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Oof. Thats a nearly 40 point Lab to Reform swing

submitted 13 hours ago • 14 comments

"Brooke Nichols, an associate professor of global health at Boston University, has estimated that these cuts have already resulted in about 300,000 deaths, most of them of children, and will most likely lead to significantly more by the end of the year."

submitted 10 hours ago • 54 comments

Phenomenal piece by @michellegoldberg.bsky.social here. (Gift link)

submitted 8 hours ago • 90 comments

Musk did irreversible damage to the US civil service, soft power, science, education. His teams stole data and broke the law."I was on drugs and had family trouble" is not an excuse. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/30/u...

submitted 3 hours ago • 39 comments

Prioritise growth by cutting core research funding. Because as everyone knows core research doesn’t do anything for growth 🙄

submitted 12 hours ago • 12 comments

New data show that before Trump's attack, the State Department was denying record numbers of foreign students. In FY 2024, 41% of students already accepted to US universities were denied. Trump's assault may be the final blow that permanently disrupts the skilled immigrant pipeline for America.

submitted 4 hours ago • 2 comments

Ukraine makes c.4m drones pa, maybe 10% use fibre, typically in lengths of 5 to 20 km, or more. These and equivalent Russian fibres take centuries to degrade. These super tough lines will complicate post conflict cleanup, endanger wildlife and are a source of PFAS: ceobs.org/plastic-poll...

submitted 3 hours ago • 0 comments

Trump has now pardoned NINE Republican congressmen convicted of bribery, corruption or financial crimes.

submitted 21 hours ago • 8 comments

Remember when Trump claimed the Biden administration wasn’t doing enough to help North Carolina recover from Hurricane Helene? Well, his administration just denied the state’s request for continued FEMA relief assistance. This hypocrisy isn’t just staggering. It’s cruel.

submitted 21 hours ago • 96 comments

Five eye care companies generated the same profits in one year as those running all 100 NHS PFI schemes. Average profit margins for NHS work are 32%, and in one case 43%. www.theguardian.com/society/2025....

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

ha ha

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

The Venn diagram of Big-C vs Little-c just dissolved. Obsequious soliciting for the win, and let's give the Overton Window another hard shove.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

brace yourself for a long scroll backwards. sigh.

submitted 17 hours ago • 0 comments

I do love this chart A bit like the Brexit benefits blank sheet of paper.

submitted 20 hours ago • 0 comments

'We will come back to the subject of Gaza .' 'I hear your passion'.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Presidential.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

Well. Sad.

submitted 18 hours ago • 0 comments

The assault on science continues as the fascists try to discredit real #science and create their own fake "journals" to publish pseudoscience that would otherwise be rejected. www.politico.com/news/2025/05...

submitted 2 days ago • 1 comment

Some good California #water news. Lake Oroville, one of the largest reservoirs, is full. www.sfgate.com/bayarea/arti...

submitted 2 days ago • 8 comments

Appalling treatment of Australian woman seeking to visit husband in USA www.news.com.au/travel/trave...

submitted 6 days ago • 28 comments

President Trump's response to former President Biden's cancer is that he aced his cognitive tests

submitted 10 days ago • 18 comments

Alistair Bunkall: "This storage facility at the hospital was hit, destroying medicine. The hospitals director said that most of the supplies were for dialysis patients"

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

It's a really good piece by @officialedballs.bsky.social et al. For me the biggest insight is the importance of dynamism - and it's also the aspect of economic growth that Labour securonomics sits less easily with. Also check out the @resfoundation.bsky.social 2030 report chapter on the topic.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

".. at least 44 people have been killed [overnight], most of those in the space of about half an hour we understand from local sources, when there were Israeli strikes that hit a school being used as a shelter for displaced people" Israel is a terrorist state

submitted 10 days ago • 3 comments

My great mic-drop moment was hearing the BBC 'both-sides' Boris Johnson's decision to cancel Parliament when it interfered with his plans for Brexit. I learned then that a media organisation that would 'both sides' the suspension of democracy could 'both sides' anything - even genocide.

submitted 10 days ago • 8 comments

Yet another BBC failure on the UK-EU Deal.

submitted 10 days ago • 27 comments

"Since 2005, the frequency of flood occurrences along the USNEC has been substantially influenced by the weakening of AMOC, accounting for ~20 to 50% of all flooding events across different TG [Tide Guage] stations" www.science.org/doi/10.1126/...

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

The US is now almost alone in climate change denial. Worse, the Trump administration is destroying even our capacity to understand it www.nytimes.com/2025/05/19/c...

submitted 10 days ago • 44 comments

'Sorry kids. Not your fault. Sorry. You'll manage. Some of us had good times, though! Honestly, we had no idea - it was just normal. You'd have done the same..?'

submitted 10 days ago • 0 comments

🧵 I’ve talked a lot about disordered discourse, conspiracies, polarisation, denialism. But maybe the better question is: why does this keep happening? Why does our shared reality keep fracturing? What are the drivers I talk about as a dimension of disordered discourse?

submitted 14 days ago • 25 comments

I frequently present data on population change but hadn't seen a visual that shows population loss in such a dark way. The short video shows population loss of Indigenous American populations over relatively short periods. Source: buff.ly/elJtXa0

submitted 18 days ago • 2 comments

Illuminating thread.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Starmer's language was deplorable. It was grotesquely offensive, accusing people who have brought their gifts to this country of doing "incalculable" "damage"; & politically foolish, in endorsing Farage's claims of an establishment conspiracy. But bad analogies with Powell miss the key problem. 🧵

submitted 16 days ago • 41 comments

My Ukrainian refugee may be low paid (she got a zero hours hospitality contract, waitressing, within 6 weeks of arriving in the U.K., quickly moved to full time (+ overtime due to staff shortages) but is now on a full time contract). But she isn’t “low skilled”.

submitted 15 days ago • 3 comments

One of the works last great biodiversity hotspots. Home to the tallest tree in Asia and a variety of big cats. And big earthquakes.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Case study on the complexity of the immigration rules. How are employees or employers supposed to understand this stuff or predict outcomes? It's appalling. And the amount of lost time and effort -- and therefore cost -- is incredible.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

The man described as a political genius by the BBCs Justin Webb in November 2022, for the damage he can do with a single word or phrase. Hmm.

submitted 15 days ago • 0 comments

Trump is on a legit corruption tour of the Middle East.

submitted 16 days ago • 2 comments

Donald Trump -- who insists that college students voicing sympathy for the Palestinian people are "siding with terrorists" -- says it's fine for him personally to accept the bribe of a $400,000,000 luxury jet from the Middle Eastern nation that long funded Hamas and the Muslim Brotherhood.

submitted 16 days ago • 33 comments

There's always a tweet.

submitted 16 days ago • 755 comments

The Covid-19 Bereaved Families for Justice group said the UK’s death toll was down to “political decisions rooted in arrogance” and a “dangerous belief that Britain was somehow different”. www.channel4.com/news/covid-i...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

My Dad died 15 months ago & spent last year of his life in a London nursing home. He was bed bound, blind, deaf, with dementia and various health issues. Almost all his carers & nurses were non UK born and they were all brilliant. They treated my mother like family (and still do to this day) 1/3

submitted 17 days ago • 47 comments

"The government's argument sounds plausible. There's just one problem. It doesn't fit the facts. And the government knows it." www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

submitted 17 days ago • 18 comments

In the spirit of @stephenkb.bsky.social ‘s image of public opinion on immigration as “I want a pony in my flat with no costs attached” public opinion on social care seems to be “I want a magical care machine that costs nothing”

submitted 19 days ago • 14 comments

'you need to watch it a few times' is about right

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments