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Haha. Yes. Little better.
Our politicians today are profoundly unserious

It’s also a horrible death

Like the Covid Inquiry, the series on Nazanin Zaghari and Richard Ratcliffe is yet another reminder that from 2015 - 2024 we were governed by a shedload of f*ckwitted dilettantes

I wonder how Tobias Elwood is feeling after the second episode of the Nazanin Zaghari Ratcliffe dramatisation
What an ignorant but overbearingly patronising git he appeared to have been
Less emotional intelligence than a WW11 tank
Ugh

Infographic by Save the Children highlighting the economic cost of child poverty in the UK. It shows a large figure, £39 billion, representing the overall cost, and a smaller figure, £3.6 billion, detailing the cost of maintaining a two-child limit on benefits. Includes references to sources at the bottom.

Child poverty costs the UK economy an estimated £39 billion per year - more than ten times the money that keeping the two-child limit 'saves'.

And as the limit itself is the largest driver of rising child poverty in the UK, scrapping it would be the most cost-effective way to reduce child poverty.

Defiling childhood: child poverty and austerity in the UK Poverty is most harmful in childhood. Why have we normalised child poverty for those children who are least able to recover from the ensuing harms?

Bylines Cymru also covered this

bylines.cymru/politics-and...

Thank you

Do they have HEPA filters I wonder!?
This article ignores not just the impact of repeated covid infections in children but the role of schools in community spread There’s a reason we have a big UK wave every October

What do you think is the best way to do this?
I’ve been donating to UNRWA but don’t know if that’s the best place to go to
I am wary of individual GoFunds and UNRWA have a long experience in Gaza so I trust them

The Labour Party is also anti-democratic/authoritarian, a political axis independent of the L-R one
Hence its mistrust of the vital civil-society role of universities (civil society is essential to a functioning democracy) & tolerance of the authoritarianism Gove inflicted on English schoolchildren

@cherrycasey.bsky.social
Your article in The Lead on the rise of authoritarianism in schools was excellent - I share it all the time!
Just a note: this is a huge problem in England, much less so in Wales where we have no academies, & the Senedd has encouraged a “trauma-informed” schools agenda

The Labour Party is also anti-democratic/authoritarian, a political axis independent of the L-R one
Hence its mistrust of the vital civil-society role of universities (civil society is essential to a functioning democracy) & tolerance of the authoritarianism Gove inflicted on English schoolchildren

On the hunt for the mystery herb Silphium was once worth its weight in gold, and even stamped on Greek currency. But what is it?

Thanks. Hadn’t heard of it
Interesting

Good god
Grok is Holocaust denying

Re. the US Constitution & their Military Code:

“ARTICLE VI REQUIRED THAT AMERICAN OFFICERS THEREAFTER SWEAR LOYALTY TO OUR BASIC LAW, THE CONSTITUTION …..
OUR AMERICAN CODE OF MILITARY OBEDIENCE REQUIRES THAT, SHOULD ORDERS AND THE LAW EVER CONFLICT, OUR OFFICERS MUST OBEY THE LAW.”

Iconic part of rugged Welsh landscape that's under threat The side product from the slate industry has been a prominent feature of the north west Wales countryside

The side product from the slate industry has been a prominent feature of the north west Wales countryside

Study In The Journal Of Pediatrics Finds Trans Youth Care Lowers Suicidality, Few Detransition The groundbreaking study found that suicidality dropped for transgender youth receiving hormone therapy by nearly 70%, with only 7 patients of 432 discontinuing treatment.

1. A landmark study was just published in The Journal of Pediatrics.

It found a 68% reduction in suicidality for trans youth getting HRT.

It also found only 7 of more than 400 stopped taking HRT... and of those that did, 4 still identified as gender-diverse.

Transgender care saves lives.

One of mine, but don't let that put you off!

Tell chancellor Rachel Reeves to stop funding carbon capture and storage Dear Rachel, In your statement to the House of Commons in July last year, you announced a £22billion black hole in public finances. Three months later, the government pledged £22billion of public mon...

Every £ spent on carbon capture is one which could instead be invested in accelerating the rollout of cheap, clean renewables and energy storage —giving us more energy independence. please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/te...

Tobias Elwood hardly covered in glory either.
The egocentrism and class-ethnocentrism of the British upper classes, whose life experiences are pitifully narrow, are breathtaking

Yet another illegal & violent US-foray into Latin America.
These never end well, but it’s particularly true for the ordinary citizens of whichever country the US is currently buggering up

Climate change is no longer a threat of the future. It is a tragedy of the present. Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva Brazilian President

Israel has broken the Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing hundreds, say Palestinians ISRAEL has broken the Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing hundreds, according to Palestinians.The Gaza government Media Office said today that Israel must be held fully responsible for the...

"Israel has broken the Gaza truce nearly 500 times in 44 days, killing hundreds, say Palestinians"
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I’ll never forget the horror of the Covid wards | The Observer

Powerful piece by @drrachelclarke.com on the COVID inquiry. Those who say it’s easy to be wise in hindsight are being utterly disingenuous. Many of us spoke out at the time, and it’s in the public record.
@independentsage.bsky.social

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Except China did OK until their efforts were nulled by the laissez faire approach of western govs (with exceptions)
We were a middle sized country with an idiotic government
A government of dilettantes and amateurs
That was the blueprint for doing badly

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The only reason Gill stopped being the Reform UK leader in Wales was because he failed to win a seat in the 2021 Senedd election.

Zia Yusuf keeps trying to make this sound like this is ancient history, and Reform washed their hands of him, but nothing is further from the truth.

They don’t protect anyone.
Making the UK a shitty place for poc wanting to come here makes it shitty for everybody; except perhaps the very rich (white or poc)
Their wealth insulates them against the social ills & misery arising from the politics of hate & division so beloved of our politicians

Yet Corbyn was a racist, a terrorist, a security risk…thanks MSM
Yes he’s flawed; yes he’s not a “natural” leader
(Certainly not a style of leadership neoliberal sensibilities view as valid: authoritarian & macho)
But he’d have been a x1000 better leader in the pandemic

So the MSM has🩸on its 🤚s too

Nothing signals #BorisJohnson ’s psychopathic personality as loudly as this response to the #Covidinquiry
There, displayed clearly, are an utter lack of shame, guilt, remorse & empathy - hallmarks of #psychopathy
That such a man became UK PM is incomprehensible
In the pandemic it was a catastrophe