Howie
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Howie
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Retired, jack of all trades.
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Disability rights campaigner has to quit her job - because the DWP cut her support

Jess Thom has been forced to step down from her role at Touretteshero because the DWP cut her Access To Work funding by over 60%
www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
Disability rights campaigner has to quit her job - because the DWP cut her support
Jess Thom has been forced to step down from her role at Touretteshero because the DWP cut her Access To Work funding by over 60%
www.thecanary.co
May 28, 2025 at 10:59 AM
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Vote against Drax on June 2nd

Let’s stop subsidising this con & stop our government investing in other fake solutions like Carbon capture & storage & SAF

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May 29, 2025 at 7:39 AM
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Superb graphic sent to us, help share it.
May 29, 2025 at 5:55 AM
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Maybe worth having a read of this again... 🙌
The silencing of Sangita Myska matters
Why has Sangita Myska (LBC) not been on the air since interviewing Israeli Government spokesman, Avi Hyman, in April?
sussexbylines.co.uk
May 29, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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May 25, 2025 at 4:08 PM
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chasemycreations
Harvard is giving petty with a PHD ... Offering free courses on the Constitution, government systems, and how to recognize a dictatorship right in the midst of rising political tensions is like the academic version of subtweeting and I’m so here for it....
May 25, 2025 at 4:53 PM
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We should have been more like Norway. Look where prioritising amassing personal wealth has got the average Brit.🤔
🇳🇴 Norway took its oil wealth and built the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund — investing in pensions, healthcare, and the future.

🇬🇧 Britain sold ours off in the 1980s, handed control to private corporations, and spent the revenues on short-term tax cuts.
May 26, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Me everyday!
April 11, 2025 at 4:39 PM
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It's time Starmer grew some courage and told the US State Department to go away.
🧵 As the United States prepared to implement economically damaging tariffs on every country in the world, on Sunday the US State Department implied that UK safe access zones around abortion clinics could be a barrier to a future free trade deal with the UK. humanists.uk/2025/04/02/h...
How US-funded anti-abortion activism in the UK now threatens US-UK trade deal
US-funded anti-abortion activity has been growing in recent years. But this week it has exploded onto the front pages as it is now reportedly threatening the UK getting a trade deal with the US. A UK-...
humanists.uk
April 4, 2025 at 4:15 PM
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Breaking now: Ministry of Economics reporting the tariffs have not caused significant changes to our trading volumes
April 3, 2025 at 6:33 PM
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April 3, 2025 at 9:57 PM
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Getting some Data vibes with this.
April 4, 2025 at 6:00 PM
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BREAKING: The Government has just unveiled a crackdown on benefits to save £5bn by 2030.

In contrast, just a 2% tax on assets over £10m could raise up to £24 BILLION. We know what choice we’d make.
March 18, 2025 at 3:47 PM
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🔥 A new Left-Right scale of MPs has been published.

All MPs are mapped... the most left wing being Nadia Whittome and the most right wing being Suella Braverman.

This was all based on a new approach by Royal Holloway & Survation -- using 1,000 councillors to answer pair-wise comparisons of MPs.
How ‘left’ is your MP? A new picture
A new and original study has mapped our MPs on a left-right scale. What does it tell us about the people who govern us, in the East and nationally?
eastangliabylines.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 6:37 PM
Always my favourite thing when academics do the hard work to prove the thing your gut already knew to be clear and true.
Misinformation isn't random - it's strategic. 🧵

In the first cross-national comparative study, we examine 32M tweets from politicians.

We find that misinformation is not a general condition: it is driven by populist radical right parties.

with @julianachueri.bsky.social
doi.org/10.1177/1940...
January 16, 2025 at 12:37 PM
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“victory for patient safety: our case against GMC over their failure to properly regulate Associates is heading straight to High Court”
Anaesthetists United

Why is Gov’t using tax payers money to fight against national rules about what physician associate’s can & can’t do?
youtu.be/T-BDHQop1zk?...
A shocking revelation in the #PhysicianAssociates scandal - hold onto your seats
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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January 16, 2025 at 7:39 AM
If you read only one poem today, make it this one. You get extra credit for reading it out loud.
January 11, 2025 at 5:02 PM