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Julia Bolton
@jubnz.bsky.social
Kiwi living in the UK and muddling through
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70% of the additional spending from removing the two-child limit will go to families who are in work. This is targeting support for low-income working households who are being priced out of a decent standard of living despite doing everything asked of them.
November 27, 2025 at 4:38 PM
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"Compared with other European countries, the UK received the fifth largest number of asylum seekers in the year ending March 2025, and the seventeenth largest intake when measured per head of population" - Home Office data
www.gov.uk/government/s...
November 17, 2025 at 4:10 PM
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- In general, lockdown left lasting scars on society, and worsened existing inequalities
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November 20, 2025 at 4:26 PM
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By the end of January 2020, it should have been clear that the virus posed a "serious and immediate threat" and "urgent planning" should have started, it says. Instead, February 2020 is described as a “lost month” with life continuing almost as normal across the country.
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November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM
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I grant you this is not hugely surprising. But still.
November 20, 2025 at 4:23 PM
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Shocked.
November 20, 2025 at 4:30 PM