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This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition calling for a UK boycott now: 38d.gs/aba_
Sign the petition: tell the BBC to boycott Eurovision unless Israel is banned
This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bos...
38d.gs
December 5, 2025 at 5:38 PM
This is big: Spain, Ireland and the Netherlands have all pulled out of Eurovision, because Israel have been allowed to enter. We need the BBC to do the same to up the pressure on the competition's bosses. Sign the petition calling for a UK boycott now: 38d.gs/aba_
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Are you happy to let aristocrats and tech billionaires speak for you? If so, you'll love our new report in the Guardian on money, the media, and the House of Lords 👇
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
‘Unelected power’ of ultra-rich is reshaping British politics, report claims
Equality Trust study shows how House of Lords appointments, big donations and media concentration affects political decision
Structural corruption and the rise of “conduits for unelected power” are reshaping British politics, according to a stark report from the Equality Trust.
Unelected influence has surged over the past two decades, the report claims, driven by the growing political clout of the ultra-rich and the institutions that enable it. Continue reading...
www.theguardian.com
November 27, 2025 at 5:01 PM
Are you happy to let aristocrats and tech billionaires speak for you? If so, you'll love our new report in the Guardian on money, the media, and the House of Lords 👇
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😡 After the total failure of PFI in the NHS last time, the government is exploring it again!!
We can’t let history repeat itself. Here’s why PFI was abandoned — and why t’s a huge risk:
➡️ bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
We can’t let history repeat itself. Here’s why PFI was abandoned — and why t’s a huge risk:
➡️ bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
November 26, 2025 at 7:55 PM
😡 After the total failure of PFI in the NHS last time, the government is exploring it again!!
We can’t let history repeat itself. Here’s why PFI was abandoned — and why t’s a huge risk:
➡️ bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
We can’t let history repeat itself. Here’s why PFI was abandoned — and why t’s a huge risk:
➡️ bit.ly/Why-PFI-Aban...
The Elections Bill is being drafted as we speak. This is our big chance to win reforms that will protect our democracy. Please can you invite your MP to our parliamentary drop-in?
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/182076/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/182076/...
Elections Bill event
The Elections Bill is being drafted as we speak. This is our big chance to win reforms that will protect our democracy. Please can you invite your MP to our parliamentary drop-in?
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk
November 20, 2025 at 12:15 PM
The Elections Bill is being drafted as we speak. This is our big chance to win reforms that will protect our democracy. Please can you invite your MP to our parliamentary drop-in?
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/182076/...
secure.unlockdemocracy.org.uk/page/182076/...
Workers bled dry. Alienated. Mentally stressed. From Thatcher-Blair, cheering the 'filthy rich', through 'light touch' regulation to crash, Tory austerity, and fabulous pickings for the greedy. Yet Labour blinkers still on, so out of touch. Well said Sharon
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
Labour just doesn’t get it: workers feel poorer than ever. Is it any wonder Reform is rising? | Sharon Graham
Until the government starts tacking in a radically new direction, it will continue crashing in the polls. It could – and must – act differently, says Sharon Graham, general secretary of Unite
www.theguardian.com
September 30, 2025 at 10:04 AM
Workers bled dry. Alienated. Mentally stressed. From Thatcher-Blair, cheering the 'filthy rich', through 'light touch' regulation to crash, Tory austerity, and fabulous pickings for the greedy. Yet Labour blinkers still on, so out of touch. Well said Sharon
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Explore our interactive data dashboard to discover exactly who owns and profits from Britain’s essential services. 🔗👇
Data Dashboard | Who Owns Britain
An interactive Data Dashboard exploring who owns and profits from Britain’s essential services.
www.common-wealth.org
September 18, 2025 at 8:07 AM
Explore our interactive data dashboard to discover exactly who owns and profits from Britain’s essential services. 🔗👇
Three problems in understanding intelligence
No conceptual track for its evolution;
No agreed characterization of its form/function
No agreed basis of its variation
Tackled in my latest now online, print issue to follow
doi.org/10.1159/0005...
No conceptual track for its evolution;
No agreed characterization of its form/function
No agreed basis of its variation
Tackled in my latest now online, print issue to follow
doi.org/10.1159/0005...
Intelligence, from origins to human culture: An eco-evolutionary perspective
Abstract. The nature of intelligence remains scientifically poorly understood and the subject of many disagreements both biologically and psychologically. Its true form, the nature of its variation an...
doi.org
September 11, 2025 at 8:17 PM
Three problems in understanding intelligence
No conceptual track for its evolution;
No agreed characterization of its form/function
No agreed basis of its variation
Tackled in my latest now online, print issue to follow
doi.org/10.1159/0005...
No conceptual track for its evolution;
No agreed characterization of its form/function
No agreed basis of its variation
Tackled in my latest now online, print issue to follow
doi.org/10.1159/0005...
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Reading this and trying to take in the full enormity of what is happening. The scale of it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
Grand Designs: the loss of American freedom
Exactly seven months into Trump's second term, we have reached 1000 authoritarian actions. Here I lay out the enormity of what has happened.
open.substack.com
August 21, 2025 at 8:30 PM
Reading this and trying to take in the full enormity of what is happening. The scale of it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...
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Patrick Sullivan is a leading psychiatric genetic researcher. Yet his website states,
"...specific genes that have a causal role in [schizophrenia] have yet to be identified."
50 years of failed searches for what EF Torrey called a "psychiatric yeti."
www.med.unc.edu/genetics/dir...
"...specific genes that have a causal role in [schizophrenia] have yet to be identified."
50 years of failed searches for what EF Torrey called a "psychiatric yeti."
www.med.unc.edu/genetics/dir...
August 15, 2025 at 2:38 PM
Patrick Sullivan is a leading psychiatric genetic researcher. Yet his website states,
"...specific genes that have a causal role in [schizophrenia] have yet to be identified."
50 years of failed searches for what EF Torrey called a "psychiatric yeti."
www.med.unc.edu/genetics/dir...
"...specific genes that have a causal role in [schizophrenia] have yet to be identified."
50 years of failed searches for what EF Torrey called a "psychiatric yeti."
www.med.unc.edu/genetics/dir...
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“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
Auschwitz-survivor Gabor Maté: Gaza genocide 'the worst thing I've seen in my whole life.'
“It's a bit of an obscenity that I'm asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren't we listening t...
therealnews.com
August 12, 2025 at 8:02 PM
“It’s a bit of an obscenity that I’m asked so much to speak on this subject because I happen to be Jewish and because I happened, as an infant, to have survived the Holocaust…Why aren’t we listening to the Palestinians?”
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The deliberate and relentless killing of Palestinian journalists is sickening beyond words — and is a desperate attempt to silence the truth about Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity.
Shame on all those who empowered Israel to murder with impunity.
Shame on all those who empowered Israel to murder with impunity.
August 11, 2025 at 7:48 AM
The deliberate and relentless killing of Palestinian journalists is sickening beyond words — and is a desperate attempt to silence the truth about Israel’s ongoing crimes against humanity.
Shame on all those who empowered Israel to murder with impunity.
Shame on all those who empowered Israel to murder with impunity.
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
#TaxTheBanks
Years of higher interest rates have sent our rent, mortgage, and debt payments soaring, while banks have raked in huge profits for doing absolutely nothing.
The big four UK banks (Barclays, HSBC, Ll...
you.38degrees.org.uk
August 4, 2025 at 2:14 PM
Banks are making record profits while our bills go up! 😡 We need to tax bank profits and fund our NHS & schools. Sign the petition and tell Rachel Reeves to #TaxtheBanks you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...
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Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
July 29, 2025 at 5:02 PM
Palestinian statehood is not a bargaining chip.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
It is not a threat.
It is an inalienable right of the Palestinian people.
Our demands on this shameful government remain the same: end all arms sales to Israel, impose widespread sanctions, and stop the genocide, now.
There's been a lot of myths and misinformation flying around about a #WealthTax.
Here's the truth about the 5 most common myths from @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...
Here's the truth about the 5 most common myths from @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...
Debunking 5 common myths about wealth taxes - Tax Justice UK
The truth about the five most common myths - from the rich will leave to assets can't be valued - being used to stop a wealth tax in the UK.
taxjustice.uk
July 25, 2025 at 3:49 PM
There's been a lot of myths and misinformation flying around about a #WealthTax.
Here's the truth about the 5 most common myths from @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...
Here's the truth about the 5 most common myths from @taxjusticeuk.bsky.social
taxjustice.uk/blog/debunki...
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July 24, 2025 at 11:27 AM
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Please sign and re-post!!!
July 19, 2025 at 1:06 PM
Please sign and re-post!!!
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A leading anti-hereditarian thinker and writer has passed away. A great man who will be missed. His work lives on, such as the classic 1984 book he co-wrote which influenced me greatly, "Not in Our Genes."
Steven Rose was a neuroscientist and critic of genetic determinist views of human behaviour; he was also a founder member of the now defunct British Society for Social Responsbility in Science (which perhaps needs to be resurrected…) www.theguardian.com/science/2025...
Steven Rose obituary
Neuroscientist, author, political activist and advocate for social responsibility in science
www.theguardian.com
July 10, 2025 at 7:43 PM
A leading anti-hereditarian thinker and writer has passed away. A great man who will be missed. His work lives on, such as the classic 1984 book he co-wrote which influenced me greatly, "Not in Our Genes."
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My new Substack post:
"The Missing Heritability Problem is a Twin Study Misinterpretation Problem: Comments on Scott Alexander’s 'Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know.'"
jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-missin...
"The Missing Heritability Problem is a Twin Study Misinterpretation Problem: Comments on Scott Alexander’s 'Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know.'"
jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-missin...
July 6, 2025 at 5:38 PM
My new Substack post:
"The Missing Heritability Problem is a Twin Study Misinterpretation Problem: Comments on Scott Alexander’s 'Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know.'"
jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-missin...
"The Missing Heritability Problem is a Twin Study Misinterpretation Problem: Comments on Scott Alexander’s 'Missing Heritability: Much More Than You Wanted to Know.'"
jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/the-missin...
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Yes, as I and others have documented, there's a lot of history re-writing done by IQ hereditarians and other genetic determinists (TBC = The Bell Curve [1994 book]; B/W = supposed U.S. Black-White mean IQ score group differences).
July 1, 2025 at 10:08 PM
Yes, as I and others have documented, there's a lot of history re-writing done by IQ hereditarians and other genetic determinists (TBC = The Bell Curve [1994 book]; B/W = supposed U.S. Black-White mean IQ score group differences).
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Challenging the Billionaire Takeover: Building the international movement for people and planet
📆 Sat 5 July, 11am - 3.15pm
📍Augustine United Church, EH1 1EL
Book here: bit.ly/4e2ES6O
📢With Global Justice Now Director, Nick Dearden & trade campaigner Seema Syeda
🙋🏽♂Talks, workshops & a free lunch🥖🥒🍰
📆 Sat 5 July, 11am - 3.15pm
📍Augustine United Church, EH1 1EL
Book here: bit.ly/4e2ES6O
📢With Global Justice Now Director, Nick Dearden & trade campaigner Seema Syeda
🙋🏽♂Talks, workshops & a free lunch🥖🥒🍰
June 16, 2025 at 1:42 PM
Challenging the Billionaire Takeover: Building the international movement for people and planet
📆 Sat 5 July, 11am - 3.15pm
📍Augustine United Church, EH1 1EL
Book here: bit.ly/4e2ES6O
📢With Global Justice Now Director, Nick Dearden & trade campaigner Seema Syeda
🙋🏽♂Talks, workshops & a free lunch🥖🥒🍰
📆 Sat 5 July, 11am - 3.15pm
📍Augustine United Church, EH1 1EL
Book here: bit.ly/4e2ES6O
📢With Global Justice Now Director, Nick Dearden & trade campaigner Seema Syeda
🙋🏽♂Talks, workshops & a free lunch🥖🥒🍰
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Well before initiating the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA) in 1979, psychologist Thomas Bouchard believed that human intelligence "is largely under genetic control." The MISTRA results were later p-hacked to confirm this belief. jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/a-reevalua...
June 8, 2025 at 3:34 PM
Well before initiating the Minnesota Study of Twins Reared Apart (MISTRA) in 1979, psychologist Thomas Bouchard believed that human intelligence "is largely under genetic control." The MISTRA results were later p-hacked to confirm this belief. jayjoseph22.substack.com/p/a-reevalua...
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"The UK is now trapped in a pincer movement: on one flank, tech-giant lobbying seeks to erode the state’s capacity to regulate; on the other, these same corporations are inching ever deeper into essential public services."
🔴Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Must read from Foxglove's Rosa
Curling on why Starmer's faith in Big Tech is dangerously misguided
New on Democracy for Sale:
democracyforsale.substack.com/p/starmers-b...
Starmer’s Big Tech lobbying problem
Palantir is not just selling software—it’s selling a model of governance where corporate power replaces public control, writes Foxglove's Rosa Curling.
democracyforsale.substack.com
May 17, 2025 at 8:29 PM
"The UK is now trapped in a pincer movement: on one flank, tech-giant lobbying seeks to erode the state’s capacity to regulate; on the other, these same corporations are inching ever deeper into essential public services."
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Reform backers are importing the US’s ‘big money’ playbook to UK politics
Reform backers are importing the US’s ‘big money’ playbook to UK politics
Great British PAC wants to unite the right. To do so, it hopes to Americanise UK politics with help of donors like Elon Musk
bit.ly
April 17, 2025 at 1:40 PM
Reform backers are importing the US’s ‘big money’ playbook to UK politics
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“Where the original Enlightenment championed reason, equality, and democracy, the Dark Enlightenment preaches in-equality, elitism, and autocracy…If one truly believes that human groups differ vastly in innate intelligence or “aptitude,” the egalitarian premise of democracy looks fatally flawed”
How Nazi Race Science Conquered the White House, and is Coming for Your Democracy
One of the major ‘Dark Enlightenment’ influencers has stepped into the light, talking of the 'negro problem'. Nafeez Ahmed explains how the Silicon Valley broligarchy has resurrected Nazi-inspired eug...
bylinetimes.com
April 5, 2025 at 10:04 AM
“Where the original Enlightenment championed reason, equality, and democracy, the Dark Enlightenment preaches in-equality, elitism, and autocracy…If one truly believes that human groups differ vastly in innate intelligence or “aptitude,” the egalitarian premise of democracy looks fatally flawed”