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Danielle Turney

@danielleturney1.bsky.social
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Emeritus Prof of Social Work at QUB. Still interested in exploring theory to inform & support social work practice. Relational ethics; critical thinking/decision making; family support. Also plants & politics

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darren32359.bsky.social @darren32359.bsky.social · 13h
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 3h
Just when you think there is nothing that could still shock you about Trump and his administration and his court ...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
To use technical terminology, utter bollocks. It is repeatedly shown that rhetoric like this causes more harm to inclusive communities than migration or differences in race, religion etc. The whole "no go zones" is a well worn, and well disproven, far right trope. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Tory shadow minister claims Luton has ‘no-go zones’ where ‘white people won’t go’
Blake Stephenson tells fringe meeting at Tory conference that the town is ‘a very dangerous place’ with ‘ghettoes’
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
So do pretty well all of his other crackdowns/'policy' statements/directives ... Doesn't seem to stop him!
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 06/10/2026
The utter shamelessness of Kemi Badenoch boasting at Conservative party conference about 'defending press freedom' and berating Reform for banning critical journalists from their conference, just days after banning Byline Times journalists from her own
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Phil M 🦻🏼💚 🍉 🏳️‍⚧️ 🇵🇸 @phillm.bsky.social · 05/10/2026
When they talk about reducing red tape, remember this image.
Grenfell Tower, a black smouldering carcass of the building shorty after the fire, in 2017.
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Excellent! Enjoy your brew 😊
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
Playing with fire there, Aliki ...
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 01/10/2026
We're repeatedly told that asylum seekers pose a threat to the good people of our country... Reading about the threatening and violent treatment of elderly and open minded locals in Crowborough I get the impression that the real threat comes from closer to home. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
On Facebook and other platforms, people
who are known to support the asylum
seekers have been threatened with acid
attacks, petrol bombs and rape. The dossier.
which has been seen by the Guardian, also
claims that several local businesses have
been threatened by far-right agitators, along
with a church where some asylum seekers
worship. One man was punched in the throat
after he held up a "Love Thy Neighbour"
sign, while an elderly couple were falsely
accused of supporting sex offenders. In yet
another case, a 92-year-old church volunteer
was reportedly woken at 3am for two nights
in a row by a man standing outside her
home, shining a torch through her window
and shouting abuse
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"modern, beautiful and lethal" ... hmm, which word seems out of place here
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When can we vote on this? :)
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Marina Hyde, today's Guardian: "The thing about attaining the very highest office in the land is that you have to be prime minister of all the things, all the time. It is difficult to see how someone as cynically selective as Farage could somehow become the sort of leader able to speak for a nation"
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Sounds like a kind of reverse Robin Hood ... loved by the bad, feared by the good
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
And if it turns out the suspects were, in fact, born in the UK, where to next? Only second generation? Were they lefties? Vaccinated? The farce is becoming a bit much now.
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Rebecca Solnit @rebeccasolnit.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
So is the White House, the Kennedy Center, and for that matter the Supreme Court, Congress, the executive branch, the rule of law, the military, public health, and.... Let's hope for a midterm landslide and thereafter some memory in the electorate of who broke what.
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Fair point :)
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 23/09/2026
Anything short of total and vocal condemnation of these far right thugs, and none of this bs about "understanding legitimate concerns" from Labour can at this stage only be seen as a tacit acceptance of their actions, which is exactly how the far right sees it and which ultimately emboldens them.
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Emma Monk @monkemma.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
🧵 As front-page headlines go, this has to be one of the most misleading I've seen in a long time It's an out-and-out lie But notice the trick they use to get away with it...👀 *They're* not lying - they're just quoting someone else who is👍🏻 In this case, the leader of the opposition🙄 1/33
Daily Express headline:

"More Freedoms Handed to New Arrivals than British Citizens"

Above an image of Kemi Badenoch

All with a Monk Debunked stamp on top
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Toby Buckle @polphilpod.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
remigration is what today's right call ethnic cleansing
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Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Thank God Reform is standing up for masked, knife-wielding, ex-cons. Society's most marginalised group.
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Will Jennings📉🗳️ @drjennings.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
Isn't it funny how the headline isn't "Anti-migrant protestor jailed for throwing bottle"...
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Paul Bernal @paulbernal.bsky.social · 24/09/2026
No, BBC, he has not been arrested over the video of dinghy slashing. He’s been arrested over the dinghy slashing. Words matter.
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Liam Connolly @connolly-lg.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I want my country back. By that, I mean a country where I would be confident that a thug who livestreamed himself stabbing an RNLI dingy on an active operation would a) Be universally condemned b) Be swiftly arrested, put on trial and if found guilty, face many years in jail. I miss that country.
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Dylan Difford @dylandifford.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
I mean, at this point, it's fairly unambiguously paramilitarism. You've got a non-state actor using violence to further political objectives. It's flagrantly in breach of democratic principles several times over. Inaction would be the most ultimate failure of a democratic government.
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Randall Munroe @xkcd.com · 22/09/2026
Tyrannosaurus xkcd.com/3300/
Comic. [Person with long hair pointing to diagram with Tyrannosaurus Rex standing next to a person.] PERSON: We now believe the primary prey of Tyrannosaurus Rex was these humans who kept standing next to it for scale.
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Simon Cox @simonfrcox.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
Tonight’s fascist attack on an RNLI lifeboat is the result of years of stochastic terrorism directed at asylum-seekers by mainstream politicians and media. Repeated high profile claims that “we must stop these people!”. The fascists are simply following through on that rhetoric.
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Poetic justice
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Anand @calmerfuture.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
“They are weaponizing that narrative [trafficking] because it makes them out to be the good guys, and everything else makes it really clear that they’re not.”
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 21/09/2026
Yes to both of these
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Wrong question. It isn’t so much a question of whether he can or can’t. It’s whether we WANT him to do so given how utterly corrupt and wicked Trump’s régime is. Would we WANT him to have a “strong relationship” with Hitler’s Germany. Isn’t is just WRONG? Fly under the radar maybe. At best
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
People do have "legitimate concerns" about things like housing, rising cost of living, NHS waiting lists etc. That's absolutely fair. Despite political and media rhetoric, absolutely none of those concerns are solved by attacking asylum seekers and other migrants. 1/
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
Public Service Announcement: If you find yourself drowning in your local canal, always make sure that you are not inadvertently being rescued by a (past or present) communist!
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Twlldun @twlldun.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
I think the prime minister should have said this
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The Empty City @davidallengreen.bsky.social · 19/09/2026
Never incredulous, or shocked or surprised, about the misuse of terrorism law, only disappointed.
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flyingrodent @flyingrodent.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
I remember outrage about Just Stop Oil blocking a street, just in case an ambulance had to drive down it. Not because an ambulance was prevented from doing so, you understand. Just the abstract idea that one might have to.
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 18/09/2026
Exactly this.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
There was no independent presenter or proper cross-examination on the show. It was Farage acting as defendant, prosecution and judge all at once, with long stretches of contestable monologue exonerating his donors and attacking Labour bylinetimes.com/2026/09/17/n...
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Nigel Farage Handed Platform by GB News to Defend Reform UK's £72m Donations From Crypto Billionaires
"These donations are completely legal," insisted the Reform UK leader as he used his first appearance as a GB News host for six months to dismiss all questions about where his party is getting its rec...
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
What's yellow and dangerous? Shark-infested custard
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Thoughtful thread here ...
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Praxis, for migrants and refugees @praxisprojects.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
The hostility toward the RNLI should be a wake-up call. Organisations supporting migrants and refugees have been warning for years that abuse toward those who help others is escalating. @minnierahman.bsky.social explains how civil society must stand together: www.independent.co.uk/voices/rnli-...
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If we don’t stand up to the far-right for our RNLI heroes, what will it take?
Complacency and inaction from successive governments mean the wave of far-right abuse has now reached our heroic lifeboat volunteers, writes charity CEO Minnie Rahman – and it shows what charities kno...
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
While rightwing media nods approvingly at the prejudiced outcry in Piddington, a RNLI station has to close because of white British thuggery and threats. This is where the constantly toxic obsession with immigration leads. To racist, flag-wielding vigilantism that ruins this country for everyone.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I'm not surprised but I'm truly disgusted that this narrative of "dangerous fighting age men posing a threat to women and children" is genuinely doing the rounds on the media with almost no push back at all. This is 1930s level stuff.
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
This clip should be played on repeat, loudly!
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Danielle Turney @danielleturney1.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
Always and everywhere true! If it walks like a duck (or indeed a whole pond's worth of ducks) ...
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Steve Peers @stevepeers.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Reform Party might go to the European Court of Human Rights - the court it wants to leave To challenge retrospective legislation ("not the British way") - but retrospective legislation (loss of indefinite leave to remain) is the core of its immigration policy
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Jonathan Kingham @jonkingh.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Just heard Farage on the radio saying that it would be unacceptable if the govt was to apply any new donor rules retrospectively against the crypto bonanza Reform just received. This is the party which wants to retrospectively rescind indefinite leave.
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
No evidence at all of crime in Essex being driven by asylum seekers. This Reform use of taxpayers money is all about driving hate and fear against migrants.
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Josiah Mortimer @josiahmortimer.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
I was asked "What do other countries do about big money in politics?" Canada is a useful case study as their parliamentary system closely mirrors the UK's (for obvious reasons) - except they've totally clamped down on mega-donations.
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