Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities

About time. Why did it take so long. #CovidIsNotOver

Suggesting the world is “post COVID” contributes to an unwitting shift in research priorities
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Stop employers covering up abuse Hey! Do you remember the Harvey Weinstein case? Non Disclosure Agreements silenced victims of abuse - and it's not just happening in Hollywood. They're used in the UK to cover up all kinds of miscondu...

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Revolution Breeze @SueJonesSays 1/ Starmer is calling cuts to disability support 'behavioural change'- Nudge. Illness is not a 'behaviour'. It's spectacularly & absurdly cruel to claim further cuts to support to meet basic survival needs will cure people & 'help' them into work. Dangerous, cruel pseudoscience 11:39 AM · Apr 9, 2025

Good to learn to recognise Nudge Theory. It was first picked up by Cameron in 2010. The guys behind Nudge were really proud, but later, they saw how Tories abused it, leading to tens of thousands of deaths. The guys backed away and won't be associated with it now. #WelfareCuts #PIP #Starmer

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Screenshot of polling data from Jan 2025

The UK would now want to rejoin the EU by 55% to 33%

Removing those that don’t know - that’s a 62.5% to 37.5% breakdown.

Sure, some people prefer only pictures

This is absolutely hilarious.

Russell Brand shares fake redacted file claiming that Penelope Keith shot JFK.

Clearly didn't read it.

Mind you, it's no madder than some of the other theories.

We’re expanding out for day 13 of my hunting crimes (b)advent with @huntsabs.bsky.social – it’s the horrific Quantock Staghounds .

We must close the loopholes and exemptions in the Hunting Act - we need a #RealBanNow

I agree, three hundred and sixty billion percent.

The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

In 1970, the UK finance sector assets were worth 50% of GDP

By 2022 assets hit £27 trn; UK GDP £2.5 trn.

The sector delivered speculation, crashes, frauds, dirty money, tax dodges.

Didn't deliver sustained economic growth.

Yet govts want bigger finance sector
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Annual rent for newly let UK home £3,240 higher than 2021, research finds Rents have risen by 27% since end of pandemic lockdowns, while earnings have increased by 19%

The average cost of renting a newly let UK home is now £3,240 higher than in 2021.

Rents have risen by 27% since 2021, wages haven't.

People priced out of buying/renting homes.

No govt plan to curb profiteering by builders, landlords, banks.
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UK’s economy shrinks unexpectedly by 0.1% in October GDP figures underline scale of challenge for Labour to get the economy growing

UK’s economy shrinks 0.1% in October.

Result of Labour following Tory policies, eroding people's purchasing power.
Real wage cuts
Benefit cuts
No curbs on profiteering
Graduate debts
Poor taxed more than the rich
Lack of skilled jobs

Govt must change policies
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Royal Mail fined £10.5m for missing delivery targets It is the second year in a row the company has been fined by the regulator for poor delivery performance.

Privatisation rip-off

Royal Mail fined £10.5m for failures.

74.7% of 1st class, 92.7% of 2nd class mail delivered on time.

Prices hiked: 1st class stamp £1.65; 2nd class 85p
When privatised in 2013: 1st class 60p; 2nd class 50p.

Fines paid by customers.
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The government shouldn’t pin all of its hopes for economic growth on the finance industry Such a strategy was tried in 1970s and came to grief in the mid-1970s secondary banking crash.

UK manufacturing accounts for £518bn; 23% of GDP; 7.3m jobs. £1m of manufacturing activity has £1.8m multiplier effect.

Finance industry contributed £208.2bn; 8.8% of GDP; 1.17m jobs; speculation has zero multiplier effect.

But Govt wants bigger finance industry
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It was a lot of work, and it's a long read. Best take it a section at a time X

Rogue company Unum’s profiteering hand in the government’s work, health and disability green paper I wrote an extensive critique of the recent government green paper on work, health and disability. I mentioned that a government advisor – a specialist in labour economics and econometrics &#…

#Dispatches #disabilitydenial 2016: Rogue insurance company Unum’s profiteering hand in the government’s work, health & disability green paper. How this ruthless company showed UK governments how to scapegoat ill & disabled people & how to stitch them up.
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Welfare sanctions can’t possibly “incentivise” people to work Abraham Maslow’s Hierarchy of Human Needs A summary The Conservative-led welfare “reforms” had the stated aim of ensuring that benefit claimants – who have been stigmatised and inaccura…

2015: Why the use of punitive sanctions on citizens who need welfare support can never work to 'incentivise' people into a job politicsandinsights.org/2015/12/20/w...

Covid corruption commissioner gets to work Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.

UK Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe.

First focus: £8.7bn of unusable PPE bought during the pandemic.

A gimmick to manage public opinion or will anyone be prosecuted - Grenfell, Leveson, infected blood, Post Office, banking crimes ...
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#InternationalDayOfDisabledPeople

It’s a really tough time for disabled people not just in the UK, but across the world. Sending solidarity to disabled people today. Keep fighting, keep resisting and keep being the brilliant people you are

I WILL FIGHT WITH EVERY FIBER OF MY BEING FOR SOCIAL SECURITY, AS A PATIENT ADVOCATE & WITH MY ALLIES LIKE SOCIAL SECURITY WORKS. JUST BECAUSE SENATOR MIKE LEE PUT THE BLUE PRINT OUT TO DESTROY SOCIAL SECURITY, HE WILL HAVE TO GET THROUGH US FIRST. THIS IS ABSOLUTELY DESPICABLE!

WILL YOU JOIN US? ✋

Profiteering by energy companies increases poverty, business costs and deindustrialisation of the UK.

High energy costs destroyed steel, shipbuilding, engineering and more.

Can't revive the economy without reducing the cost of essentials - public ownership, not-for-profits.

Covid corruption commissioner gets to work Tom Hayhoe's first task will be reviewing the £8.7bn of pandemic PPE that had to be written off.

Covid corruption commissioner starts fraud probe

Well I hope he gets a lot of our money back after the Tories and their PPE corruption..

And I also hope some of the profiteering wrong 'uns go to jail

Let's see.

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MPs back proportional representation system for UK elections in symbolic vote Lib Dem proposal is passed by 137 votes to 135 with some Labour backbench support but is unlikely to become law

Well this is something!

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It shouldn’t be ignored that Kash Patel chose to plead the Fifth in response to a grand jury subpoena over the Mar-a-Lago classified documents.

He only testified, involuntarily, after being granted immunity.

Think about that. Trump’s FBI nominee pled the Fifth in response to a DOJ subpoena.

Most health care professionals in my area don't wear masks any more, not even when their patient is someone with compromised immunity. My dentist does. But she is also immune compromised.

Disabled 'Wicked' Star Calls Out 'Gross' Ableist Jokes And Comments About Her Character This is not okay.

This is not okay.