Please don’t! Then we’ll get no summer! 😂🤣🤩
Did you know our Labour government launched a National Plan to End Homelessness, backed by £3.6bn, in December?
It includes record funding to tackle rough sleeping, end use of B&Bs for families, & prevent people becoming homeless in the first place.
2 new connected funds are launched today.
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Bad reporting. Not a word about low wages/bad conditions. But sure, govt should just “push” more people into work. Really? Young graduates, maybe they just don’t want work in tesco www.theguardian.com/business/202...
By Hiroshi Yasuda:
A COVID wave kills selected vulnerable people while making healthy people vulnerable.
You may be selected in the next wave.
Source: x.com/Yash25571056...
Also, that’s not why they’re leaving - people don’t mind taxes, but services have become really bad, plus the country has been making them feel unwelcome. No surprise they’re leaving in droves
Why is Starmer doing it? Is there any explanation? In the interviews before being elected he sounded so sane! Now so many of his actions don’t make any sense
Document from NHS England which basically says when there is another Pandemic we can’t be bothered to protect you, it’s too costly. We are on our own folks. H/T @catinthehat.bsky.social
@mrjamesob.bsky.social hope this comes up on the show sometime soon 🙏
Why can’t people see that we are all just one diagnosis away from needing help - welfare, mental help support, etc. Job losses, age, illness, can happen to anyone, anytime
I wish more people were aware of this. Considering the scale of the threat, the media's near-silence is both remarkable and culpable.
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
It’s so disappointing how this govt is constantly turning on the very people who voted for them - their job is to protect the nation. Instead, it’s face in the mud, boot on the neck at every turn. Why, Labour, why????
The truth … not enough hospital beds is the cause of A&E delays … political failure & NHS leaders complicit with them
Jan 23 Rishi Sunak promised 5000 more PERMANENT hospital beds.
NHSE leaders in Dec 23 said that there were added.
There are 400 fewer beds now than when he made that announcement!
Oh the patriot!
Enshittification of services. Why is this still happening? What is the government for if not to sort this out promptly?
www.theguardian.com/money/2025/d...
@mrjamesob.bsky.social another topic for the programme?
The myth that the NHS is ‘free’ is propagated by people who don’t want it to exist. No it’s not free! It’s paid for by the public - and many older patients who need the service more than most have paid into the system for their entire working lives!
Before Margaret Thatcher the UK had much cheaper rail, much cheaper mail, some of the cheapest Energy and Fossil Fuel in Europe and the cheapest water in Europe.
Because we owned it.
Look at it now, you pay more, the State PAYS more (totally insane), and it is worse.
Extreme inequality is poisoning democracy, stalling growth, and fuelling division.
At the upcoming Budget, the Government can stop the rot if they tax the super-rich, end the cuts and protect public services.
Demand a budget for the 99.9%.
taxjustice.eaction.org.uk/budgetforthe...
Of course you know why a private market in health care is so bad for health.
The best way to make money is to sell a drug that relieves the symptoms of, but does not cure, a very uncomfortable chronic condition.
The worst way to make money is to prevent illness through social change.
Today we’ve been in the West Midlands. Thanks so much to @sarahedwardsmp.bsky.social for coming down with Poykee, Westminster Dog of the Year
#TaxTheSuperRich
Great to see @kimjohnsonmp.bsky.social in Liverpool this morning. Thanks for your support! #TaxTheSuperRich
Patriotic Millionaires with the message "Tax us the super-rich" | North East Bylines
Universal Credit allows bosses to get away with paying wages that are too low to live on. Don't stigmatise the millions of hard-working people who depend on it as 'lazy'.
Living with Long COVID often feels like living in a horror movie. Along with your disease comes a creepy Hive Mind refusal to acknowledge the dangers of COVID infection. In Vince Gilligan's new Apple TV show Pluribus, the Hive Mind comes to life:
www.thegauntlet.news/p/pluribus-c...
The lesson of history is that tyrants cannot be appeased.
Appeasement only feeds their insatiable hunger for power.
Tyrants prey on people who feel unsafe and vulnerable.
But without mass submission, a tyrant is powerless.
Remember this.
As a Muslim, at a time of division Mamdani has brought much of his city together. He spoke for Mexican abuelas & Ethiopian aunties. “No longer would politics be something that is done to us. Now, it is something that we do”. It is shameful that not one of our UK leaders has been able to do the same.
Met the former editor of the York Evening Press last night, who said in the mid-90s he had 85 people working directly for him, including nine staff photographers. All that to serve a city and surrounding area of about 200k people. Local news was wilddddd.
Congratulations to Lidia Morawska, the Aussie scientist who alerted the world to the airborne nature of COVID-19. Winner of the Prime Minister’s Prize for Science. I’ve learnt so much from being a (very minor) part of Lidia’s team. Brilliant, incisive, generous.
www.industry.gov.au/publications...
This is only the latest version of a recurring pattern. In the 1930s it was ‘if they are so poor how can they afford to go to the cinema?’ The response is that poverty is revealed not in choices but the cost of choices. What do they have to sacrifice to do or have things others take for granted?
