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lesleyhw.bsky.social
Elderwoman who loves writing, reading, travelling and unraveling life, one step at a time
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A tiny 2% wealth tax, on 20k people would raise £24 billion per year to spend on the things that urgently need fixing in our country. We need some tax justice - the more money you have the less tax you pay and vice versa - that’s absurd.

submitted 39 days ago • 60 comments

Gisele Pelicot would be my nominee for "Person of the Year". Harrowing, but characteristically excellent, dispatch from @victoriapeckham.bsky.social here. www.thetimes.com/world/europe...

submitted 87 days ago • 3 comments

Missing man #Granton #Edinburgh

submitted 91 days ago • 0 comments

FACT OF THE DAY. 1 December 1955. Rosa Parks refused to give up her bus seat to a white man in racially segregated Montgomery, Alabama. Though she was not the first person to do this, her highly publicised protest became a landmark moment in the drive for black civil rights in the USA.

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Pat McFadden: "Child poverty is really important to us ... we're ambitious on child poverty" Victoria Derbyshire: "ending the two-child limit would lift 400,000 children out of poverty" Pat McFadden: "We didn't promise that at the election" #BBCLauraK

submitted 92 days ago • 8 comments

Pat McFadden eradicates any new Labour plans to promote child development by saying a report on child poverty can wait until next year. No rush then.

submitted 92 days ago • 0 comments

A remarkable stat: Heidi Alexander’s appointment as Transport Secretary means the cabinet is now 100% state-educated for the first time in history.

submitted 94 days ago • 113 comments

How privatisation works (and Thames Water is just the latest example). 1. A government takes a national asset built up with taxpayers' money and the work of public servants over many years, and hands it, for a fraction of its value, to a private company. 2. In doing so, it creates a monopoly. 🧵

submitted 105 days ago • 174 comments

For any other news and politics refugees, this is the place to start. A refreshing balm of familiar faces.

submitted 110 days ago • 2 comments

Hello everyone. I am now on this platform for social media. Do please repost this message so that more people can find me!

submitted 110 days ago • 539 comments