Purls 'n' Politics

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I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

Our advice team provides tailored energy and benefits advice to our clients. When Jade was rationing food and energy due to prioritising caring for her two rescue dogs, we helped her with a benefits entitlement check and a referral to her local food bank and Pet Food Bank UK.

Brexit even puts people’s health at risk!

More than half (51%) of Pharmacists respondents rated Brexit top out of five issues they thought had the biggest impact on medicine supply issues in the UK.

A further 27% rated it a four, giving an overall average score of 4.21 out of five

GRMA Béal Feirste 💚🤍🧡

Main Stage EP today a chairde Gael 🔥

August 29, 2025 Chaos continues at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), where President Donald J.

How to Kill America- First they Kill our Democracy and then they work to Kill us!

Heather Cox Richardson on the dismantling of CDC & other horrors unfolding.

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Five years of citizen journalism: a personal tribute to North East Bylines North East Bylines let me turn personal pain and political fury into purposeful, public storytelling

Five years of citizen journalism: a personal tribute to North East Bylines
North East Bylines let me turn personal pain and political fury into purposeful, public storytelling
by Julie Ward @northeastbylines.co.uk
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Sunday Times cover saying new poll shows only 29% would vote for Brexit now.

And expect that number to shrink further.

No matter how much the government, major parties, or tabloid press push “Brexit benefits…”

People know Brexit doesn’t.

Brexit leaves the UK in a structurally weaker position, bleeding money, time, efficiency and opportunity daily.

Living in a low-income area doesn’t just hurt your wallet — it harms your health.

People in Britain’s most deprived neighbourhoods are exposed to the most toxic air.

We’re supporting @healthequals@bsky.social and the #MakeHealthEqual campaign — everyone deserves clean air: brnw.ch/21wUm5l

Gaza – where food aid is a weapon Military aid: how private guns turned Gaza’s breadline into a killing strip

“The entire 2.1 million population of Gaza is facing prolonged food shortages, with nearly half a million people in a catastrophic situation of hunger, acute malnutrition, starvation, illness and death. This is one of the world’s worst hunger crises, unfolding in real time.”

Gorgeous grassroots community vibes at this today. Brilliant craic.

The American people were lied to about Vietnam, with tragic consequences.

The American people were lied to about Iraq, with tragic consequences.

The American people are being lied to again today. We cannot allow history to repeat itself.

This sounds like aggressive “re-programming”…

…and surely breaks international law as to what captors are allowed to do with their hostages.

Netanyahu is determined. He won’t stop unless he is actively stopped.

It’s not about selling a few less weapons, pleading, expressing outrage & maybe ending a trade negotiation we never should’ve been in.

It’s about aggressive sanctions now, expelling the ambassador & our military delivering aid.

No Ireland 🇮🇪 in #Eurovision???
Raging 🤬

"In Ireland, we mind people".
My mucker, the beautiful @loumathews.bsky.social
I know the most beautiful spirits in the feckin world.

Simply this.

Israel Votes to Capture All of Gaza and Occupy It Indefinitely The army is also calling up tens of thousands of reserve soldiers.

This insanity needs to be stopped.

Israel is barbaric and no friend of any nation. Israel must be stopped & Palestine must be defended.

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Nigel Farage is a political fraud ‘cosplaying’ as working-class champion, TUC chief says Exclusive: Paul Nowak acknowledges voters’ frustrations but says Reform UK hasn’t got the answers, and urges Keir Starmer to resist any move to the right

Nigel Farage is a “political fraud and hypocrite” who is “cosplaying” as a working-class champion in order to win votes at this week’s local elections

Paul Nowak, secretary TUC said “massive contradictions” in Farage’s positions on issues ranging from workers’ rights, the economy, industry & Brexit

A reminder of a pretty etymology to brighten the day. The ‘daisy’ takes its name from the Old English ‘dæges ēage’, ‘day’s eye’, because it opens its petals at dawn, and closes them again at dusk.

The Good Friday Agreement was signed 27 years ago today. It was an act of delicate diplomacy, which delivered peace and security to a part of our country where those qualities had long been absent. Those achievements should never be taken for granted.

MAGA: Look at his luxurious clothes, tailored from the finest cloths.

Rest of the world: WTF? He's butt naked.

Gigil, alamak among new words in Oxford English Dictionary The Oxford English Dictionary has added new untranslatable words from South East Asia.

‘Gigil’ has long been a favourite untranslatable: finding something or someone so impossibly cute you just want to squeeze them (not always great for the squeezee).

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The stages in MAGA responding to a negative story:
1: It's all lies
2: Most of it is lies
3: Some of it's true, but it doesn't matter
4. It's all true, but it's fine when we do it
5. F**k you

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Reeves to reveal biggest UK spending cuts since austerity in spring statement Labour MPs uneasy as chancellor prepares even deeper reductions that economists say will harm key services

“I don’t know how much longer we can go on pretending this is not austerity”

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‘Stain on this country’: celebrities condemn cuts to UK disability benefits Actors including Stephen Fry and Brian Cox criticise plan that will remove support for more than 1 million people

Celebrities including Stephen Fry, Brian Cox and Stanley Tucci have criticized the decision to cut benefits as a “shameful … stain on this country” that risks pushing more people to food banks
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Patriotic Millionaires UK ‘Tax our Wealth’ campaign visits Bristol Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget

🔥 Patriotic Millionaires UK campaigned last week across the country to advocate for a Wealth Tax, against the backdrop of significant possible welfare cuts in the spring budget.