimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:08 AM
The NHS Counter Fraud Authority has been called in to examine billing irregularities in the private cataract market, which has grown 400% since 2019. 131 private clinics have opened since 2019, with costs for the NHS doubling over the same period: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
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🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
Private cataract clinics investigated while making millions from NHS
Health service bosses fear price inflation and unnecessary operations are costing the taxpayer. Now a fraud unit is getting involved
www.thetimes.com
April 20, 2025 at 6:59 AM
🚨 INVESTIGATION: Private clinics delivering NHS cataract surgery face investigation over claims they have artificially inflated costs for the taxpayer, performed unnecessary operations and incentivised high-street optometrists to refer patients to them: www.thetimes.com/article/245f...
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This is the essential problem: If one doesn't support Labour, then a Tory (and Reform?) Government is the consequence. The threshold for not supporting Labour should therefore be very high.
A ruling Reform/Tory coalition after GE 2029 would mean the end of the Labour party for all time. (R+T would come in with all the earlier Tory sins whitewashed away by Labour's 5 disastrous years.)
People will never forgive Labour the endless missed opportunities to take a different path instead.
People will never forgive Labour the endless missed opportunities to take a different path instead.
April 20, 2025 at 11:30 AM
This is the essential problem: If one doesn't support Labour, then a Tory (and Reform?) Government is the consequence. The threshold for not supporting Labour should therefore be very high.
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Children are among the NHS patients being denied access to revolutionary cancer drugs as a result of red tape and extra costs caused by Brexit, according to a report leaked to the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
‘Children with cancer cannot wait’: the human cost of clinical trial delays after Brexit
Exclusive: Price of importing drugs for a Paris and Birmingham study has almost quadrupled to £175,000
www.theguardian.com
April 20, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Children are among the NHS patients being denied access to revolutionary cancer drugs as a result of red tape and extra costs caused by Brexit, according to a report leaked to the Guardian
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
April 15, 2025 at 9:05 PM
I want to tell you why the case of Kilmar Abrego Garcia should matter to you.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
The one power you cannot give the executive is the ability to imprison or expel anyone regardless of their legal rights. That is our key check against autocracy. And we are watching it disappear.
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🧵 5. The Gish Gallop: How Bad-Faith Debaters Overwhelm, Confuse, and Win
They don’t argue to persuade.
They argue to bury you.
This is the Gish Gallop — a disinformation tactic disguised as debate.
Let’s break it down👇
#GishGallop #Disinformation #DebateTactics
They don’t argue to persuade.
They argue to bury you.
This is the Gish Gallop — a disinformation tactic disguised as debate.
Let’s break it down👇
#GishGallop #Disinformation #DebateTactics
April 16, 2025 at 7:44 AM
🧵 5. The Gish Gallop: How Bad-Faith Debaters Overwhelm, Confuse, and Win
They don’t argue to persuade.
They argue to bury you.
This is the Gish Gallop — a disinformation tactic disguised as debate.
Let’s break it down👇
#GishGallop #Disinformation #DebateTactics
They don’t argue to persuade.
They argue to bury you.
This is the Gish Gallop — a disinformation tactic disguised as debate.
Let’s break it down👇
#GishGallop #Disinformation #DebateTactics
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"Voters expect the Prime Minister to come away with more than just a defence pact when he hosts EU leaders in May and want him to prioritise removing trade barriers in the interests of bringing costs down and getting growth. " @pimlicat.bsky.social on our new polling.
Trade trumps defence in Brits ambitions for EU reset
As the Prime Minister prepares to host EU leaders next month, a major new poll reveals that improving trade with Britain’s largest market is the public’s top priority.
buff.ly
April 12, 2025 at 8:00 PM
"Voters expect the Prime Minister to come away with more than just a defence pact when he hosts EU leaders in May and want him to prioritise removing trade barriers in the interests of bringing costs down and getting growth. " @pimlicat.bsky.social on our new polling.
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Children have particular rights under both US and international law. When you disappear children, lock them up, and deny them access to their parents, legal counsel and education, that place is no longer a "detention center." It is a concentration camp.
Sackets Harbor, NY is so small that there’s one pre k-12 school with 475 students. Three of those students were disappeared by ICE.
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
Here is a statement published today by school principal Jaime Cook:
April 5, 2025 at 9:31 PM
Children have particular rights under both US and international law. When you disappear children, lock them up, and deny them access to their parents, legal counsel and education, that place is no longer a "detention center." It is a concentration camp.
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Govt is getting rid of NHS England.. the @instituteforgov.bsky.social back catalogue has a couple of top studies by @nicholastimmins.bsky.social on its creation and functioning www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/... and www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
Never Again? The story of the Health and Social Care Act 2012 | Institute for Government
The story of how the Health and Social Care Act 2012 – by far the most controversial piece of NHS legislation in more than two decades – became law.
www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk
March 13, 2025 at 12:19 PM
Govt is getting rid of NHS England.. the @instituteforgov.bsky.social back catalogue has a couple of top studies by @nicholastimmins.bsky.social on its creation and functioning www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/... and www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/publication/...
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The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
Donate to Ukraine’s defenders
The National Bank of Ukraine has decided to open a special fundraising account to support the Armed Forces of Ukraine.
war.ukraine.ua
February 28, 2025 at 7:26 PM
The Ukrainian government has a list of places where you can donate to the war effort here. I personally just donated $100: war.ukraine.ua/donate/
Slava Ukraini.
Slava Ukraini.
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This is a very well reasoned and worded complaint. Predictably, the response makes no attempt to address what it says
January 22, 2025 at 4:51 PM
This is a very well reasoned and worded complaint. Predictably, the response makes no attempt to address what it says
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The idea that using the private sector adds genuine additional capacity to support the NHS is "utter nonsense" says our Director David Rowland. The private sector is entirely reliant on NHS doctors to do any operations. Without them it would collapse overnight www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
January 10, 2025 at 9:44 AM
The idea that using the private sector adds genuine additional capacity to support the NHS is "utter nonsense" says our Director David Rowland. The private sector is entirely reliant on NHS doctors to do any operations. Without them it would collapse overnight www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
January 9, 2025 at 12:44 PM
These extraordinary photos of the LA fires have been shared widely on social media, often without crediting the photographer.
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...
These are all the work of Ethan Swope, an LA-based photojournalist working for AP.
You can follow his remarkable reporting here👇
www.instagram.com/ethanswopeph...