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There's not much point recruiting sb who freezes at the sight of blood to work in a makeshift tent hospital.

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That's the spirit of the pure at heart, but the road is long and hard, and the skies over Gaza are snuffing out the lights. Not everything is a popularity contest. I need my GP to be competent, responsible and to work in the best interests of my health.

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... Zionism, Atlanticism & military posturing to stay in the club.

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There've only been 7 Labour PMs in total: McDonald, Atlee, Wilson, Callaghan, Blair, Brown & Starmer. Anyone who read Parliamentary Socialism decades ago knows it's always the same creed when it comes to foreign policy ... www.dailymail.co.uk/home/index.h...

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Inequality is the problem and people will give up and social relations do and will become more toxic and hateful when life chances are blocked.

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A nice social reformist academic assessment of socioeconomic inequality in the UK, which is some of the highest in the collapsing Western world. Inequality in income, wealth, health, education, working conditions, race, gender, disabled access, death. sticerd.lse.ac.uk/dps/case/cr/...

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Και όσοι φεύγουν να μείνουν καταβάθος ήθελαν ...... Και όσοι μένουν, το φευγιό έχουν στήν καρδιά τους .... Νικός www.mirror.co.uk/sport/footba...

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Merseyside of course has it's own ongoing investigations into fraud, bribery and corruption, does it not Mr Lawless?

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In Phillip's case it was the contract for prisons awarded to Weston College in 2009. Hence years of the cold silent treatment.

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Def of crony capitalism: "an economic system characterised by close, mutually advantageous relationships between business leaders and government officials." www.thewestonmercury.co.uk/news/2511469...

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How much would it have cost to make former MOD sites fit for human habitation and well run? Perhaps, if they hadn't been handed over to profit-seeking corporations to run that might have been a more cost effective solution. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

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I'm just wondering on this VE Day what happened to the party that gave us the NHS, council housing, free education and "women's rights"? www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article...

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Just imagine a bunch of Alan Sugar's hapless business apprentices with a broad Yorkshire accent and not one word of French led by NF turning up at Cherbourg on VE Day with an enormous block of Double Gloucester cheese to sell to the French. Not a good look, is it?

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Don't let anyone tell you that Nigel Farage and his Leave-voting, UKIP-Brexit-wrecking, Reform-damaging SS "Great Britain" ship is patriotic. It is the exact opposite of patriotism.

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Brexit has severely damaged the UK TEFL industry, as well as opportunities for English pupils to learn foreign languages with most MFL courses now confined to the Russell group of universities. www.theguardian.com/education/20...

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I'm wondering if the moral panic around children's mental health, child poverty & youth crime is beginning to register with the policymakers of decades of socioeconomic inequality & whether your mortgage & your shiny new SUV on the driveway was worth it. news.sky.com/story/fourte...

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Toxic inequality! www.huffingtonpost.gr/entry/ekrexe...

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Student tuition fees & the complete destruction of adult education has also prevented people from escaping the perpetual poverty doom loop. The political establishment and the media that promotes the propaganda of that agenda is to blame.

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Almost 2 decades of brutal neoliberal policies causing toxic inequality is fuelling racism, misogyny & violence in this country. Much of that resentment is centred around the lack of housing choice & job opportunities. www.hartlepoolmail.co.uk/lifestyle/ho...

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Somehow I don't think young people need lessons in morality from a party of exceptionally offensive far-right racist thugs & economic vandals who would end free healthcare in this country and replace it with a far more expensive US insurance-based model. news.sky.com/story/reform...

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Well today, I've been diagnosed with prediabetes and severe renal failure from excessive substance misuse and I'm crossing the finishing line in the global poverty index in last place behind the Rohingya refugees in Myanmar.

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And the predatory visitors eyeing up the real estate after evicting a Palestinian family from their home. Where we are today - The Israeli settlers driving the Palestinians out of their historic homeland. www.middleeasteye.net/discover/lou...

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And if you are as disillusioned, depressed, angry & upset as I am you can now vote for the sexist, ageist misogyny & racism of the billionaire class that gave us Brexit, masquerading as the down-to-earth, pub & crisps populism of the common man.

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Well, there's nothing quite like the sexist, ageist misogyny, ideological intolerance and reverse snobbery of the labour movement, is there? But one can always vote for the sexist, ageist misogyny and snobbery of the Tories and their enablers the Lib Dems.

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Meanwhile, every commentator from Westminster to Holyrood has beaten the drum of fearmongering & anger with the same scapegoating rhetoric aimed at those without the power to change their lives or circumstances.

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Government, HE & FE institutions & local authorities literally abandoned the poor and the ageing to long term unemployment and sickness.

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Since 2010 official policy of all parties has been to prioritise getting younger cohorts into employment via apprenticeship schemes while keeping interests rates low and the housing market buoyant.

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In the last year alone, the number of age discrimination complaints to employment tribunals has rocketed by a shocking 74%, hitting 3,668 in 2020, compared to from 2,112 in 2019. metro.co.uk/2021/08/21/b...

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Είμαι οτι καλύτερο μου 'εχει συβεί www.theartnewspaper.com/2025/04/28/m...

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When a national economy distributes its costs & benefits & the life chances of its citizens so dispropportionately, it no longer has the right ot think of itself as a legitimate democracy, nor demand the alligience of those it has marginalised and excluded.

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Currently a rich trans woman who can afford the risk of legal costs can sue for discrimination if she is denied employment or housing, but a poor homeless woman cannot.

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It's a hollow victory for feminists when so many women in this country cannot afford to even take their employer to court or access safe spaces based on their biological sex.

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What will the UK Supreme Court gender ruling mean in practice? A legal expert explains theconversation.com/what-will-th...

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Ultimately it is for the law of precedence to map out a compromise based on a careful assessment of the boundaries of both gender rights and those of biological sex.

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However, there are clearly grey areas in that there is a valid argument by feminists that women's safe spaces could be compromised if trans women are permitted to enter those spaces. There are also clear cases in which biological sex takes precedence as in women's reproductive rights.

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On the trans debate, my position is as follows: "gender identity" is a protected characteristic under the Equality Act of 2010, and therefore both trans men and women should be able to challenge discriminatory behaviour on the basis of their chosen gender identity.

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I'll repeat this again even if it is a boring anomaly which does not fit neatly into some left-right ideological framework. This issue is about the distribution of fair life chances in North Somerset.

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Many were women who have paid a massive gender penalty under the Tories. This is not just an auditing exercise. It's about the the distribution of fair life chances in North Somerset.

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The point is that Weston College was being run on the basis of excessive executive bonuses and financial irregularities, while a large proportion of its staff were agency workers being paid on an hourly basis without the contractual safeguards of full time staff. feweek.co.uk/weston-chair...

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It has created a country of completely soulless effing c**ts, and I have nothing but contempt for its politicians & vast swathes of the electorate who really couldn't give a toss about anything, let alone genocide in Israel.

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When I say I hate Britain, these are some of the reasons why. Since 2010 & the election of the coalition government it has plunged millions into severe poverty & forced the poorest & most vulnerable people to endure unnecessarily brutal social processes. www.gbnews.com/news/dwp-ref...

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No one single individual can comprehend the scale of this scandal if it is not accepted that women's employment rights have been violated by a range of bad faith actors: from education institutions, to HR companies, to local councils, and businesses etc www.thisismoney.co.uk/money/pensio...

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It doesn't get upset about a woman being denied the right to vote, being sacked for having a gynaecological health problem (employment rights), being abused and assaulted while being made homeless. It gets upset about the bloody English flag www.gbnews.com/politics/st-...

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If someone is being persistently targeted including being violently assaulted and abused in a local community to the point of being driven out of that community, that is not a non-crime hate crime. It is a hate crime. www.msn.com/en-gb/news/u...

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