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Important that the collapse of the welfare state gets a mention in this - as the article says, back in the day there was more state support that gave artists breathing room to create. www.theguardian.com/culture/2025...

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History will not be kind to those who sold their souls to back Trump - and prominent among them is the pitiful Boris Johnson, who just six days ago ignored all the blatant evidence to argue that the US president was not betraying Ukraine.

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Putin says Trump must go further before he’ll even agree to meet. Putin is entirely in the driving seat. The US has alienated its own allies, given Russia nearly all of what it wanted, bought Putin’s warped view of reality, and can’t even guarantee a meeting. The art of the deal, indeed.

submitted 3 days ago • 114 comments

European Parliament member 👇🏽

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Some of the most shameful comments uttered by a president in my lifetime. Trump is siding with the aggressor, blaming the victim. In the Kremlin they must be jumping for joy. I’d like to hope Republicans, who used to believe in resisting tyranny, would disavow the things Trump is saying & doing.

submitted 4 days ago • 44 comments

A dictatorship hosting another dictatorship to negotiate with an aspiring dictatorship about the future of a democracy that’s not represented.

submitted 4 days ago • 133 comments

Hi All, just sent out my weekend update, free as always. This is arguably the most momentous week in European history since 1991 or even 1945. The US pivoted this week to be a friend of dictators who is forcing unilateral concessions on democracies. open.substack.com/pub/phillips...

submitted 6 days ago • 51 comments

With vaccination under attack worth reading this, which I think is the most understated powerful thing Roald Dahl ever wrote.

submitted 7 days ago • 4 comments

Most of Britain won't be taking any lessons in British values from Trump/Vance It is a British value to oppose dictators in Europe, not to reward them. It is a British value to accept it if you lose. To turn up & congratulate the winner, not to sulk + incite violence to try to overturn democracy

submitted 8 days ago • 58 comments

20 years ago in Trafalgar Square, Nelson Mandela challenged us to act against injustice and poverty. His message must resonate again as we defend and build humanitarian movement.

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I would expect Gillray (1805) to be a popular reference point

submitted 9 days ago • 7 comments

So depressing, so grotesque, so humiliating, to watch the West's betrayal of Ukraine, the shafting of democracy and the abject appeasement of Russia's war criminals yet again.

submitted 10 days ago • 1 comment

@miketapp.bsky.social - Hi Mike this is the issue highlighted in my recent email to you. A major concern for health inequality in Dover and Deal. Look forward to your response. Thanks.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

My piece reflecting on life, love, loss and learning disabilities following the death of my daughter www.dailymail.co.uk/femail/artic...

submitted 14 days ago • 16 comments

We're excited to be hosting the @separatedoors1.bsky.social Producers Online Symposium on Wed 26 March, part of the Making Tomorrow's Theatre project! Find out more here bit.ly/ProducersSym... #LEVEL #SeparateDoors #Symposium #Producers #TheatreForAll #Disability #LearningDisability #ACESupported

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One thing we learned from today’s #PMQ’s is that #FarageRiots collapses under the slightest pressure. #PoliticsLive

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

Remember when conservatives used to make a strong case for free trade - instead of abasing themselves before protectionist, authoritarian bullies?

submitted 20 days ago • 17 comments

NEW: One in four children in England need social care services by the age of 18, either for health-related services or child protection The findings of a new study have sparked warnings over the impact of poverty and austerity on children By me, for the Observer www.theguardian.com/society/2025...

submitted 20 days ago • 8 comments

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Here's the speech if you haven't heard it. 13 minutes of your time. Share it with your American friends and neighbours, because they won't see it otherwise. Circulate it in Mexico and Denmark, France and the UK, Panama and Germany, Poland and Estonia, and especially -- especially -- Ukraine.

submitted 20 days ago • 195 comments

OK, annual health checks for people with learning disabilities don't reach everyone they should, & aren't always of a high standard - surely that's a reason to improve not abolish them. One example of how to do that is the story of Harry and his mum quoted in the article @mumof3amigos.bsky.social

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Trump is a One-Dimensional Negotiator I'm going to get a little wonky and write about Donald Trump and negotiations. For those who don't know, I'm an adjunct professor at Indiana University - Robert H. McKinney School of Law and I teach negotiations. Okay, here goes.

submitted 45 days ago • 29 comments

Petroc Trelawney on Radio 3 marking Holocaust Memorial Day, from Auschwitz, very appropriately with music, or musicians connected to those terrible events. Remembering also the hundreds of thousands of disabled people, including people with serious mental illness, who were killed by the Nazis.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

Holocaust Memorial Day: remembering learning disabled people www.georgejulian.co.uk/2025/01/27/h... 3mins positivity and hope from @blueappletheatre.bsky.social “This better future did not come by accident, or by luck, but by will, by struggle and it will not stay by accident" #LearningDisability

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Trump has gagged the CDC, but not me. So I'm sharing this. www.cjonline.com/story/news/p...

submitted 28 days ago • 567 comments

Brilliant satirical cover from Private Eye, mocking spineless media organisations and journalists who submit and cower in the face of power 👏

submitted 31 days ago • 425 comments

Remember all these headlines describing a brief rise in government borrowing costs as being "market mayhem", followed by a week of demands for Rachel Reeves to quit? Well one week later and it turns out UK gilts are now outperforming every other G7 country this year, aside from the US

submitted 35 days ago • 139 comments

"An internal DWP impact assessment that has yet to be published indicated that up to 100,000 disabled people could be pushed into absolute poverty by the measures."

submitted 37 days ago • 6 comments

Working today at Sands Film Studios and with this rather lovely combo. Camera, new. Lens, newly cased but 1950’s MGM original. Camera Mount? 1950’s ? 1960’s ? Whatever, a thing of beauty and a joy to be in the same room.

submitted 47 days ago • 3 comments

This is a dangerous man, with a head harder than a rock. Children have died elsewhere because of his intransigence, and that's what he wants to bring here. No paywall for you today.

submitted 40 days ago • 26 comments

As the NHS nursing staff crisis continues, numbers in learning disability (LD) nursing have plummeted, with a 44% drop in LD nurses in the NHS in England between September 2009 and January 2024 #chooseldnursing

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