It's almost like being fabulously rich doesn't make you happy or well adjusted. It's almost like it makes you sad and lonely. And leaves you forever casting about for scapegoats to offset your deep self-loathing. Thank you Jim Ratcliffe and Elon Musk for these important life lessons.
Today, on Holocaust Memorial Day, we will remember the 6 million Jews killed by the Nazis and their collaborators during the Holocaust.
NEW: Suella Braverman has defected to Reform UK, shocking the many people who were sure that she had already.
Bluesky idea: if people who didn't agree with you change their opinions so that they do agree with you, why not be happy that you are making progress - rather than complaining that they are "only just catching up"?
At @instituteforgovernment.org.uk Wes Streeting says: "One of the great challenges...is how to reform the state and public services so they deliver for people"
"Failure in this area has led to disaffection, cynicism, and ultimately, the rise of populists."
What the war against London really is about. V good by @robertshrimsley.bsky.social #Giftlink
And on a different note: A v Happy New Year to everyone!
The mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ debate misses the point.
If the issue is managing the stresses and emotions of everyday life, Wes Streeting’s review gives the govt the opportunity to empower people to manage their mental health without clinical pathways:
labourlist.org/2025/12/ment...
The mental health ‘overdiagnosis’ debate misses the point.
If the issue is managing the stresses and emotions of everyday life, Wes Streeting’s review gives the govt the opportunity to empower people to manage their mental health without clinical pathways:
labourlist.org/2025/12/ment...
Critics will say that Labour’s trying to out-Reform Reform, but this kind of international collaboration feels a world apart from the obnoxious, Trumpian bullying and grandstanding we’d get from Farage.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
#ECHR #Labour #Reform
Normally a defender of the BBC and especially BBC News, but this comma splice is unacceptable.
In fairness, that person’s position is perfectly reasonable if you just ignore the New Testament and basically all Catholic Social Teaching.
“The tyrannical soul is never satisfied.”
— Plato, Republic
Interested in #religion, #philosophy, #ethics?
Come and join one of my @citylit.bsky.social courses! 💡
Interpreting the Bible: key skills and texts 📖
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Assisted dying: religion, ethics and the law ❔
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I’ll be reflecting on the need for our deputy leader to articulate a coherent Labour philosophy and vision as I cast my vote this week. #Labour #DeputyLeader #Election
“Yet this is the problem. Debate and intellectual discourse no longer define this Labour Party.”
Bingo - this is why @hannahmerich.bsky.social and I argue that our next deputy leader needs to change that in @labourlist.bsky.social:
labourlist.org/2025/09/labo...
Plato said it best: “Either philosophers must become rulers, or the people who are now rulers become real, true philosophers”
The Labour Party needs a deputy leader who will articulate a Labour philosophy and vision, to give this government a compelling narrative and vision for Britain:
I realise the audience for this would just be "me, and also maybe other foreigners" but I would love to read something on why Brits, who are happy to live in a country where their every movement outside is filmed by CCTV, hate the idea of having ID cards, something plenty of countries happily have
I'll have more to say on Reform's proposals to scrap ILR at some point but for now I'll just note this - anyone telling you this is a popular idea doesn't know the polling. Overwhelming majority of public back giving people who work and pay taxes most or all rights after 5 years or less
There’s a big list of requirements for @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and @lucympowell.bsky.social as Labour’s deputy leadership candidates!
@hannahmerich.bsky.social & I argue that central among them is giving this Labour govt a compelling story & vision, drawing on our rich history of ideas:
There’s a big list of requirements for @bphillipsonmp.bsky.social and @lucympowell.bsky.social as Labour’s deputy leadership candidates!
@hannahmerich.bsky.social & I argue that central among them is giving this Labour govt a compelling story & vision, drawing on our rich history of ideas:
Really enjoyed this evening’s @renewaljournal.bsky.social lecture from Anneliese Dodds.
She’s right that delivery in government is necessary but not sufficient. Labour must protect democracy and be a voice for humans in the age of AI.
#Labour #AI #democracy
“Men who look upon themselves born to reign, and others to obey, soon grow insolent; selected from the rest of mankind their minds are early poisoned by importance; ...and when they succeed to the government are frequently the most ignorant and unfit of any throughout the dominions.”
— Thomas Paine
It's maddening to me how much Covid is at the root of so many of today's crises and we just...don't talk about it?
Take the spike in children needing SEND provision. Did anything huge and traumatic happen recently that might have affected thousands of kids? No? Must be parents making it up
If MPs aren't 100% convinced that safeguards for vulnerable people are watertight, their obligation is to vote against the #TerminallyIllAdults Bill today. #AssistedDying
just saw a headline about "Britain's most woke roundabout" and I think I'm done
Please can we go back to those days?
Farage has made at least nine trips abroad, including eight to the US, since last year’s general election, with many of them either funded by donors or undertaken for paid employment such as speeches.
Just realised the 2015 UK general election was *10* years ago this week.
Wild that we dodged the bullet of chaos with @edmilibandmp.bsky.social and enjoyed a decade of uninterrupted stability and growth.
