Sarah Le Blanc

Fast-fashion recycling: how ‘the castoff capital of the world’ is making Indian factory workers sick Reports of lung disease, skin conditions and even cancer are rising in Panipat, which recycles 1 million tonnes of textile waste a year

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I think this also translates to the UK:

"And honestly, I think that many of us have also gotten stuck imagining that we’re also pundits and politicians and somehow responsible for figuring the whole crisis out and having opinions on each new outrage and who should do what."

No.

For even if the government cannot recover all its damages and costs here, this case is still a signal to current and potential suppliers that it is willing to enforce it contractual rights.

And that is very valuable.

Many government suppliers do not believe the government will ever do this.

It’s the responsibility and the duty of anyone with a public platform to keep reminding everybody that civilisations flourish by collaboration not hostility and prejudice. This includes intellectuals who keep to their lanes in generating knowledge. Make no mistake, this is absolutely your lane.

This is the hill I will die on. Information should come (at least also) IN TEXT FORM.

I screenshot of a headline which reads: Research suggests those with higher BMI less likely to die.

Exciting news! Being slightly overweight might convey immortality. Huge if true.

Nothing to do with digital ID, but on my phone I have an entire folder of apps that I had to install and log into because I needed to use them exactly once, to use transit while I was travelling, or to pay for parking in a place I don't usually go, etc. It's absolutely maddening.

"How many traitors are in Farage's new party?" would, I suggest be a better line than Digital ID.

To beat Reform, make wavering voters ashamed to back them.

Bloody solar panels, cluttering up the countryside and preventing desertification while providing clean energy and growing food.

Brit cards: what can possibly go wrong? Starmer says the scheme tackles illegal working and makes it easier for the 'vast majority of people' to use vital govt services. But, aside from privacy stuff, vast amount of people - disabled people/families, older people - are already digitally excluded.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see I mean, it seems pretty obvious when you put it like that, right? But how many families, when an introvert sibling or child makes an effort to socialize, snarkily say, "So, you've decided to join us"? Or when someone does something they've had trouble doing, say, "Why can't you do that all the time?" (Happened to me, too often.) Or any sentence containing the word "finally". If someone makes a step, a small step, in a direction you want to encourage, encourage it. Don't complain about how it's not enough. Don't bring up previous stuff. Encourage it. Because I swear to fucking god there is nothing more soul-killing, more motivation-crushing, than struggling to succeed and finding out that success and failure are both punished.

Do not punish the behaviour you want to see.

An advertisement for the polio vaccine which reads: "they all got vaccine except dad...don't take a chance...take your polio shots!" It depicts a photo of a family gathered around a father who is in an iron lung.

With science falling under increasing attack, this medical historian is here to remind people of the power of #vaccines. THREAD🧵

Hard-hitting polio advert from 1958. In the first half of the 20th century, polio was the leading cause of death in children and young adults. 1/7

UK: pls can we have a crumb of affordable homes and non-cost-of-living-crisis
Starmer: so you're saying you want *spins wheel* ID cards

the post office is a public service. it doesn’t need to make money. public transit doesn’t need to make money. the library doesn’t need to make money. some things exist for the public good and we desperately need lawmakers to stop thinking about them in terms of capitalism. these are not businesses.

Antitrans bigotry is homophobic bigotry is antifeminist bigotry...

Just for comparison,
the term "child poverty" has only been referenced 869 times,

"homelessness" 627.

"cost of living" 719

"housing crisis" 310

You know, minor topics which are obviously secondary to demonising people for coming to the UK. 5/

Every journalist in the country incapable of drawing any lines between Story 1: government making a compulsory national database of all your private information and Story 2: hackers holding people to ransom over pictures of their kids at nursery

First thought, was I know I'm tired but I didn't realise I'd slept for 3 years. This is an absolutely crazy way to use and report polling. It should not be getting this kind of priority at this stage in an electoral cycle.

As someone who's been suffering from hepatitis since I picked it up in Peru in May despite being vaccinated.

PLEASE, PLEASE take up any and all hepatitis jabs you are offered or recommended whenever they are available.

I've been very unwell and would definitely be in hospital without the vaccine.

The "no-one talks about immigration" line is so obviously nonsense. Not only is it one of the single most reported on issues in the media, it is also one of the most talked about in politics, with "immigration" alone referenced more than 1,700 times in the last 12 months in House of Commons. 1/

Our research makes it clear: by capitulating to the right, Labour is driving voters to Reform UK | Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte Mimicking Farage on immigration is senseless. Labour voters feel betrayed; anti-immigration voters see through the ruse, say academics Tarik Abou-Chadi and Stuart Turnbull-Dugarte

For the Guardian, @turnbulldugarte.com and I discuss our research that clearly shows one thing: Labour's anti-immigration strategy will only strengthen Reform and weaken its own electoral prospects. It won't win voters back but ultimately normalizes the far right

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Also, we don't have any borders to take control of because we live on a island. We have a coast. Lots and lots of coast. Which we are not about to cover with check points to check any form of ID from whoever happens to land on it.

The constant drive to reduce taxes has always baffled me.
The ones that shout the loudest for lower taxes are the first to cry when things stop working.

The UK doesn't have any money, so the plan is to spend many billions of pounds issuing everyone with another form of photo ID.

Don't report this as a civil liberties thing, just calculate how many GPs you could get for the same money.

I've just realised this must be why I've been so aggressively advertised a lot of digital project management jobs with the government recently.

One thing about the whole "Brit Card" bullshit that the authoritarians are pushing:

We've touched on the likely reaction in Northern Ireland. But remember too that everyone in the Republic of Ireland can also freely move in the UK, and there's no provision for an ID card scheme in the CTA agreement

Living in this country at the moment feels like a really macro version of being in one of those meetings where everyone wants to find someone to blame for a problem instead of a solution to it.

But without any power to refocus people's attention back to the practicalities at hand.

Police powers to stop and question The police can stop and question you at any time. A police community support officer (PCSO) must be in uniform when they stop and question you. A police officer does not always have to be in uniform. If they're not, they must show you their warrant card as proof of their identity. A police officer might stop you and ask: • what your name is • what you're doing in the area • where you're going You do not have to stop or answer any questions. If you do not and there's no other reason to suspect you, then this alone cannot be used as a reason to search or arrest you.

Like.

As soon as that changes to “cops can stop you and demand to see ID and you can fined/arrested if you don’t have it on you”

that’s a whole different thing we’re dealing with.

Time for me to deploy my expertise from having worked with databases of individuals and their data in the public sector: whatever you might imagine will be happening behind the scenes of a digital ID card, the actual reality of that dataset is going to be an information governance nightmare.

They're already not checking for any form of ID, or a national insurance number, now they'll just add not checking for a digital ID card to the list.