Freelance med comms professional interested in politics, cycling, tech and keeping my son and heir happy; all opinions expressed are my own
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Or maybe racists shouldn’t racist spread lies on the internet. Maybe that had something to do with it too.
‘Sometimes just tell the public the truth and you might stop riots from happening!'
@Nigel_Farage believes if the police were more clear over the suspect's identity and downplayed the false rumours online the Southport riots may've been avoided.
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Christ you don’t usually have to wait this long for the French to set fire to something
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When you consider that only 7% of children attend private school, it’s pretty extraordinary that only now do we have the first ever government to come anywhere near representative of that proportion (slightly under at 4%).
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Freedom of movement was a precious gift - to work and travel and live and love in 27 other countries - we should be expanding the opportunity of people here to benefit from it not competing to rule out its return #BBCDebate
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If you want a good example of how power works in Britain, just consider how many broadsheet front pages are devoted to the relatively trifling problems of private schools by comparison to the day-to-day and long term problems faced by the state sector (where the vast majority of kids go).
‘Man in jacket’…. Thought I’d share my thoughts while staying polite to Mr Tice and Mr Davies. A very interesting evening!
Man in jacket, "Surely using Richard Tice's analogy, the way to stop the people smugglers is to make sure there are legal routes for people to come into the UK" #BBCQT
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“You can’t get rid of 12,000 cars!” claimed critics when in 2017, Eindhoven proposed the revolutionary transformation of Oirschotsedijk.
A former arterial road dissecting Philips de Jonghpark is now an accessible and delightful green space, reconnected by a 5.5 meter cycle path. – at Eindhoven, Nederland
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Here is @RishiSunak setting back the campaign for mental health parity at least a decade.
This is un-evidenced, performative cruelty.
It's disgusting.
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We have seen the failure of Tory levelling up, so in Manchester we have radical plans to help ourselves | Andy Burnham theguardian.com/commentisfre…
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They really have no clue about the voters they’ve won. Johnson is not an asset. You’re reminding these voters of a whole bunch of other reasons they’re annoyed at your party.
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Boris Johnson expected to campaign in Red Wall seats in run-up to general election after thawing in relations with Rishi Sunak
Johnson likely to be deployed in marginal seats and put on local leaflets as the Tories seek to win back disaffected voters
Number 10 and Johnson's team have held positive discussions in recent weeks about a role for the former prime minister
But don't expect Johnson and Sunak to appear on the same stage - some of the old enmities still run deep
thetimes.co.uk/article/827c8…
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EXCL: Rishi Sunak’s ‘buried’ report finds low-traffic neighbourhoods work and are popular - by @peterwalker99 theguardian.com/uk-news/2024…
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Rishi Sunak, "Our plan is working"
Sir Michael Marmot, "We're starting to suffer Victorian diseases.. Universal Credit pays 70% of the cost of essentials.. If you're on Universal Credit we guarantee you will get sick because we don't give you enough money to eat healthily, to heat your home"
"Britain has become a poor country with a few rich people.. It's worse to be poor in Britain than in most other European countries. Poor people in Britain have a lower income than Slovenia'"
“The land works the people and the people work the land. But does the subcutaneous bond between a parcel of land and a person have a value, or just market value? And if you take that away - take the family farm away - what does Britain look like then?”
Heather Wildman tours Britain helping farmers face up to the toughest of questions – not just about the future of their business, but about their family, their identity and even their mortality theguardian.com/environment/…
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About the same as killing a person with a car then.
🚨 JUST STOP OIL SUPPORTER GIVEN 6 MONTHS IN PRISON FOR MARCHING
⛓️ Stephen Gingell, 57, a business owner and father of three, was sentenced to 6 months in prison for marching after appearing in Manchester Magistrates Court yesterday.
🦺 Stephen was arrested on 13th November 2023 in London for peacefully marching for no more than 30 minutes with 40 other Just Stop Oil supporters. He was transferred to the court in Manchester for sentencing.
💬 A spokesperson from Lawyers are Responsible, a group of legal professionals, said: “This sentence demonstrates the increasingly repressive environment that people find themselves in when they take entirely peaceful action to express concern about the climate and ecological crisis. Our legal system has become completely detached from the real threat to our futures posed by the climate and ecological emergency. People should not be criminalised for standing up for our futures.”
💸 Support people like Stephen in nonviolent civil resistance — juststopoil.org/donate
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Turns out shipping fresh fruit and veg from Peru to the UK via narrow and dry Panama Canal (instead of from own continent) might mean empty shelves
Who knew ? 🤡
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In reality:
- Just 0.1% of Don Valley residents can't speak English
- Only 0.8% have lived in the UK less than five years
- Less than 6% are non-white
This is about blaming the government's failures on a tiny fraction of his own constituents. It is the politics of the far right
Nick Fletcher(Tory MP): "We are turning parts of our community into a ghetto... you have a 12 hour waiting list at A&E, & the reason why the waiting list is so long, is because people don't speak English in these places anymore..."
#RwandaPlan