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These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base
🚨This is not what I expect from a Labour government
THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England
youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...
THESE SHOCKING cuts are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child - the Adoption & Special Guardianship Support Fund is a lifeline for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England
youtu.be/7roDSM-GPBY?...
Devastating cuts for some of most vulnerable children in England is not what I expect from Labour
YouTube video by Peter Stefanovic
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November 9, 2025 at 10:12 AM
These unconscionable cuts to a vital lifeline fund for some of the most vulnerable children & young adults in England are staggering - a 60% reduction from £7.5K to just £3K per child & even worse - these changes were introduced by the government without consultation, warning and no evidence base
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1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
November 9, 2025 at 9:23 AM
1/ The US Government has quietly removed a memorial to Black soldiers who died in World War II from the Netherlands American Cemetery in Margraten, South Limburg. The move follows a complaint from the right-wing Heritage Foundation to the American Battle Monuments Commission. ⬇️
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Here are the two plaques that were removed. I am so ashamed of our racist current administration.
November 9, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Here are the two plaques that were removed. I am so ashamed of our racist current administration.
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Lord Wood did not clap Betty just now at the end of tonight's programme. Seems a bit mean to me.
November 5, 2025 at 11:04 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Lord Wood did not clap Betty just now at the end of tonight's programme. Seems a bit mean to me.
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On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
October 31, 2025 at 5:57 PM
On the left, the refurbished Lincoln bathroom. On the right, picture I took in Saddam Hussein's palace in Basra in 2005.
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This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
Interactive: explore England’s new deprivation map
Data analysis reveals ‘cheek by jowl’ inequalities in first study of country’s disadvantaged areas since pandemic
www.ft.com
October 31, 2025 at 7:21 AM
This is absolutely fascinating: you can put your postcode in and see relative levels of deprivation (and the opposite) where you live in detail. I live where I grew up, so I could spend days doing this as I know the town so well. www.ft.com/content/9a1c... Huge congrats to @amyborrett.ft.com et al.
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One was on LBC yesterday saying she'd been at the Reform conference and hopes to be a Reform MP one day. But nobody seems to be picking this up!
October 23, 2025 at 11:54 AM
One was on LBC yesterday saying she'd been at the Reform conference and hopes to be a Reform MP one day. But nobody seems to be picking this up!
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Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
October 20, 2025 at 2:06 PM
Humanist Bertrand Russell's perfect, utterly uncompromising 1962 letter declining Oswald Mosley's invitation to lunch. An perennial joy to see this circulating online from time to time.
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More of this across the board from politicians please. You can disagree with @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk on issues, but you have to admit they are the only ones actually taking the rhetoric, fully and uncompromisingly, on immigration back from Reform.
October 16, 2025 at 6:03 PM
More of this across the board from politicians please. You can disagree with @zackpolanski.bsky.social and the @greenparty.org.uk on issues, but you have to admit they are the only ones actually taking the rhetoric, fully and uncompromisingly, on immigration back from Reform.
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The government says it is “driving forward private finance efforts for Gaza's reconstruction.”
As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.
Have they no shame?
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.
Have they no shame?
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
'No shame': UK invites private firms to compete for Gaza reconstruction contracts
As Britain positions itself as key player in the rebuilding of territory devastated by Israel's genocide, MPs point to its role in its destruction
www.middleeasteye.net
October 15, 2025 at 6:05 PM
The government says it is “driving forward private finance efforts for Gaza's reconstruction.”
As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.
Have they no shame?
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
As if enabling a genocide wasn't enough. Now, they are allowing private companies to make some money out of it as well.
Have they no shame?
www.middleeasteye.net/news/british...
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Traitors on 6 o'clock news- really?! Trust you won't be plugging it.
October 8, 2025 at 5:02 PM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Traitors on 6 o'clock news- really?! Trust you won't be plugging it.
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I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
October 7, 2025 at 6:24 PM
I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them
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Vicars, grannies, blind people, those in wheelchairs all being physically carried away by police, one at a time after their rights are read… All for holding a placard.
…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.
…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.
October 5, 2025 at 4:45 PM
Vicars, grannies, blind people, those in wheelchairs all being physically carried away by police, one at a time after their rights are read… All for holding a placard.
…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.
…instead of the police being used to stop rape, burglary, domestic violence and theft. This farce has to break, surely.
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The Tories demonstrating one of the key features of free speech: the right to free speech is not the right to an audience.
The Conservative Party Conference today is currently hosting a debate on “Free Speech”. The Times report 55 people in attendance.
October 5, 2025 at 4:59 PM
The Tories demonstrating one of the key features of free speech: the right to free speech is not the right to an audience.
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I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
October 1, 2025 at 10:27 PM
I have watched his bit and the bit after Kuenssberg asks the question about 20 times and my ribs hurt.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
Janey, Janey, Janey, still making me laugh from beyond.
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Their daughter, Gladys, later married a descendant of French Huguenots called Harry Farage... and Gladys and Harry are the grandparents of this man.
Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3
Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3
September 22, 2025 at 10:15 AM
Their daughter, Gladys, later married a descendant of French Huguenots called Harry Farage... and Gladys and Harry are the grandparents of this man.
Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3
Maybe someone should ask him who of his ancestors he'd have liked to deport. 3/3
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Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw
Disney’s Message To Employees: Shut Your Trap
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September 19, 2025 at 6:13 AM
Awesome opening to tonight's The Late Show with Stephen Colbert... youtu.be/HMGD1KCYFOw
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Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
September 15, 2025 at 11:15 AM
Written by a doctor at St Thomas' Hospital, London after the Tommy Robinson march on 13/9.
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This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
September 11, 2025 at 3:19 PM
This happened in full view of Sky News cameras and a bunch of police just standing there. Why is THIS not on the news all day? Why don't we show people what these thugs are turning the country into? I could only find it on the far right TikTok page that proudly boasted about the incident. SHARE!
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Military aircraft flying at speed over London SE18 this morning at 10am. From the sound appeared to be going in SE direction.
September 10, 2025 at 9:47 AM
@bbcnewsnight.bsky.social Military aircraft flying at speed over London SE18 this morning at 10am. From the sound appeared to be going in SE direction.
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Ice cubes in beer: is this popular pub order atrocious – or ingenious?
Ice cubes in beer: is this popular pub order atrocious – or ingenious?
A new survey has found that more than a quarter of adults under 35 commit the sin of dilution to keep their pint cool. Is this alarming new trend here to stay?
www.theguardian.com
September 2, 2025 at 3:14 PM
Ice cubes in beer: is this popular pub order atrocious – or ingenious?