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Emily Ashmore

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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 29/08/2026
So excited this weekend, despite the rain, to be attending Europe's oldest continuous, formally organised Caribbean-format street carnival parade in Leeds. A chance to celebrate the joy a multi-cultural community can offer, to and stuff my face! leedscarnival.co.uk
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The Original And Still The Best - Leeds West Indian Carnival
With something for everyone, from the BIG parade that attracts thousands to Leeds every year to the child friendly Prince & Princess Show, Leeds West Indian Carnival is one of the North of England’s b...
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Joshface @joshface.bsky.social · 20/08/2026
Does anyone know of anyone that would benefit from stitch embroidery, lacemaking text books? My dad is trying to re-home mums collection, some of which are rare and expensive very niche techniques like medieval plumping (dont ask me). If anyone's interested please DM me
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Nettlecake @nettlecake.bsky.social · 03/08/2026
Brilliant letter from Stuart Thompson to Jeremy Clarkson about his comments that benefit claimants should write weekly thank you letters to tax payers detailing how they spend their benefits each week.
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hoskas @hoskas.bsky.social · 30/05/2026
Friends, I turn to you in desperation. My son is getting married next Saturday June 6th in Newbury and their photographer has just cancelled. They're not keen on the replacement's style, ideally they're looking for 'rawness and magazine cover' style pics. PLZ IS THERE ANYONE OUT THERE WHO CAN HELP?
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Katy Rainger @katyboos.bsky.social · 28/05/2026
I have an additional ticket available for the Union Chapel on Monday 1 June for "The Life and Legacy of George Michael". Please contact me if you are interested. Ticket cost £32 but happy to offer it at a considerable reduction! unionchapel.org.uk/.../sathnam-.... (NB: it's a talk, not a concert!)
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The Loop @theloopuk.bsky.social · 17/04/2026
Tomorrow we are drug checking in #Hackney How does it work? 1. Surrender a substance 2. Tell us what you think it is & about your drug use 3. We do lab tests inc. a test for synthetic opioids 4. After ~1 hour, we have results & can give honest advice wearetheloop.org/drug-checking
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 16/04/2026
What if we go bankrupt before we do the work. What if you can stop that with £20. I cannot accept failure on this after fighting for TWO YEARS to get this land bought. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...
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Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath
Bath's largest rewilding project has begun: Warleigh Nature Reserve. Right on the River Avon, and already full of beavers.
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Wetland Project @wetlandproject.bsky.social · 09/04/2026
Details at mailchi.mp/4396a6512d1e...
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 27/02/2026
I wonder if anyone in Labour has been brave enough to raise proportional representation yet?
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Phil Sturgeon 🌳🚵⚓️ @philsturgeon.com · 21/02/2026
Don’t need any sympathy, but I do need a few quid in this crowdfunder so it’s all worth it. I finally get to work on the largest rewilding project in Bath, a place I’ve always called home, on a River that really needs a hand. I just want this to work. www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/warleigh-n...
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Warleigh Nature Reserve, Bath
Bath's largest rewilding project has begun: Warleigh Nature Reserve. Right on the River Avon, and already full of beavers.
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James Goodwin @jamesgoodwin.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Detailed schematic of Nazi concentration camp
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Deth Veggie @dethveggie.bsky.social · 20/02/2026
Strongly reminiscent of this infamous diagram of a slaver ship. We are repeating our evils.
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Max Hardy @maxjlhardy.bsky.social · 18/02/2026
On the hunt for barristers/pupils for Kalisher Trust on 25 February to come to Wrenn School Wellingborough 0930-1300 for a mock trial. Expenses paid. No prep. Please DM if available and kindly circulate this message.
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John Crace @mrjohncrace.bsky.social · 25/01/2026
Please repost if you are feeling kind!
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Lewis Goodall @lewisgoodall.com · 15/01/2026
Flying to Minneapolis tomorrow to cover the ICE raids for News Agents, what is unfolding and the politics which flows from it. If you’re there or know the city and know people/organisations we should be speaking to, please get in touch. DMs open.
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 28/12/2025
This is my firm view too www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Need cheering up after a terrible year? I may have just the story you’re looking for | Martin Kettle
A single act of kindness reminded me that, despite so much evidence to the contrary, the better angels of our nature are not necessarily doomed, says Guardian columnist Martin Kettle
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 10/12/2025
Young woman seated with a headscarf, a short blonde bob, blue eyes and a blue shift dress. Painting by Dod Proctor
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 16/11/2025
🏠 What is the Local Housing Allowance ‘affordability gap’ and why is it growing? 🏠
ocal Housing Allowance (LHA) determines the maximum amount of benefit support that private renting families in Britain can receive.

In 2012, LHA levels were linked to the 30th percentile of local rents and revised annually to reflect market changes. But since the systematic link with market rents was broken 13 years ago, the Government has frozen LHA rates eight times, and repegged to the market level just twice (in 2020 and 2024). Since current LHA rates (based on September 2023 rent levels) came into effect in April 2024, rents have been rising fast. This has created a average 14% affordability gap between LHA rates and local rents.

Next year this gap is forecast to pass the previous record of 17% – equivalent to £120 per month for a typical renter of a two-bedroom property. By 2029-30 the gap will reach 25%, amounting to to an average £180/month if no action is taken in the meantime.The ongoing freeze in LHA rates will ratchet up the burden on lower-income private renters in Britain and risks wiping out any income gains from the welcome boosts to both the National Living Wage and the standard allowance in Universal Credit (UC). 

The extra pressure on renters also risks increasing the number of households in temporary accommodation, which has reached a record high in England of 132,000, and cost councils in England £2.8 billion last year.The unprecedented size of the expected affordability gap make freezing LHA until at least 2029-30 a fiscal fiction. The Government will inevitably have to act before that point in response to acute pressure on households’ living standards and local authorities’ finances. 
So, instead of making ad hoc adjustments to LHA rates when these pressures get too great, the fiscal forecast should be set on a realistic basis by accounting for the cost of annual LHA uprating, expected to be £2.5 billion by 2029-30.
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 16/11/2025
They are falling at the first hurdle. Labour are showing Reform how far they can go.
Image from T Snyder’s ‘On Tyranny’ quoting ‘Most of the power of authoritarianism is freely given. In times like these, individuals think ahead about what a more repressive government will want, and then offer themselves without being asked. A citizen who adapts in this way is teaching power what it can do.’
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 24/10/2025
@teamlabouruk.bsky.social might want to give my MP Peter Kyle a heads up on this one before the next election. He’s pissed off a lot of constituents with his position on AI (large creative industry in B&H) and on welfare cuts, with an active Green Party locally he could be in trouble.
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Kieran Hurley @kieranhurley.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
One of the people killed by Soldier F was a man who stepped out to help another of his victims as he lay dying in the street. He waved a white handkerchief as he did so. Soldier F shot him in the head. His name was Barney McGuigan and today his family had to listen to a judge acquit his killer.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 18/10/2025
Housing is most families' largest expense making it crucial for living standards. But what's happening with housing in the UK? Explore our interactive indicator charts to find out what's going on with housing affordability, quality, and more ⤵️ buff.ly/X5xMmnF
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Carole Cadwalladr @carolecadwalla.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
NEW: Police knew a Kremlin spy ring recruited former leader of Reform Wales at least 3 years ago. So why was Nathan Gill not charged till Feb this year? Pls read part 2 of @thenerve.news special investigation into Nathan Gill. And please share! 1/
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
@holy-cross.bsky.social don’t let me down
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Reuters @reuters.com · 10/10/2025
MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling reut.rs/471tkNZ
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MIT refuses to accept White House terms for funding, other schools still mulling
Massachusetts Institute of Technology President Sally Kornbluth on Friday said she "cannot support" a memo that the White House sent to nine elite U.S. universities last week detailing policies they should follow to get preferential consideration for federal funding.
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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Nigel Farage accuses teachers of "poisoning our kids" on race issues. Here's a reminder of what teachers and fellow pupils at Farage's own school remember of his own views on that subject. www.adambienkov.co.uk/p/nigel-fara...
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Paul Cheney @halfmanhalfbook.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
Anybody in the Stevenage area have available an accessible room or studio flat to rent? My daughter is starting a PhD next week and the flat that we hoped she be in by now looks like it is going to fall through. Thanks
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Ryan Estrada @ryanestrada.com · 06/09/2025
Just a reminder to check for your name in this list of books that OpenAI trained from. If your name is there, they probably owe you several thousand dollars. OpenAI cried that if everyone eligible author files, the company will go bankrupt, so I'm alerting every author I have ever spoken to.
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Search LibGen, the Pirated-Books Database That Meta Used to Train AI
Millions of books and scientific papers are captured in the collection’s current iteration.
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 06/08/2025
I know I keep banging on about my designs but it’s not easy being a small business at the moment. Take a look at my wares and please repost. gailmyerscough.co.uk Thanks!
A collage showing retro designs: a vinyl record poster, patterned phone case, cushion, and mug, me, a bookshelf print and T-shirt with an illustration of Forton Services.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 08/07/2025
The typical pensioner and typical child’s household income were once very similar, but have diverged. In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30.
The divergence in child versus pensioner income trends over both halves of the 2020s is also not new. In 2002-03 pensioners and children had very similar typical equivalised household incomes, but between then and 2023-24 the median pensioner income grew by 32 per cent and the child figure by 7 per cent (with the typical working-age income growing by 8 per cent). In cash terms, the equivalised household income gap between pensioners and children has grown from roughly zero in the early 2000s to over £5,000 by 2023-24 and potentially over £7,000 by 2029-30. As we explore below, this is also reflected in poverty figures.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 01/07/2025
NEW: The government has delayed the implementation of the welfare reforms. They were due to come into effect in November 2026. They will now come into effect after the conclusion of a review by Stephen Timms. The contentious four-point rule has reportedly been entirely removed from tonight’s bill.
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Josh Halliday @joshhalliday.bsky.social · 30/06/2025
💊The NHS is battling "medieval" levels of untreated illness in some of Britain's poorest communities – at a cost to the health service of about £50bn a year, or the same as the defence budget. My big read from Barrow, Blackpool, Burnley and Blackburn: www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 19/06/2025
If someone loses higher rate care PIP their family carer loses Carer’s allowance. The Carer will be required to work 30hours a week. The person they care for will require paid for carers, this will cost the state more than the PIP and CA. Make it make sense.
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Gaby Hinsliff @gabyhinsliff.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
(for those asking what's going on on Twitter btw, basically if you remember Alexis & Krystle off of Dynasty fighting in the lilypond, it's that but one of them is leader of the free world)
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 01/06/2025
Without ambitious policy change, child poverty is projected to increase dramatically over the next decade. In fact, should the Government continue with existing policy, our projections suggest child poverty will hit 33 per cent in 2029-30, a level not seen since 1998-99.
Chart showing projections for child poverty until 2035 where this is projected to reach 36%.
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Class Divide @divideclass.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
It takes a city to educate its children — but inequality in Brighton & Hove means too many are falling through the cracks. 📖 Read. ✍️ Sign. 📣 Share. 👉 www.classdivide.co.uk/take-action-... #ClassDivide #ItTakesACity #BrightonDivide #EducationEquity #FutureWeBuild
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Support our open letter on education inequity — Class Divide
Sign our open letter calling for urgent action to address education inequality in Brighton & Hove. Add your name and stand for change.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 28/05/2025
The UK's record on child poverty is pretty terrible. Based on before-housing-cost thresholds, only Greece had worse rates among European countries in 2018, explains @Alex__Clegg
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christhebarker @christhebarker.bsky.social · 25/05/2025
Builders just found some tubes with a bunch of A2 Beatles prints in them. As I didn’t know I had them, haven’t got space to store them and - frankly - need the money, I’m selling them for HALF PRICE! If you’re interested in a signed rooftop or living room print pls message me here. First come etc!
A2 print of “Hide your love away” scene from the movie Help! Yours, signed, for £50 plus postage. Message me here or gmail me at Christhebarker@…
Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks. A2 print of “I’ve got a feeling” moment from the Beatles rooftop concert.  Yours, signed, for £50 plus postage. Message me here or gmail me at Christhebarker@…
Please share with anyone you think might be interested. Thanks. They look nice in frames…They look nice in mocked up living rooms…
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
I wasn’t aware of that famous Nye Bevan quote ‘Ending child poverty won’t get me votes so fuck ‘em’
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 20/05/2025
Short sighted foolish stepping away from much needed therapeutic engagement www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
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There’s no excuse for chopping down a thing of beauty. And I don’t just mean the Sycamore Gap tree
Talking therapies save lives, keep people out of hospital, help them back into work. So why is NHS England cutting them in its ‘financial reset’?
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Dr Steve Taylor @drstevetaylor.bsky.social · 10/05/2025
Here is the @thekingsfund.bsky.social analysis of UK healthcare spending compared to other countries If you spend less than peer nations, you will have poorer health outcomes, fewer doctors, fewer scanners, fewer hospital beds etc
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Thank you Jill for the music. ‘Like a young Marlon Brando, not old fat Marlon Brando from Apocalypse Now’ open.spotify.com/track/26Cm9S...
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Karen by Night
Jill Sobule · Jill Sobule · Song · 1995
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Emily Ashmore @emilyashmore.bsky.social · 28/04/2025
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Gail Myerscough @gailmyerscough.co.uk · 05/03/2025
Hello! It doesn’t cost anything to repost but it helps me spread the word about my small business. My online shop is full of bold & colourful prints, homewares and cards. I’m also available for freelance design work and art licensing. gailmyerscough.co.uk
Colorful art and accessories displayed in a collage.
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Prof Sheena Cruickshank @sheencr.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
Aditya Wahyu Harsono an Indonesian student, husband and father has just been detained by ICE after his visa was cancelled without informing him. A short thread about deportations…🧵
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Indonesian student detained by Ice after US secretly revokes his visa
Aditya Wahyu Harsono, father of infant with special needs, surprised at work despite valid visa through June 2026
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Rob McCallum @robmccallum.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
I urge anyone who is eligible to sign this
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 30/03/2025
How could changes to benefits affect households?
Graphic showing Jo and Chris, a couple. 
Neither are in work
Jo cares for Chris who is living with a disability
They claim UC after April 2016 and receive the LCWRA and carer elements, and Chris receives PIP
 They could lose £10,300.
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Helen Barnard @helenbarnard.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Vital context for yesterday’s Spring Statement ⬇️ 4.7 million disabled families already facing hunger, 1.6 million children. The is the group the Chancellor chose to slash incomes by £6.4 billion. This is the group bearing all the pain of national &international challenges.
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