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Strikes off in Dorset after U-turn in outsourcing NHS staff row - UNISON South West Hundreds of health staff in Dorset won’t be taking strike action after their employers halted plans that could’ve seen them transferred out of the NHS.

🎉 Strike action off in Dorset
Three NHS trusts drop outsourcing plans after 94% of support staff voted to strike.
UNISON general secretary Christina McAnea says this decision brings relief and sends a strong message to other trusts.

Human Leather - Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body album cover. An over exposed photograph of someone pushing a shopping cart past a shop entrance.

Amée Chanter and Thomas Close still sound like Lightning Bolt crossed with Electric Wizard but with a surprising new knack for melody, finds Jon Buckland

Human Leather - Here Comes The Mind, There Goes The Body

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"…and Magda Goebbels made a great strudel.”

#TraineeTalk

I'm starting a PGDip in Psychodynamic Psychotherapy very soon, and have an intimidating reading list to source!

I'm on the lookout for physical copies of the following - if you have a copy for sale and are happy to save a WC trainee the cost, please let me know!

#TherapistsConnect #TherapistsSky

Ta!

Is this from a longer post? It's levelled me

Sun front page saying “Mum’s home”, about the crank woman who got jailed for inciting riots in tweets

Where are a tiny number of racist protestors getting the idea that they are a majority with momentum behind their cause, another great mystery

This is so fucking on the money

Something that’s been missed about the blocking of the Hillsborough law is that it’s intrinsically linked to the genocide in Gaza.

Why? Because it would allow public officials who lie to be prosecuted.

What does a ban on Palestine Action mean in practice?

The government's decision to ban Palestine Action as a terrorist organisation is being rushed through Parliament. It will be subject to a legal challenge, but legal action will take time and the impact on the movement will be immediate. Counter-terrorism laws give the police wide ranging and poorly defined powers, leaving a lot of room for police to abuse their power. Experience of previous counter-terror policing tells us that these powers are used in an overtly racist and Islamophobic way.

What will be banned? It will become a criminal offence to: be a member of or express support for Palestine Action. to express a positive view of Palestine Action or be ‘reckless’ about whether what you say about them could encourage others to support them. wear clothing or carry anything in public which could arouse reasonable suspicion that you are a supporter of Palestine Action. post or share images in support of Palestine Action. fundraise for or give money to Palestine Action. All of the above can relate to things you're doing online and offline (e.g. on social media, in public message threads).

Are there any exceptions to these rules? There is an exemption under Section 10 of the Terrorism Act which is intended to protect people who are challenging the ban. That means you can still protest against the ban and talk about the official process to challenge it. However, you still need to consider whether your expression is “reckless as to whether the expression will encourage others to support the organisation”, and it will still be a crime to generally post positive messages about Palestine Action or to share their logos and imagery.

Palestine Action have been banned as a terrorist organisation in the UK.

Read our FAQ on the proscription and find out what this means in practice for campaigners.

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Headline: Bob Dylan performance in Greater Manchester. Followed by a press release dated 30 June 2025, which reads: A GMP spokesperson said: “We are aware that Bob Vylan will be performing in Manchester at the weekend. "Greater Manchester is famous for promoting music of all genres and we welcome all artists to our region. However, we will act immediately on any reports of commentary or actions that could be breaking the law.”

Greater Manchester Police genuinely put out this creepy press release yesterday

DWP says 150,000 more people pushed into poverty by benefit cuts - not 250,000 as forecast said before U-turn The Department for Work and Pensions has just published an analysis saying that, allowing for the concesssions announced last week, the welfare cuts will still push an extra 150,000 people into relative poverty.

I’m sorry, the DWP announcing “don’t worry, the benefits u-turn means only 150,000 people will be pushed into poverty now!” is just insane. Cruel, incompetent ghouls who shouldn’t be allowed to run a bath let alone a system sick people rely on to live.

The Diggers were right!

Fuck off.

This governance-by-opinion-poll has to end. Stop asking people's opinions about stuff we don't have the tools to understand and do the damn work you've been elected for.

A couple of months ago after UKIP held a Mass Deportations rally, leader Nick Tenconi along with his security team and supporters went to drink and chat together at a pub. What they weren't aware of was that their actions and conversations were being monitored by one of our activists throughout.

To paraphrase Mark Fisher, it’s easier to imagine Tottenham Hotspur winning the Europa League than it is to imagine them winning a Premier League game.

Looking forward to the imminent collapse of the social care sector

Heretical to put ketchup on hot dogs now

A Chicago Pope implies the existence of an MLA Pope and APA Pope

this is genuinely so sweet and made me tear up. sometimes people are good

I genuinely don't know how to process this. It seems unthinkable that deliberate, calculated mass starvation is just... happening. In full view. It's impossible and yet real.

the parsimonious thruline to so many things right now is that, one way or another, the prerogatives of settler states to liquidate populations and compel labor by any means necessary is nonnegotiable and trumps all talk of rights, values, norms, etc. its grim shit folks

Daniel Day-Lewis and others as protestant Nativists is Gangs of New York.

The entire British media and political class upon seeing that Kneecap clip.

🧵Why is mental health disability rising? Here are key reasons rarely discussed in mainstream media:

1/ For decades we've neglected tackling the social determinants of societal distress, relying instead on medicalisation as a superficial ‘fix’ for downstream harms. This has......

This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic

www.crabmuseum.org/visit

🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀

After the UK's Supreme Court ruling lots of "Gender Critical" activists are moving on to other things

Kellie-Jay Keen-Minshull aka "Posie Parker", one of the most influential GCs, has just sent out a news letter saying she's pivoting to attacking immigrants

partyofwomen.org/so/d1PPKBesG...