The concept Nigel Farage is incapable of grasping is human rights are universal - if we start stripping away basic human rights from any section of society then none of us has rights – just privileges that can be taken away by people in power whenever they want. I’ll fight that to my last breath

What do rock and roll pandas eat?

A wop bop a loo bop a wop bamboo

The world’s richest 1% have more wealth than the bottom 95% put together, according to Oxfam.

There is no moral justification for this extraordinary level of inequality.

It's distorting politics, rigging our markets, and granting unprecedented power to a handful of people.

Two genuinely irritating phrases:

"Nobody voted to leave the single market"

And its cousin,
"We should never have left the single market".

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YouTube video by Richard J Murphy The government's accounts are incomplete and out of date – so how can they govern properly?

The government's accounts are incomplete and out of date – so how can they govern properly? youtu.be/GKexJs1sMNA?... You need data to make decisions, and the government’s is misleading, at best. How can they hope to govern properly?

Palliative Care Doctor, Dr Rachel Clarke,

"There are thousands of people suffering unnecessary pain"

"We may be in a peculiar position where we have a state funded dying service but we don't have a state funded palliative care service"

1. The difference so far (and for god's sake let's keep it that way) between X and Bluesky is not between right and left but between abuse and respect.
A good society is built on mutual respect. But what does this mean?
A short thread.🧵

It's important to remember