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A woman is killed by a man every 3 days in the UK...

78% are murdered by a partner/ex

Yet not once have I heard Reform talk about this

Not once have I heard them back measures to protect women’s safety

In fact, they voted against them...

Fantastic result in Bromsgrove, congratulations to Sam Ammar and the local team!

Across the country, it’s the Liberal Democrats who are taking the fight to Reform and winning 💪

No half measures • Resolution Foundation The Government’s long-awaited Child Poverty Strategy is due next month, close to, or contemporaneous with, the Autumn Budget. There have been some welcome announcements already: the over-indexation of...

'In one fell swoop, the government could reduce the number of children growing up in poverty by 330,000 today and save a further 150,000 children from that fate by 2029-30'. Excellent, unambiguous analysis by @resfoundation.bsky.social www.resolutionfoundation.org/publications...

People who have come to the United Kingdom legally, played by the rules and made it their home do not need to “go home”. This is their home.

I've written to Kemi Badenoch to give her the chance to reject these divisive calls from her frontbencher Katie Lam.

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The first page of a letter from Ed Davey and Pippa Heylings to Kemi Badenoch regarding the Climate Change Act

The second page of a letter from Ed Davey and Pippa Heylings to Kemi Badenoch regarding the Climate Change Act

The final page of a letter from Ed Davey and Pippa Heylings to Kemi Badenoch regarding the Climate Change Act, and signed by Liberal Democrat MPs

Yesterday we heard renewables overtook coal as the world's largest source of electricity generation. We should celebrate this milestone, yet the Conservatives want to put that progress into reverse. @libdems.org.uk will always support clean energy: for people, for the country, and for the planet.

Headline: Reform poised to raise Kent council tax as Musk-inspired attack on costs falters

Reform vowed to save "a lot of money" by abolishing "wasteful" spending in Kent. Instead they are going to put our taxes up!

A Free Press, Not a Free Pass – It's Time for Fair Regulation For too long, the UK press have bullied people, harassed grieving families, and destroyed lives, all to sell papers. We’ve all seen the heartbreaking consequences. They’ve hacked phones, listened to ...

Did you watch The Hack? I can't believe papers have gotten away with destroying lives for so long. That's why I've signed the petition, set up by Hugh Grant and other phone hacking victims, to demand fair, independent regulation. Join me: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/a-...

Reform will apparently pledge today that they'd abolish indefinite leave to remain - including retrospectively, to people already granted it. Obviously this is a moral abomination but it is also a practical and legal impossibility.

Oh.

Amid all the stuff about ‘dangerous London’ and ‘broken Britain’, new figures show the homicide rate in London is at a 10-year low. Killings dropped by 26% over the last year, from 78 to 58. No one under 25 was murdered during the school summer holidays.

there’s a tweet for every occasion

From dirty water to wildlife protections, the environmental cost of Brexit only gets higher Britain’s promises of a post-Brexit green revolution have unravelled, with protections for wildlife, water and air weaker now than at any point in recent decades

Promises of a post-Brexit green revolution have unravelled, with protections for wildlife, water and air weaker now than at any point in recent decades 😡
www.theguardian.com/environment/...

The cover of Ben Folds Five debut album

30 years exactly since this amazing album came out. I didn’t discover Ben Folds till a few years later, and via the second album, but there’s so much to love about this first one, from the intro to Jackson Cannery to the extraordinary end of Boxing

Any or all of you can help make ‪@ghostcards.bsky.social‬ less little and more lovely by following.

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Abu Dhabi-owned SEND school firm profits soar to £45m Rise in private special school pupils helped deliver 30 per cent profit boost, company says

Abu Dhabi owned provider of special schools and children's homes sees profits rise by 28% to £44 million due to strong demand.

That's all taxpayer money that could be spent on improving state provision.

schoolsweek.co.uk/abu-dhabi-ow...

Last night Russia bombarded Ukraine

741 areal targets including a RECORD 728❗️drones @ 13⚠️ missiles

Reports included a Kh-47M2 Kinzhal missile - which reaches its target in mere minutes.

A friend “it was loud but I tried to sleep” - she means in a basement on a cold floor

Others weren’t so lucky

You will never convince me otherwise: wheelie bins are the ugliest mass-adopted objects in the UK.

Some days they're street furniture, the rest of the time they’re literally the first thing that welcomes you to someone’s home. Ugly and stinky.

Brexit shrank the economy by about £100 billion.

So every year, the government is forced to forego the tax revenue (£35-£40 billion) it would have collected from that £100 billion in economic output.

So after 10 years, the economy is still down £100 billion but the government is down £350 billion.

Predictions of £40bn hit to public finances from Brexit ‘correct’ Office for Budget Responsibility’s forecast of a 4 per cent productivity loss from leaving the EU has been largely borne out, says top economist

The verdict, nine years on: “an unambiguous stagnation in investment.”

“A large chunk of [tax rises] would not have been necessary if the UK had voted to remain in the EU or chosen a softer form of Brexit.” ~AA

www.thetimes.com/article/346e... #BrexitMemorial

Jess Brown-Fuller (LibDem), "Children that don't grow up in poverty are less likely to have additional health needs, are less likely to rely on a welfare state as an adult"

"That's why the LibDems have been campaigning to remove the two child benefit cap since it was introduced in 2017"

Then.... now.

While they were at no.1 in the charts with the ballad of john and yoko?!

New Mexico proves Heckman right “every dollar spent on high-quality, birth-to-5 programs for disadvantaged children delivers a 13% per annum return from better education & health outcomes for kids, employment gains for parents, greater economic productivity & reduced spending on healthcare & crime

On the pitch, you need that hunger…

New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year Exclusive: Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market

New figures reveal Brexit costing UK business £37bn a year.

Billions of pounds worth of lost business with other European Union countries prompts calls to re-enter customs union and single market 🇪🇺 👍
www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/poli...

Invest in Long Covid & M.E. Research: Thousands of Children DISABLED, DISCHARGED, & HIDDEN FROM VIEW • Five years after the start of the Covid pandemic, thousands remain severely ill - Many housebound or often bedbound, unable to attend school, work, or take part in daily life.  Disabled, discha...

I just signed the petition urging the Government to invest in research to help those suffering from Long Covid. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/in...

Tax the super rich to stop cuts to public services Across the UK, living standards are falling and millions live in poverty, while the cost of living crisis has made affording the basics difficult. Public services we all rely on - our hospitals, schoo...

I just signed the petition to to demand the Government tax the super rich to rebuild our NHS, schools, and other public services. Will you sign too? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ta...

Opinion | Musk Said No One Has Died Since Aid Was Cut. That Isn’t True. A journey through the front lines of global poverty shows that when the world’s richest men slash aid for the world’s poorest children, the result is sickness, starvation and death.

The world's richest man stole food from the world's poorest children. Now they are beginning to die
www.nytimes.com/interactive/...

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit Food and Drink Federation say businesses are struggling to deal with added ‘complexity and bureaucracy’

UK food and drink exports to the EU down 34% since Brexit www.theguardian.com/business/202...