Ken Ryan

Why I am putting up Union flags on my high street in Sutton

Masked men putting up flags and demanding that passers by who challenge them tell them where they come from is not something to be celebrated.

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The incompetence of these clowns is staggering. I’d laugh if they weren’t getting closer to real power.

Nigel Farage urges PM to appoint Reform peers to House of Lords Reform has four MPs in the House of Commons and controls ten councils in England, but currently has no peers.

Self-styled slayer of unelected elites.... demands unelected representatives in the unelected House of Lords.

The absolute turnip.

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Chart shows the effects of Sure Start on academic achievements by age, SEN support by age, probability of hospitalisation by age and criminal behaviour up to age 16.

NEW: Sure Start generated widespread, long-lasting benefits for children in education, health, absences, and SEND.

Every £1 of up-front spending on Sure Start could generate around £2 in total benefits over the long run.

THREAD on our new ‪@nuffieldfoundation.org‬-funded report:

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Photo of an older woman with shoulder length white hair sitting in a support group meeting. Text reads: Substance use and mental ill health. From fragmentation to integration?

📢 Mental ill health and #SubstanceUse are intricately linked. But people struggling on both fronts are too often turned away, unable to access support for one until they've dealt with the other.

Our new briefing sets out the barriers that exist, and how they can be overcome: tinyurl.com/yeynkxba

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WE’VE WON OUR CASE TO #DefendDemocracy

The Court of Appeal has ruled that anti-protest laws which completely ignored the will of Parliament are unlawful

A screenshot of a news article with the headline "Nigel Farage claims UK is 'massively overdiagnosing' mental illness". The subheading reads "Reform leader claims GPs creating a 'class of victims' in elections speech." We've crossed out 'claims UK' and 'over-diagnosing' and replaced the latter with 'over-stigmatising' so the new headline reads "Nigel Farage is massively over-stigmatising mental illness". Above it is the headline, in Mind font, "Here we go again..."

Let’s be real – the facts are the real victims here. They keep being overlooked in favour of fuelling culture wars. 1/3

How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs (Gift Article) Britain’s decision to leave the European Union in 2016 was sold to voters as a magic bullet that would revitalize the country’s economy. Its impact is still reverberating.

Sometimes I feel like the NYT has been reading my tweets..

How Brexit, a Startling Act of Economic Self-Harm, Foreshadowed Trump’s Tariffs

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It's one of the greatest things I have ever seen.

Dear UK government, Let's be clear: our mental health is getting worse, and cutting benefits won’t help. You claim mental health is being “overdiagnosed”, but where’s the evidence? The reality is that our environment affects our wellbeing - pandemics, the cost of living crisis, political unrest and ongoing concerns around climate change are all taking their toll. But when people seek help, they face months, or even years, of waiting. Rhetoric like this is dangerous. It reinforces stigma and stops people getting support. If you’re serious about change, listen to those affected. We can turn this crisis around - but only if the government works with us, not against us. We look forward to hearing from you, Mind

Where's the evidence that mental health is being "overdiagnosed"?

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Liz Kendall, Secretary of State for Work and Pensions, has just confirmed plans to make cuts to disability benefits. This would affect some of the most vulnerable in our society and could push more people with mental health problems into poverty. 1/6

Labour MP Charlotte Nichols says the Government's benefits plans are "premature" as they are "legislating for the mental health services we hope to have in the future, not where these services are today."

Yesterday David Lammy was unequivocal that Israel is breaking international law. Today No 10 contradicts that and says it is merely “at risk of breaching” the law. It is an extraordinary position to put the Foreign Secretary in - who will now have to say why he was wrong, or why No 10 is wrong.

Thousands of people are ditching Tesla. Here’s one of them with a message you can see from space.

Location: Black Rock Sands, Wales, UK

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What mental illnesses are being ‘over diagnosed’ and who by? And what effect is that supposedly having on claims for PIP which uses a functional not diagnostic test? It’s so important that public & political debates about mental health, illness and social security are informed by robust evidence

As Honest Bob Jenrick tours the country repeating far-right conspiracy talking points about “two-tier sentencing”, here is the letter his own government sent to the Sentencing Council last year approving the very Guidelines he now claims are evidence of “two-tier Keir”.

The man is a fraud.

🧵 You've heard of Fake News, but have you heard of Fake Hooves? Disordered discourse isn't just about a system that is about political impact, but also how the system itself is gamed for profit. First, let me introduce you to The Hoof GP:

YouTube video by Gregory Mullins Claude Malhuret, Senator of the French Republic, speaks the truth about what is happening in the US

ICYMI
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the Tesla protests bring me such joy

it’s so straightforward, it’s available in so many locations, it has a material effect on a primary culprit, the company is suffering, it’s helping normalize a new narrative where this is a brand you should feel embarassed about supporting, and it’s VISIBLE

‘We have to protect people’: Martin Lewis on his fight to stop money worries worsening mental health The money-saving expert’s charity has changed policies – and is now gearing up to take on regulators and insurers

Guardian piece on Money & Mental Health's (@Mmhpi) new status and what we're trying to do to break the marriage made in hell between money problems and mental health issuss.
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220,000 Romanian Jews were murdered in WW2.

And here we are 80 years on

YouTube video by Times Radio Putin's 'not interested' in peace leaving Trump at risk of being played | Maj.Gen. Mick Ryan

My latest interview about #Ukraine, the trajectory of peace talks as well as implications for European & Pacific security affairs, now on @listentotimesradio.bsky.social
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Roberta Flack and Gwen McCrae both leaving us days apart - rest in power your legacies live on #robertaflack #soulpower

Vital research by Pete, Vicky Spratt & @sdelahunty.bsky.social

Sickening that some companies have been able to find a niche extracting profit from the huge demand on councils to provide temporary accommodation

As one councillor says in Vicky's i piece “providers have councils over a barrel”

Ex-Reform UK Wales leader accused of taking Russian bribes The ex-MEP and former UKIP Wales leader made favourable statements about Russia for money, a court hears.

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former leader of Reform UK in Wales has appeared in court accused of accepting bribes in exchange for making statements in the European Parliament that would benefit Russia, a court has heard

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Putin’s Three Years of Humiliation The Russian president can’t win his war against Ukraine unless he persuades its allies to betray it.

Putin planned to take Kyiv in three days, but he couldn't take Kyiv in three years.
The only way Putin wins now—the only way he finally succeeds in destroying Ukraine’s sovereignty—is by persuading Ukraine’s allies to abandon Ukraine.
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I don't think anyone could possibly have had Jacob Rees-Mogg's daughter doing a live tarot reading for a mortified Michael Gove on GBeebies on their 2025 bingo card.

We are living through some strange fever dream. ~AA

I take it he’s never spoken to anyone from Ireland - but that didn’t stop him setting up his business there post Brexit 😳