Books by Mary O’Hara

Red austerity in the UK… and in the US The left-wing government in the UK and its right-wing US counterpart both have people with disabilities in their sights. Mary O’Hara talks to advocates, family members and professionals

The left-wing government in the UK and its right-wing US counterpart both have people with disabilities in their sights. @maryohara1.bsky.social talks to advocates, family members and professionals.
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All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn't Been Telling You About You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

🔴All the Big Government Reforms the Media Hasn’t Been Telling You About

You probably won’t have read much about these announcements over the past few weeks

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Wye pollution legal claim filed at High Court A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court

Wye pollution legal claim filed at High Court

A legal claim joined by almost 4,000 people challenging river pollution in the Wye and Usk catchment areas, has been filed at the High Court

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About | Literary Arts Fund The Literary Arts Fund advances support for the nonprofit literary arts field toward ensuring creative writers’ contributions to American literature for generations to come.

"Without nonprofit publishers American letters would have stalled long ago,” said Percival Everett.

Well said, Mr. Everett! 👏👏

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Woohoo!

Never the fun part of writing, but authors need to promote their books, so here is another push from me. I wish the books were no longer relevant, but unfortunately they are. #austerity #poverty

The Disney Heiress, the Soybean Farmer, and Trump’s Dangerous Decisions Two views of how the president’s senseless economic and moral acts put the country at risk.

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Exactly

Not been on here in a while but please check out this wonderful magazine I’m chuffed to be a part of. What a brilliant group of contributors and thank you @sabasalman.com for leading from the front! 🥰

Books — Content with Class

It is one year since my most recent book, Austerity Bites: 10 years on, was published. (Order from your local bookshop or library). Labour could, and should, have done so much good with their massive majority. #poverty #austerity www.maryoharaproductions.com/my-projects/...

Every day it seems get worse. This Labour Government is throwing petrol on the flames of division. And the media eats it up. 🤬

The Reform party conference and the end of democracy Farage is getting ready for power, but his party is becoming much more politically extreme than he is. If he gets the chance, will he give them what they want?

“You simply can’t get away with being the housing secretary and avoiding £40,000 in council tax,” Farage told the conference. But the deputy PM had underpaid stamp duty, not council tax. Farage may have struggled to get indignant on stamp duty, having taken legal steps not to pay it himself.

She’s writing about the 80s in France, but so much of this feels prescient in the current context. We live in bewildering times. And to a degree, we always have.

Amazing tree bark

Why Walking Helps Us Think Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

Since at least the time of Greek philosophers, many writers have discovered a deep, intuitive connection between walking, thinking, and writing.

A regular reminder that we writers love it when people read, rent, buy books. All kinds of books. But especially our own. It’s a mean old world. All sales and library rentals appreciated. Ask your library to stock if you can’t find/afford a book. Find the audiobook version if that’s your thing. 📚📚📚

A California afternoon.

"You can say what you like, I don’t care, because that’s what free speech is," Nigel Farage has just told the House Judiciary Committee, about three hours after his party banned me from covering its conference this weekend.

Elon Musk and his company have tweaked Grok, the A.I. powered chatbot, to make its answers more conservative on many issues, according to a New York Times analysis of thousands of its responses. nyti.ms/462hBye

Rising inequality is turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns Ray Dalio says business leaders scared to criticise Donald Trump as he warns of debt-induced crisis for the economy

Rising inequality turning US into an autocratic state, billionaire warns.

All over the world the rich/corporations buy the political system with donations, get favours in return.

Nothing will change until political donations are criminalized, people take rights e.g. workers vote on exec pay.

Graham Greene (1952-2025)

#filmsky 🎬 #movies 🎬 #cinema 🎬📽🎥🎞

Pritzker: "When did we become a country where it's ok for the US president to insist on national television that a state should call him to beg for anything? Especially something we don't want. Have we truly lost all sense of sanity in this nation that we treat this as normal?"

The A.I.-Profits Drought and the Lessons of History Like the steam engine, electricity, and computers, generative artificial intelligence could take longer than expected to transform the economy.

An M.I.T. study found that 95% of companies that had invested in A.I. tools were seeing zero return. It jibes with the emerging idea that generative A.I., “in its current incarnation, simply isn’t all it’s been cracked up to be,” johncassidysays.bsky.social writes.

🚨BREAKING: The California Supreme Court has DENIED the GOP's emergency petition to block the state’s new redistricting plan, ruling that GOP lawmakers had “failed to meet their burden of establishing a basis for relief” under the state Constitution.

Follow @democracydocket.com for full details.

Empty council-owned buildings 'could pave way for 25,000 new homes'

More than 8,000 council-owned buildings are lying empty across Britain and it could deliver 25,000 homes if cash-strapped councils can act.

Term I hate: optimized resume. Translate: age wash. Fit with stupid AI hoops.

Every now and then I remember that for O Level history I studied the history of medicine as well as the American West and, in particular, what was inflicted upon native tribes. Blows my mind. And we dug deep. What a privilege my education in a working class secondary school was. 🤯

Fed up with U.S. health care costs, these Americans moved abroad Three Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling medical debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.

More than 40 percent of U.S. citizens are in some form of medical debt.

These Americans explain why they left for Italy, South Korea and France, after crippling debt or a lack of coverage left them afraid to seek medical help at home.

There are so many books I love that I wish I could read for the first time. Anyone else feel that way? If so, which books?

One of the oddest things in US politics is that there is no single leader of the Opposition party truly designated from the start of a new presidency to be the assumed next president, who speaks on behalf of that Opposition party. It is proving to be a massive problem right now.