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Researcher. My views are my own - do not represent organizations. NIHR School for Primary Care Research @Exeter Justice and Violence Studies @Exeter #Qualitative #interaction #mental-health #SocialJustice #ClimateActionNow #StopArmingIsrael 🇬🇧 🇬🇷💚
Blair's think tank is funded by Larry Ellison (Oracle). Ellison is an enemy of democracy, building surveillance states and funds Israel's genocide.
He should be nowhere near public services.
The reason the middle-class media has not reported Hannah Spencer being attacked by right-wing transphobes is that it needs to preserve the nice, coffeee-round-the-kitchen-table, middle-class view of transphobia, not the thuggish fascist reality.
Thousands of people in the UK took to the streets to call out the corrupt US and Israel on their illegal war of aggression in Iran.
Thousands of people in Athens marched on the US embassy against the US and Israel’s illegal war of aggression on Iran.
treated image of Tony Blair, Larry Ellison, Donald Trump, Rupert Murdoch and Benjamin Netanyahu with the caption: "As Tony Blair criticises Starmer for not joining Trump’s war, read Carole Cadwalladr on Blair, Big Tech and the Israel connection"
As the right wing press praises Tony Blair for his "rebuke" of Keir Starmer for not supporting Donald Trump's war on Iran ("We should have backed America from the very beginning."), time to re-up @carolecadwalla.bsky.social's investigation into the Tony Blair Institute
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"The U.S. is being run by
gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth."…….
Former NATO commander and British General Sir Richard Shirreff delivers a stark warning for Britain to avoid being dragged into America's illegal war on Iran.
-Analyst News
Drill baby drill means burn baby burn
www.theguardian.com/environment/...
BP’s new CEO to take home £11.7m this year, more than double her predecessor.
Daily pay > annual median pay of UK employee.
CEO pay at one company is a benchmark for another. Others will want more.
Govts, BOE, CBI and other neoliberals talk about wage inflation, but silence on fat-cattery.
Musk, worth $829 billion, owns X.
Bezos, worth $234 billion, owns The Washington Post & Twitch.
Zuckerberg, worth $231 billion, owns Facebook, Instagram & WhatsApp.
And now Larry Ellison, worth $202 billion, is about to control CNN, CBS, TikTok & HBO.
Yes, this is oligarchy.
Will AI become smarter than humans?
If so, is humanity in danger?
I went to Silicon Valley to ask some of the leading AI experts that question.
Here’s what they had to say:
Isobel, a 49-year-old psychotherapist, shares her experience of suffering with debilitating menopause symptoms which forced her to step back from work.
"Scientists are trying to solve the mystery of whether global warming is speeding up" via @laurapaddison.bsky.social for @cnn.com. [I'm critical of the study, but we all agree on key point that planet will continue to warm until we stop burning fossil fuels]: www.cnn.com/2026/03/06/c...
Dear Shabana, I notice today that you referred to me in your speech on immigration at the IPPR think tank. You said: “A party leader should not be on the beaches of France encouraging people to make a perilous crossing on small boats.” I suppose I shouldn’t be surprised especially after the hateful Labour campaign in Gorton and Denton, but this is just the latest in a string of lies peddled by a discredited Government who intentionally fan the flames of racism and division. When I went to Calais, I was not there to encourage people to travel to the UK. I was there to see at first hand the suffering your Government and successive Governments have done in demonising migrants in a pathetic bid to pander to the base instincts of Reform and the flawed strategy of Morgan McSweeney. As you will know, if you even bothered to research my visit instead of taking Reform talking points, I was there to witness the brutality of families living in tents in freezing temperatures. I filled water tanks and picked up litter. What that visit did do is confirm my belief that if we are to smash the boat gangs and stop the boats, we need to offer safer and managed routes for migrants to come to this country. Showing compassion as a politician is not a crime. In fact, we need to see much more of it. It reminded me of a young MP who in October 2015 spent three days in Lesbos helping migrants fleeing war-torn Syria. She posted videos on X, talked about handing out water and croissants to refugees and food parcels. When she returned to the UK, she wrote a very moving piece in the New Statesman. She said “we have to work with our European partners and create new, safe, and legal routes for refugees to get to Europe. We cannot abandon them to their fate, left as prey for smugglers whilst risking death on the seas.” She said “maybe we can make ourselves feel better by saying no-one is making them get on the boats. And again, the Home Secretary is not entirely wrong when …
Dear Shabana,
Let's clear some things up around migration and remember we're talking about people's lives.
Entire neighborhoods erased. Hundreds of journalists killed.
They’d rather you scroll past it.
Watch GAZA JOURNALISTS UNDER FIRE on March 3 at 4pm PT / 7pm ET with Ben Cohen, Shepard Fairey, and Valarie Kaur.
Free tickets: https://bit.ly/4uasppB
In Athens, thousands of people marched in front of the US Embassy to protest against the US and Israel.
The US administration doesn't follow US law. Why would they care for international law
BBC still not reporting on the dozens of schoolgirls killed…
This is an illegal, unprovoked and brutal attack that shows once again that the USA and Israel are rogue states.
The UK must end our cosy relationship with the USA and our ongoing support for Israel.
👉 Η δαιμονοποίηση του ξεριζωμένου υποκειμένου πίσω από την πολιτική απάθεια απέναντι στους θανάτους των προσφύγων μας
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This is fantastic! 🔥
A German song against those who romanticise the "good old days of fascism" to make it seem harmless again today. Its title translates as: "The Nazis had a white-asparagus season too!" It's by Paul Sies. (No Eng subtitles yet. Full version is linked in the next post)
#NoAFD 🏳️🌈
The real threat to democracy doesn't come from 'family voting'. It comes from the losing side refusing go accept they've lost
Seabirds are washing up on Europe’s beaches in large numbers after weeks of bad weather.
Leading experts, including Professors Rowan Sutton and Peter Stott MBE of the Met Office, are highlighting the value of a global, transparent risk assessment to guide governments and communities in the journal Nature.
Find out more in our latest press release www.metoffice.gov.uk/about-us/new...
A social media graphic from EveryDoctor on a blue background with a red diagonal banner. At the top, a QR code sits next to the text "Read our new report →". A bold red banner in the center features the figure "£523 million." Below this, a white text box states: "That’s how much private investors extracted from NHS hospital PFI contracts in just five years. Those same trusts need £565m in urgent repairs." The bottom of the graphic includes a blue section with the text: "PFI’s costs are ongoing. So is the influence of its advocates."
🚨 NEW REPORT: Private investors extracted £523m in profits and interest from 36 NHS trusts in just 5 years.
That money could have paid for almost all of the urgent repairs those same hospitals need right now (£565m).
📖 Read the full investigation: bit.ly/PFIProfits
On BBC Thinking Allowed, our trustee Les Back joins Imogen Tyler to discuss the status of overarching theoretical frameworks in contemporary sociology and the "gendered character" of theory itself.
Listen via BBC Sounds: buff.ly/8OuK4E9
#Sociology #SocialTheory #ThinkingAllowed
AstraZeneca boss Pascal Soriot’s pay rises to £17.7m.
With Trump's backing the company demanded price hike of 25% for drugs supplied to the National health Service. The UK govt capitulated.
No govt demands end to fat-cattery and profiteering. People pay more in taxes, get less.
