Carl Purcell

Reform’s Sarah Pochin forced to apologise after claiming adverts 'full of black people' drive her 'mad’ | LBC The Runcorn and Helsby MP was responding to a viewer live on air who complained about the demographics of advertising.

Nothing on the BBC Radio news this morning. Nothing I could find on their website. This is an MP from the party whose lead in the opinion polls normally ensures them wall-to-wall coverage. She spouts racist nonsense for which even she feels obliged to apologise. What on earth are they playing at?

Let's not humour those advocating deportation of UK residents with reasons why their plans would not work.

Keep it simple, this is not the action of a civilised country.

If needed, this will mean complete chaos and destruction of international reputation.

Britain's Keir Starmer Is Running Out of Time The Labour government must start being bold and delivering quickly or it will keep haemorrhaging support, writes Anand Menon.

I wrote something for Time Magazine (that sounds so cool) on why the Government needs to get out of its defensive crouch quickly time.com/7326397/uk-s...

Am sending this to Mrs Tim, who (possibly because she's the most voracious reader of fiction I've ever met) would, I know, revert back to "chaotic evil" in a heartbeat were I ever to relax my eternal vigilance.

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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

'A true doyen of social work': the life and influence of Olive Stevenson - Community Care Professors David Howe, June Thoburn and Ray Jones reflect on Olive Stevenson's influence on the social work sector and their careers.

This day in social work history ⏳

30th September 2013: Olive Stevenson, social worker and academic, died. Stevenson was part of Maria Colwell inquiry, and was a founding editor of @BJofSW. See @CommunityCare recent tribute: www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/07/a...

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

My column in tomorrow's paper:

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

I think it’ll also turn off many of the lifelong Labour voters they want to attract

The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5

We've been made aware that some people taking part in racist protests targeting asylum seekers, refugees and migrants also claim to be working with us: this is false and we are appalled at the use of our name to promote something so completely at odds with our values.
Our statement: buff.ly/coxyenv

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

It’s incredibly notable today that Labour doesn’t want to say anything against the *aim* of Farage’s policies.

But: where has the government been all summer? Was there even an *attempt* to push any other political stories? Farage and the online right had a totally clear stage for immigration.

Are recent immigrants a "ticking time bomb" for British public finances? At a few recent policy events, I keep hearing that dependents on visas are a Problem.

Very important work by @lgilbert.co comprehensively dissecting and demolishing the myth spread by politicians and "thinktanks" that recent migrants are likely to be a drain on public finances.

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Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

We’re not racist but…

They told me everyone was on strike in the 1970s

There may come a day when the BBC puts on air one of the other 29,999 headteachers currently estimated to be working in UK schools, but that day is not today

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Our reflections on several decades of regulatory reform that have aimed to address failings in the provision of care for children and young people and develop the children's residential care workforce @hscwru.bsky.social
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Get on with ‘fixing’ social care this year. How?

This day in social work history ⏳

15th April 1912 - Campaigner Barbara Robb born in Yorkshire. Robb campaigned for rights of older people, was a founder of AGEIS, and editor of Sans Everything: A Case to Answer (1967), that included chapters and input from social workers.

Nigel Farage thinks it's OK for him to earn £571,585 in six months from 'second jobs', but tells Laura Kuenssberg that public sector staff should not be allowed to work from home.
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Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

There are those proposing conspiracy. There are those proposing cock-up. Always looking for middle-ground I propose cocked-up conspiracy.

A period of silence on his part would be much appreciated. His nice guy from planet fuck act long ago became tiresome.

What about for partying?