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With policy ambition, this could be a parliament of rapidly falling child poverty. Significant policy change could lower child poverty numbers below 4 million again.

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5 years ago I was ride or die for taxing the wealthy because I wanted to fund social programs now I'm ride or die for taxing the wealthy because they are termites chewing away at the foundations of democracy and the social programs will be a nice bonus

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personal liberties like.....changing your gender, supporting Palestine, vocally opposing decisions taken by the government? those personal liberties?

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Good on @johnswinney.bsky.social for saying straight out that Reform is a far-right party ... it's more than most other politicians and the vast majority of the media have the guts to do. We need to wake up and speak the damn truth about what we see before us www.heraldscotland.com/news/2496569...

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It’s been pointed out in the comments but this photo is from the 1984 miners strike. Famously a time in which the country was very united.

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US Science has been under sustained attack for the last month. I've been thinking about the vulnerabilities in UK science. In a new post, I've imagined a dystopian but possible future for UK science - as a way for prompting discussions on how we can protect it. open.substack.com/pub/christin...

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Today, @coopparty.party.coop has launched Community Britain, a campaign recognising the people and places that bring pride to communities, and the serious solutions they offer to our politics and our country. party.coop/community/

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A lot to welcome here- and for all levels of our government to crib from if it wants to stand firm against the far right and its brand of pseudoscience. I hope this is a sign they will also do the right thing on the 3rd of March.

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The CCC is clear – net zero is essential for the the health of our climate and a chance to cut bills and raise living standards. This report challenges those trying to politicise climate action and hold Britain back. Cutting our reliance on fossil fuels can cut bills by £700.

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It is hard to keep going in a world where the entire economy is a scam (always has been, I know) but the last decade of it has been defined by: -Algorithms that make everything you use worse -Virtual reality that no one has ever wanted. -IRL Monopoly Money -$1 billion monkey cartoons -AOL chatbots

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'The River Clyde used to be the lifeblood of Glasgow (...) and it could be again.' In their podcast, 'Who Owns the Clyde', @louisewelsh00.bsky.social of UofG Creative Writing & Architect @judebarber.bsky.social launch a citizen investigation into the iconic river. www.youtube.com/watch?v=uQSF...

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Got mine submitted

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This was an infuriating process and has burned away too much of my afternoon, BUT there is STILL time to respond and if you are an artist, writer, maker of any kind or just care about these things, it would be a good idea to do so.

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Could someone please put this under the nose of #keirstarmer BEFORE he bets the farm with his ‘infallible roulette system’?

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"Waiting for Gorey" is my tribute to Edward Gorey (with a dash of Samuel Beckett) for the Phantasmagorey show at Custom House, Leith in Edinburgh. The show features forty other artists and is open for two more days. www.instagram.com/phantasmagoreyshow/

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"everybody in the world, in ten years’ time, is going to be more productive than the most productive person in the world" FFS please can someone competent in this subject get through to the govt @drkatedevlin.bsky.social

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I would say remotely competent historians understand that major events in history are historically shaped by men born into wealth and power and lots of them were idiots. (Caligula: psychopathic dumbass!)

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Expect to see a lot more of this 👇 in the coming months & years. If Europe is at least pretending to have a serious conversation about life without a US security guarantee, then the same conversation has to be had about tech dependence on the US. Whether anything will happen is another matter.

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anyway the Sahra Wagenknecht Alliance decided the problem was media appearances and taking an "anti-woke" stance on gender and immigration and lost; and the rejuvenated Linke (also, in Berlin, shed of significant Antideutsch deadweight) organized, canvassed, and won.

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"The real moon outshone the paper one, and, from a distance, it was impossible to distinguish the light flooding through the film scenes from the light flooding through stained glass." My optimistic-ish @heraldscotland.bsky.social call-to-arms on Glasgow's future. (with HTs to Italo Calvino).

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Important details from Starmer’s £200m Grangemouth announcement. The refinery closure is factored in, meaning more than 400 direct job losses, with thousands more in the supply chain, will go ahead. There are some important protections offered but we need to ask why this has taken so long?

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Enjoying the new Alan Dimmick zines published by Café Royal Books. Interesting selection. Hoping that @peteralanross.bsky.social can track down everyone in this photo from Willowbank Primary (1981) like he did for Oscar Marzaroli’s Castlemilk Lads.

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Some troublemaker quoted in the Herald today. I'm afraid I take issue with Anas' response. The Equality Act allows trans-exclusionary spaces only as a proportionate means of achieving a legitimate aim. And the Peggie case on which he and Jackie inappropriately passed comment is about H&S law.

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The best case scenario here is that when the hack writes “Source close to Downing St” he means a bampot they found on the street corner who had just proclaimed himself God Emperor of All London’s Pigeons.

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The Competition and Markets Authority has today released its long-awaited report on the infant & follow-on formula market, confirming that prices have soared & robust interventions are needed to better support families in informed decision making around product choice. https://buff.ly/3EEBOjK

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“When I look back our beach has a long straight line – right down the middle – like the spine of a book. “It is where I dragged my coffin. “I use his oars.” —in Jenni Fagan’s LUCKENBOOTH, the Devil’s daughter rows herself to Edinburgh in a coffin #BookWormSat www.thesocial.com/an-extract-l...

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Always slightly worry the articles about how it's impossible to make art if you're from a working class background tend to reinforce the thing they say they deplore

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My cartoon for today’s @guardian books.

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Interesting to read about a part of the city I know very well. Undoubtedly a real achievement- the question as always is, how do those benefits get redistributed? www.glasgowbell.co.uk/glasgow-secr...

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I'm not having Fraser Nelson playing dumb on the rise of racism on the right after years spent printing Murray, Liddle, Taki and Shriver. I literally had a DM row with him years ago where I said this would happen.

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Why do people who claim to remember their past lives always seem to be reincarnations of Helen of Troy or an accused Salem witch or someone heroic on the Titanic, and never a random cabbage-selling wench from the 1500s who died in her sleep at the ripe auld age of 39 and never learned to read

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Basically this. We need to rebuild our media landscape and get a Hell of a lot smarter. And quickly.

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I'm begging people to remember that 'meritocracy' was coined for a work of satirical fiction. It is not a real thing, and, as the satire suggested, defining 'merit' as a standalone measurable individual quality is impossible.

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Anas Sarwar chose to bang on about public sector inefficiency, aping the language of Trump and Musk, whilst Grangemouth workers were outside Scottish Labour Party protesting in defence of their jobs and their future. That was a political choice.

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By far my smartest idea of the day was to blame AI for my second smartest idea.

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Rediscovered Artemisia Gentileschi painting goes on display in Scotland for the first time artdaily.com/news/178294/...

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