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Adil Ray @adilray.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

Nadim Zahawi arrived in the UK from Iraq as a child refugee. His family claimed asylum once they were here. Today he has joined Reform who will stop all in country asylum applications. Under his new party, his own family fleeing persecution would be immediately deported.

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Pippa Crerar @pippacrerar.bsky.social · 12/01/2026

❤️‍🔥Tory sources confirm that Nadhim Zahawi made approaches to senior members of Kemi Badenoch's team about getting a peerage just weeks before defecting to Reform UK - but was turned down.

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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 05/11/2025

It's brilliant and exciting to see Zohran Mamdani elected. More leaders like him please, and fewer like Cuomo, Schumer and the rest of the oligarch-pleasing, hope-destroying, election-losing, right-centrist political class.

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Seb Schmoller @schmoller.net · 14/09/2025

Exactly this:

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Zoe Gardner @zoejardiniere.bsky.social · 05/09/2025

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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 04/09/2025

It's a remarkable coincidence how many people on the same road seem to have had overnight access to box fresh flags, 10 foot ladders and the necessary equipment to attach them to lamp posts all at the same time, isn't it?

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

Reporting live from the protest outside Parliament💥 Disabled lives should never be up for debate - we are not a financial loophole to be closed and we refuse to be silenced! #WelfareNotWarfare

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Disabled rights = Human rights
They say cut backs we say fight back
personal independence payments are vital for our survival
All Disabled lives matter
Stop the cuts #TakingthePIP (ruils)
A strong society lifts everyone!

Image of a large group of protestors sitting in Parliament square

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

🚨DPOs Criticise Institutionalised Ignorance From Ableist State in Pandemic and Say Nothing Has Changed 'In light of our learnings from the pandemic, I can't see this as anything but a complete disregard for the continued survival of Disabled people'👇 www.disabilityrightsuk.org/news/disable...

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Disabled People’s Organisations Criticise “Institutionalised

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 01/07/2025

The Government's welfare bill concessions will create a two-tiered system. In real terms: Two Disabled young people could be born just one month apart - and one would be assessed under the new 4-point rule, which makes it much harder to qualify for PIP daily living component.

Young Disabled people on Disability Living Allowance (DLA) move over to PIP once they are 16.
A Disabled person who turns 16 in October 2026 will apply for PIP under the current rules.
Another Disabled person, who turns 16 just one month later in November 2026, will be assessed under the new 4-point rule.

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The WEA @weaadulted.bsky.social · 02/05/2025

'Reducing funding for adult learners is “harming social outcomes, health and wellbeing, economic growth and individual opportunity”' The need for an increase, not decrease, in funding adult education is made startling clear by @learnworkuk.bsky.social report. Read @feweek.bsky.social article below👇

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 12/12/2024

Good morning. Please do support your local library. Libraries are essential, magical places of discovery. @manclibraries.bsky.social @cmbclibraries.bsky.social @librariesconnected.bsky.social

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Ellen Bryn @sepdet.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

#ArtAdventCalendar Day— I started art lessons to improve my digital art, never expecting to fall in love with the brush. My first #oilpainting, March 2017, when I was almost 50. By Nov I was up to the "napkin drill." Then a year of still lifes, learning different materials/tools like palette knife.

Canvas on an easel showing a greyscale painting of two apples, one light, one dark. In background a green and red apple, the subject of the painting, sit on a low paticle board table about two feet wide draped in a brown cloth. A light on a stand stands to one side and somewhat closer to camera, giving objects three-quarter shadows.

Greyscale painting of a starched napkin that looks like it has been dropped onto a table and was frozen there before it settled down, so it has quite a high peak in the middle with various creases and folds falling away from that point. The folds are painted hyper-realistically with subtle gradations of light and dark.

Painting of a still life with an ugly green martini glass, apparently plastic in front and offset from a large ,highly-polished silver teacup which just contains a red apple. The apple, the stem and bottom of the martini glass, and the teacup's own handle are all reflected on its curved surfaces.

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Eddie Playfair @eddieplayfair.bsky.social · 26/09/2024

Adult, Further and Higher education can change lives, build democracy and transform communities. I was delighted to contribute to 'Harnessing the power of post-compulsory education' co-written with Howard Stevenson & John Holford and published this week by @ucu.org.uk www.ucu.org.uk/article/1373...

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A new government is a moment of possibility. It provides an opportunity to turn the tide on years of austerity and the so-called 'reforms' of public services that have served only to cut costs and mak...

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Tipping My Fedora @tippingmyfedora.bsky.social · 27/11/2024

How important was the music to the classic era of Film Noir? For a look at the contribution of Herrmann, Waxman, Steiner, Raksin, Adolph Deutsch and John Lewis of the Modern Jazz Quartet, join me and John Leman Riley / @lemanriley.bsky.social at Tipping My Fedora. podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/8...

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8. Music for Film Noir (1941-1959), with John Leman Riley

Podcast Episode · Tipping My Fedora · 27/11/2024 · 1h 5m

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Bluemoose Books @ofmooseandmen.bsky.social · 15/11/2024

Please, if you are able, support Independent bookshops. They are the literary & social hubs of our high streets and communities. Without their continued support, we simply wouldn't be around to publish . Thank you.

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Clare 🐡🚀💣 @clarewhite.bsky.social · 20/11/2024

Today was fun. My current project with Centre Space Arts launched as part of the opening of the brilliant and HUGE new Furniture Mine @emmausnorthstaffs.bsky.social. Really good event with Terry Waite, Stoke's Lord Mayor and Stoke Community Choir. Well done all involved.

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Iain Jones @iainj.bsky.social · 29/11/2024

Council funding to be redirected from England’s rich areas to most deprived👍

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