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Long Covid isn’t just an illness. It is an ostracizing condition that puts you in discordance with society, with your friends, your family, and yourself. People want very much to not think about it, but it’s inescapable if you have it. Only a few illnesses make you a social pariah, this is one.
This is who Starmer gave your health data to.
Palantir CEO promises that his technology will reduce educated women's economic and political power newrepublic.com/post/207693/...
This is who Starmer gave your health data to.
In Trump's case he has taken the Govian argument to its natural conclusion.
Whereas previously governments kept experts around not because they actually listened to them much but because they lent a veneer of legitimacy to what they did, now they just don't care.
Of course that matters, it matters very much.
But everyone in the era of neoliberalism knows that if you speak truth to power in the workplace even if for the employer's probable benefit, you're very likely to be unemployed imminently.
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We've probably all worked in placed where the excesses of 'leaders' beggar belief. Why are NDAs such a big deal? Because all sorts goes on. Everywhere.
Trump is the apotheosis of this, indeed, but the only difference with his advisers is that some are outright fascists /3
Someone, I forget who for shame, did a good article a while back arguing that Trump was the natural outcome of decades of the valorisation of amoral businesspeople.
Whilst there are shibboleths in the LinkedIn bullshit - 'I want people who will challenge me as a leader etc' they're all bullshit. /2
Thing is that's not so dissimilar to advisers to Blair during the Iraq War and Afghanistan. He only wanted to hear good news that could be a press release or a TV segment. Hence six month tours with some 'showstopper' op towards the end like hauling a turbine to a dam etc.
It's a wider issue. /1
It's interesting that even in the 1950s Tony Crosland lamented the particularly vicious nature of management in the UK.
What we have now are limited statutory rights which in the workplace as in other areas are often extraordinarily difficult-to-impossible to enforce, even with union support.
Even (b) is (a) in my view, to be honest. We exceptionalise issues such as 'workplace bullying' and to be clear there is a specific category of that, but the whole pass-agg HR domination system is institutional workplace bullying. Legacy of empkoyers not being afraid of unions for c. 40 years.
Disabled people being pushed into poverty.
People with disabilities need support, not benefit cuts.
Requirement to score 4 points for an activity leads to loss of PIP support.
Govts attack human welfare whilst promoting corporate welfare.
We are all one event away from needing disability support
In another grim moment in the ongoing attack on freedom of expression and assembly in Britain, the Home Secretary has approved a request from the Metropolitan Police to ban the annual pro-Palestinian Al Quds Day march this Sunday www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
I think they mean actual attacks from bases. The UK was already doing refuelling and transit.
UK media: Starmer stood up to Trump!
US military press:
Lest we forget, Britain's own imperialism still impacts today as the people of Cyprus (amongst many others) know only too well.
They're demonstrating for the Brits to get out of Akrotiri.
You would hope at least illusions would bleed away here, but British self-delusion is intrinsic to its culture
I doubt very much the US will honour the terms of their 'agreement' to use UK bases.
Death is death, in any event.
And British people can no longer be under any illusions that their country is a US vassal state.
'We will remember', Trump said. How will the commentariat spin this one?
#OtD 7 Mar 1921 the repression of the Kronstadt Rebellion against the Bolsheviks, demanding worker self-governance and freedom for socialist prisoners began. It was brutally crushed by the Red Army led by Trotsky and hundreds were executed stories.workingclasshistory.com/article/1072...
Kim Leadbeater, the Labour MP who brought the bill to Parliament to legalise assisted dying, voted tor the disabilty support cuts.
Loads of Labour MPs did the same.
(And for the reasons given!)
But those MPs aren't interested in that, and like you I wonder why.
I don't where my MS ends, obviously. I don't know how bad it will become. And some in a far worse state than I am now want legalisation end of story and are not so concerned about safeguards. I understand that.
The most helpful thing for me would be a staunch defence of PIP and UC.
Yeah. I am in favour as you are of people having the right to decide what they do with their lives, including ending them.
However, seeing people in the UK voting for cuts to disability support simultaenously voting for assisted dying begs questions for me as someone living with progressive MS.
Not original thoughts I might add, @nicnorthcott.bsky.social been saying the run was false for ages.
Seismic that for Italy. The end for Borthwick, you'd have to assume, particularly if they get nuked next week by France.
Goes to show that a 'winning run' against teams without their best players in some tests because the Prem would only release the England players plus knackered teams was false.
Newly released footage shows an ICE agent killing Rubin Ray Martinez, 23, in his car in Texas.
"He was shot at point-blank range through his side window by an ICE agent who was in no danger."
www.bbc.com/news/article...
They did. He won them the League Cup.
The UK government is going to drag us into a war while simultaneously claiming we can't afford to help children with special needs at school.
We're on tonight from 7.30pm UK time.