woodscolt79.bsky.social
Spinsterdom, socialism, sunsets.
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Newham has the highest proportion of residents in TA by far. For every 1,000 households in the borough, 52 are homeless and living in TA.
But in just about every borough, the problem is acute.
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haha one of mine is:
<any mention of Dorset>
In Dorset?
I'd recommend it to anyone!
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That is because both look like fake people in photos but in very distinct ways. Starmer always looks like a cardboard cutout and Trump looks like a waxwork model.
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Cross-checking whether a minister was a "trainee solicitor" or a "solicitor" when they updated their LinkedIn 15 years ago probably takes up a lot of time to be fair, and who can say that's not more vital to the national interest.
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The current Minister for Defence literally produced a Labour party report not three years ago saying the MoD was 'uniquely failing' and that any extra defence spending would be absorbed in a 'black hole in procurement'. AFAICT not a single journo has asked about this.
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"Without a revolution in the way the MoD controls costs, there is a serious risk that the extra £16.5B in capital funding [...] will simply be swallowed by this black hole in current procurement programmes." Has this black hole closed up? Or is the extra £13 bn also going to be swallowed by it?
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Yes, please let me know if I have to open a news app before I've had my coffee, something I otherwise try and avoid!
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THANK YOU this is driving me absolutely crazy, not least because there's loads of data on this from different countries but it's not reported at anything like the same volume as men's move towards the right.
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Genuinely heartening, I hope other parties are taking note.
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There was this story about Spain the other week: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/f...
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Agree! but the other thing that would be good is if there was as much discourse around the fact that young women are moving to the left (borne out by polling and several studies IIRC) as there is coverage of the 'crisis of masculinity' as men go to the right.
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This piece about the NHS’s responsibility for the preventable death of the writer’s brother is really heartbreaking. And it will also really resonate for anyone who has had to seek care through NHS 111 — which as the piece points out, replaced NHS Direct, a service staffed by actual nurses, in 2014.
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in order to have more soldiers, FFS!
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But the idea that we're in such a huge crisis that we have to significantly increase military spending but NOT such a huge crisis that anyone should pay more tax is just bonkers. Bloody hell.
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If she claimed that she had to raise taxes in order to increase defence spending I would protest it on pacifist grounds but it would probably limit inflation and possibly even deliver growth.
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Oh I think you'll really enjoy it Martin. She's very good and funny about the French, without being clichéd or patronising. And loads of great descriptions of good meals.
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My mum has the Bernina that my Bernina replaced, dating from the mid-70s. Also still going strong.
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I also had no idea!