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This @thepolycrisis.bsky.social newsletter first paragraph omg (“imperial gangsterism” 🔥) — and does not even include everything

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Awful situation across the University sector 🥲 qmucu.org/qmul-transfo...

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Someone needs to invent some kind of online calculator whereby we Brits can put in our recent healthcare appointments/meds/experiences and it’ll calculate what it would cost on average in the USA. Just to hammer home how bloody lucky we are to have the NHS and how fiercely we need to protect it.

submitted 82 days ago • 172 comments

Bath Christmas market and the owner of these doggies let me take a picture -expression on face of doggie at the back 😂😂

submitted 90 days ago • 1 comment

Pretty winter morning sunshine through the trees in the park

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

On the streets of Liverpool, there is a humanitarian crisis A perfect storm of problems means more and more people are finding themselves homeless & sleeping rough & it’s getting worse - it’s a situation playing out across the country A difficult 🧵 on what I’ve found reporting on this situation

submitted 97 days ago • 75 comments

Echoes of our privatisation of public services in UK. The Tories want even less public interest considerations as they rule in favour of the wealthy. www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...

submitted 96 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer is clearly beholden to the US and his corporate donors, one of whom is BlackRock, itself heavily invested in the Nevatim corridor and the annexation of Gaza’ gas fields.

submitted 98 days ago • 0 comments

The latest issue of Legal Studies is now online! A range of fascinating pieces! www.cambridge.org/core/journal...

submitted 126 days ago • 1 comment

Devastating report but some small reason for optimism as “There are political leaders, as well as activists, scientists, renewable energy innovators and regular citizens doing all they can to turn things around…They deserve our support and our partnership.” bylinetimes.com/2024/11/20/c...

submitted 100 days ago • 0 comments

Tax due if parents hand on £3m house: £940k Tax due if parents hand on a £3m farm: £0 A reminder of significant tax advantage to farmers vs everyone else AFTER these changes

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Heart-breaking photo essay on women’s lives in Afghanistan: “their hearts are tightened not only by the weight of repression but by the indifference of a world that seems to have forgotten them. Their stories deserve to be heard.” www.theguardian.com/global-devel...

submitted 106 days ago • 0 comments

Sunlight and shadows on an autumn forest path.

submitted 108 days ago • 0 comments

Trump tapped into people’s fears and immiseration. He exploited their anger and frustration. The Democrats offered nothing, no real change. Of course, Trump is lying but people are desperate for change.

submitted 113 days ago • 0 comments

After yesterday’s news here’s a little picture to bring some cheer. Not a brilliant photo but I managed to get the lovely squirrel to look in my direction for a second 😍

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

We're on the cusp of seeing the effect play out of an extended lack of access to dental care. With preventative and ordinary care unavailable to many, they have to seek out accessible routes which are emergency care.

submitted 112 days ago • 0 comments

Lou Haigh’s comments on P&O explicitly represent govt policy on fire and rehire and PM’s views. It’s not her own view, it’s the government’s stated position. Starmer should have the integrity to stand by her or ditch the policy.

submitted 139 days ago • 7 comments

The ministers were right to criticise P&O Ferries. I remember the Parliamentary Select Committee hearings back in March 2022 - such disdain for the workforce from the CEO. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 139 days ago • 0 comments

Excellent article on the profit maximisation and financial engineering tricks of the private equity firms, often at the expense of the most vulnerable. Greedy and immoral vulture capitalism. www.theguardian.com/business/202...

submitted 141 days ago • 0 comments

Europe’s environmental programme faces a backlash from political and business interests fixated on growing the economy | Natalie Bennett

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This is absolute madness. Carbon capture and storage has failed time and again. Labour has slashed reliable green programmes, to pour vast sums of our money into a complete crock. The only possible explanation is lobbying by fossil fuel companies.🧵 www.theguardian.com/environment/...

submitted 147 days ago • 63 comments

“The problem for the Labour leader is that amid all the downbeat mood, his Government does already have a somewhat promising story to tell.” I just hope the promise becomes reality and has results that will help to clear up the mess we are in. bylinetimes.com/2024/09/24/k...

submitted 156 days ago • 1 comment

“We have to tell the residents of north Gaza that they have one week to evacuate the territory, which then becomes a military zone, [a zone] in which every figure is a target” An explicit announcement that they will execute every human in north Gaza - another statement of genocidal intent today.

submitted 158 days ago • 2 comments

These donations were declared by Starmer pre-GE, so where was the interest then when it actually mattered? Especially when he’d point blank refused to declare donors to his Labour Leadership campaign - which were as expected sketchy AF. Y’all didn’t care then OR most recently. Report on that.

submitted 161 days ago • 1 comment

The whole neoliberal system is inhumane. This is one important area of that failing system. Compassion for everyone in it - the job seekers and those who can help them- sorely needed. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 161 days ago • 0 comments

It’s very difficult to mend broken trust. This new government has got its work cut out already. There is no room for the naivety on display in these early days. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 161 days ago • 2 comments

Probably the greatest example of "wow, glad someone funded that when we needed it" in social scientific history. An amazing decade of work that made a real and lasting impact.

submitted 162 days ago • 0 comments

How is this acceptable? It makes no sense.

submitted 164 days ago • 2 comments

Interesting happenings on the left. I'm watching this. Green Party is shifting left. Corbyn and the Indy MP alliance is left, plus they're the unofficial Opposition. Now there's talk of a new leftwing party. It does need to happen if we don't want Farage for PM. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

The betrayal of Jeremy Corbyn and the emergence of a shady character called Keir Starmer www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 165 days ago • 1 comment

“I don’t feel fearful. That’s how they want you to be.” Led by Donkeys speaking truth to power. Their creativity is humorous, daring and might inspire more direct action. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

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submitted 165 days ago • 2 comments

The extraordinary collapse of some state functions at the end of the Sunak Ministry should haunt the Conservative Party forever. It's a very long road back from here. www.thetimes.com/article/eddc...

submitted 166 days ago • 1 comment