Matt ML

This Labour Govt are just Cameron Tories

Honestly people seeming surprised that Popes and Cardinals hold homophobic views is exhausting

Its fascinating that the law apparently now trumps scientific biological fact. Once again, I am glad I did not vote for the cowards within this Labour government

No argument from me

It’s times like this when you realise how backwards the mainstream is… in almost every publications there’s articles about fascism and authoritarianism and autocracy… I feel gifted with foresight because I’ve seeing the signs for like 10 years and reading about it and I’m only a therapist in the UK

So they are apparently introducing anti-misogyny classes into schools. As you may imagine comments beneath are going all lives matter on this with “well it should misogyny and misandry”… heres my issue… both are wrong. Both should be combatted. One is far more deadly than the other

YouTube video by JimmyTheGiant How Austerity Broke Britain

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I think it helps to speak with Queer elders.
They have a wealth of experience and knowledge.

I used to say the Tories knew the cost of everything and the value of nothing. I believe the same can be said for the Labour Government as well

With every passing day I feel happier I did not vote Labour last July

So I am not remotely surprised by any of the recent announcements.

For about a year before the election last July, Labour consistently said they would be more competent and deliver. That was their message. They didn't say they would be competent and deliver a different program than the Tories. They said they would do what the Tories were doing but better...

Fascism Rising: Invisiblising the Other — Dwight Turner Counselling Well. It's here. Fascism is alive and well in the Global North. And we have welcomed it into our world again. This month's blog asks us to face up to our own responsibilities for its rise, and questio...

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YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic Why I Turned Down Working With Richard Dawkins

Some atheists can be assholes too

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YouTube video by Genetically Modified Skeptic Why the Anti-Woke Right Has So Many Atheists

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Labour reportedly drops major manifesto commitment for trans people Labour has reportedly axed plans to make it easier for trans people to legally change their gender, pulling a 180 on their manifesto promise.

I didn’t vote for Labour because I did not remotely believe they would stand up for LGBT+ folk beyond slogans and BS rhetoric. It’s always sad to be right time after time

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I just the most ADHD thing 😂 I got a bottle of Pepsi from the fridge and took it into the living room. Went back to the kitchen for something else then went back to the fridge to get my bottle of Pepsi to take into the living room...

Well America looks terrifying right now

I feel that the US do do therapy better in terms of how they view it and offer it compared to us in the UK. It definitely feels all down to money here and there ain't a good system on offer

I've seen 3 job adverts for talking therapies service in the NHS and they're offering person centred therapy for 8-12 sessions but only after you've done a person centred experiential counselling for depression course.

I'm very happy I get to do 20 sessions of person-centred therapy in my service

Also there's a chapter where he basically roasts the idea of shortening, manualised therapy like NICE-recommended therapies because they focus on techniques over the relationship and it made me happy

I am listening to Irvin Yalom’s new book and honestly I feel like I get so much closer to the essence of therapy than any actual textbook on the topic.

I think therapy, especially in the UK, needs to shift towards his type of books over expensive textbooks with their academic layouts

Also going Star Wars nerd for a moment: I keep seeing people say Jedi were not wiped out by Order 66 because these characters survived… if you go from 10,000 Jedi to like less than 100, I think that equals wiped out

British media: why are reform polling so high?

Me: because all you do is give a party with 5 MPs the same airtime and column inches as the official opposition with over 100 MPs. How does Farage get a call in session on LBC with 5 MPs.

Man who burned Quran 'shot dead in Sweden' Salwan Momika, 38, is reported to have been killed in an apartment in Södertälje, Stockholm.

Human beings have rights. Books, even 'holy' books, do not.

The only acceptable response to religiously motivated violence like this is for societies to reassert the importance of human rights, human lives, and freedom of expression.

#EndBlasphemyLaws everywhere! www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

First They Came Poem

Here is the original and then an attempted update many decades later!
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Imagine trying to claim you are an organisation that support women and the LGB against the T because you care about the LGB and Women's rights and then choose to support Trump, fascists and Reformers...

At no point, should a state be allowed to execute its own citizens for any reason other than the preservation of life so armed police defend themselves or civilians. That is why there should be strict rules and ethics around those choices. The death penalty should never be legal again in the UK.

I am always amused when those claiming to be Christian get mad then folks of the Cloth say Christ-like things about mercy and compassion and love.

Strasbourg, Ankara, Madrid: none felt like home, but in books I discovered my people | Elif Shafak As a child I moved from France to Turkey to Spain – then I finally found roots and belonging in stories, writes novelist Elif Shafak

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