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Marion Davis

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Social policy & research in Scotland. Personal account and views.

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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 3h
Barbaric..
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 02/09/2026
Just copy & share everywhere please. Absolutely thumping.
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Mariana Mazzucato @mazzucatom.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
We can't do 'good' in the economy with an economic theory that only tells us how to fix markets if and when they fail. The common good is an objective, not a correction, where the how matters as much as the what. Telos & Polis! Spoke w Surplus Magazine, about German edition The Common Good Economy.
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Mazzucato: »Regierungen setzen meine Ideen falsch um«
In ihrem neuen Buch beschreibt Mariana Mazzucato, wie sich Märkte auf Gemeinwohl ausrichten lassen. Im Interview mit Lukas Scholle erklärt sie ihre Vision.
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ABC News Australia @news.abc.net.au · 16h
Unions want big tech to pay levy to build Australian-owned AI
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Unions want big tech to pay levy to build Australian-owned AI
Union figures and leading academics want big tech companies building Australian data centres to help fund the local AI industry through a levy.
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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 19h
Don't agree. Nicola Sturgeon introduced many progressive policies especially the Scottish Child Payment, baby box,more progressive income tax and increasing the free childcare offer.. Also Social Security Scotland .... Child Poverty 21% in Scotland 30% in England. Why so little recognition ?
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 18h
Hooray it’s the Nerve’s first birthday today! And we’re also celebrating being financially sustainable 🥳 Thanks to @pressgazette.co.uk for this fab piece on our first year + future plans. And huge thanks to our members, supporters + team for getting us here 🙏💪❤️ pressgazette.co.uk/news/the-ner...
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The Nerve reaches 5,000 paying subscribers in first year
Newsletter-led newsbrand from ex-Observer journalists now said to be financially sustainable.
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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 18h
HeeHee 😁
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weegingerdug @weegingerdug.bsky.social · 20h
Burnham's crude emotional manipulation in linking the death of his father to John Swinney's claim he will be the last UK PM inadvertently revealed the poverty of Westminster's arguments against Scottish independence. weegingerdug.wordpress.com/2026/09/30/b...
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Burnham’s crude emotional manipulation reveals the poverty of Westminster’s case
The only living politician mentioned by Andy Burnham during his jam tomorrow speech to the Labour party conference was John Swinney, and that was only in order to take a nasty, underhanded and emot…
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Dr Hell-Mart @hockeyeeyore.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
"'Mike Johnson is a moron': Kara Swisher reacts to Speaker calling data center opposition a 'Chinese psyop'" l.smartnews.com/p-8AAdeNKE/l...
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“Mike Johnson is a moron”: Kara Swisher reacts to Speaker calling data center opposition a “Chinese psyop” (Prime Timer)
US Speaker of the House Mike Johnson has sla...
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Anti-Reform @antireform.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Nigel Farage has deleted this post But not before it's been shared widely showing him to be either a serial liar or delusional and either way, unfit for public office
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Margot Finn @eicathomefinn.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
'Mariana Mazzucato, Anna Pick, and Anna Hope Emerson have produced a new report for UCL’s Institute for Innovation and Public Purpose which plots a path toward a more innovative economy that leverages the coordinating capacity of the state and the dynamism of the market.'
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Mission-oriented industrial strategy in the Burnham era
A new UCL report thinks about how the UK’s public finance bodies can coordinate and scale
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Robert Campbell 🇬🇧🇪🇺🇺🇦🇬🇪 @madman2.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
The common good. No handouts to companies without public equity of some sort. Read @mazzucatom.bsky.social new book it’s fab.
Book cover: TUR
THE COMMON GOOD
ECONOMY
A New Compass
MARIANA MAZZUCATO
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 30/09/2026
Having witnessed, and reported on, the parlous state of the system that looks after the vulnerable, I know how important (and how difficult) reform will be, writes Nerve political columnist @sangitamyska.bsky.social www.thenerve.news/p/sangita-my...
Sangita Myska: Burnham has promised to solve the social care crisis. I’m desperate to believe he’ll succeed. Photo: Prime Minister Andy Burnham delivers his speech at Labour Party Conference, in front of a pink-tinged backdrop with the words ‘Hope Again’ at the side; silhouette of people in the foreground clapping
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Dr Julia Grace Patterson @jujuliagrace.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
It’s important that we don’t end up with a new care system that funnels billions of taxpayer money into private companies… 🚨 jujuliagrace.substack.com
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 30/09/2026
Noelle Thomas, contemporary UK textile artist #WomensArt
Colourful textile artwork with central stylised horse morif , as well as circles a
and triangles on a dark background
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
As a piece of political theatre, there will be some who found it affecting but I would bet there will be as many if not more who found it a bit below the belt, writes Hamish Morrison ✍️
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Anonymous @youranoncentral.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Israel has left Gaza devastated: 134K+ buildings destroyed, 74,000+ Palestinians killed and mass displacement. In the West Bank, Israeli settlement expansion and settler attacks are accelerating as Palestinians are expelled from their homes and land. It is genocide. Survivors ask: "Where do we go?"
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'Systematically erased' by Israel: 74,000 dead, 82 per cent of Gaza in ruins and the West Bank burning
An investigation into death, destruction, hunger, genocide findings, settler violence and annexation across Gaza, the West Bank and East Jerusalem, October 2023 to September 2026.
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@Julianshea.bsky.social @julianshea.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
When Trump and Rubio decided to jump in and pretend they knew stuff, who could have guessed... www.reuters.com/world/uk-pol...
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UK police say no explosive devices found in airbase probe
Britain's counter-terrorism police said on ​Tuesday that no improvised explosive ‌devices had been found as part of an investigation into a suspected plot targeting a British ​airbase used by US force...
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lewys @generalquixote.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Cynically using your dead dad to take a swipe at the SNP is low
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
Israel wiped Gaza from the face of the earth.  Everyone knew exactly what they were doing!  A crime more confessed to as it happened than any other in history. A crime more documented as it happened than any other in history. There are no excuses. None at all
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
94 year old Jewish human rights barrister, Margaret Owen arrested under the Terrorism Act outside andy burnham's Labour Party conference. UK taxpayers are funding these arrests while masked men terrorise the streets in coastal towns. Lift The Ban on Palestine Action.
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Jim Pickard @pickardje.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
as a satire on so-called late stage capitalism how could one beat investors pouring a trillion into a company offering to wipe out humankind
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Reform want to indoctrinate our children. Freedom of (and from) belief is a human right. humanists.uk/2026/09/10/s...
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Reform UK Braverman promises 'consequences' if pupils don't sing hymns
Reform UK has said schools will face ‘consequences’ if they fail to make pupils regularly sing hymns and the national anthem under a Reform government. The party’s education spokesperson, Suella Brave...
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Middle East Monitor @middleeastmonitor.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Gaza authorities report over 5,100 Israeli ceasefire violations, warn of ‘imminent catastrophe’ as winter approaches
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Gaza authorities report over 5,100 Israeli ceasefire violations, warn of ‘imminent catastrophe’ as winter approaches
Israel has committed 5,147 violations of the Gaza ceasefire agreement in effect since Oct. 10, 2025, killing 1,421 Palestinians, the Government Media Office said Tuesday, warning of an imminent hum…
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: 'Catastrophic' new images have exposed the devastating scale of destruction inflicted on Gaza by Israel's genocide
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'Catastrophic' new Google Earth images expose scale of devastation in Gaza
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The National @scotnational.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
EXCLUSIVE: Diesel generators at a planned 'green' Scottish data centre has sparked fumes fears for nearby homes👇
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Diesel generators at 'green' data centre spark fumes fears for nearby homes
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The Tennessee Holler @thetnholler.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Textile embroidered art by Sophie Standing, British born textile artist #womensart
Pictorial textile artwork featuring an elephant facing forwards
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
40th Street between Sixth and Seventh Avenues, from Salmon Tower 11 West 42nd Street, Manhattan, 1935 by US photographer Berenice Abbott #WomensArt
Monochrome photograph featuring a New York cityscape with skyscrapers
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Gillian Martin @gillmartin.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
UK police can hold terrorism suspects for 14 days without charge. Had police any grounds to believe the men arrested outside RAF Fairford had even the slightest terrorism connection, they would not have been released. They'd still be behind bars. #fairford
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
An American government politician has said something about Fairford. We should totally ignore it.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
For all we know at the moment, the 5 men arrested near RAF Fairford might have been on a stag night. But the wild claims by Trump and Rubio suggest that, if they'd been apprehended in the US, they would have been denied due process. I hope our government tells them to butt out of our justice system.
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Resolution Foundation @resolutionfoundation.org · 29/09/2026
Over the past two decades, pensioner incomes have grown by 20 per cent, while those of working-age families have grown by just 7 per cent. Given these trends, surely it is time to include the Triple Lock in debates around stemming the growth in welfare spending? ➡️ buff.ly/FY93tV6
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Trussell @trusselluk.bsky.social · 29/09/2026
Food banks haven’t always been needed in the UK. Yet our community of food banks now provide millions of emergency food parcels a year. This isn’t right. In ‘A Taste for Change’, our Social Change Advisor asks: how do we build a food bank free future?
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Anne Settanni No DMs. Vote blue to restore our republic! @annesettanni.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
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Free All Humans (@peoplemustbefree)
The Irish President declares Israel a Terror State 👏👏 thank you Catherine Connolly👇. Common Irish Americans, your power in sheer numbers in overwhelming in the America, there are more than 33 Million...
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The Bear @bearlypolitics.co.uk · 28/09/2026
Well, well, well - if it isn’t the consequences of our own actions. It would appear that migrants are not, in fact, the fiscal drain we’ve been told they are by years if we go by the £4bn to £6.5bn shortfall that’s been caused by the precipitous drop in numbers under this government. Funny that.
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THE NERVE @thenerve.news · 27/09/2026
“I can’t let this kind of rhetoric dominate the whole conversation. There has to be a way of talking about this issue without denying people’s humanity” @natashawalter.bsky.social meets Rachel Marsh, who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm www.thenerve.news/p/rachel-mar...

‘I see what’s happening to Rachel; it scares me’: the woman who dared to face down Piddington’s anti-migrant storm, pictured being interviewed for Newsnight
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 28/09/2026
It's not just that we had two wasted years under Keir Starmer - years in which, with a vast majority and quite a lot of goodwill - he could have turned this country around. On crucial issues, we had two years of spiralling backwards, towards a very dark place. 🧵 www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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Ed Miliband to acknowledge Labour’s former stance on Palestine fell short
Foreign secretary will tell party’s conference ‘we are not here to accept the status quo but to change it’
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Brooke Harrington @ebharrington.bsky.social · 23/01/2025
Here's everything I've done so far on broligarchy, all in one place, starting with my Inauguration Day interview on @thedailyshow.com with Jon Stewart, through multiple BlueSky threads on the subject, some other interviews & a couple articles in @theatlantic.com. 1/9 www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvCm...
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Brooke Harrington - Trump’s “Broligarchy” of Tech Billionaires | The Daily Show
YouTube video by The Daily Show
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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Disgraceful this is happening under a labour government. 😔
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Mairi Damer @marzid.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
In other news, I just wrote a piece about the lack of robust resistance to the far right. If you’re looking for neutrality, jog on ✊ www.wordupscot.co.uk/2026/09/cour...
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Bill Wong @ten24get.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
That goes for #Trump too #Scotland
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Red Kayak @redkayak.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
A very welcome bluesky hole appears in the storm clouds after hours of heavy rain, beautifully reflected on a very wet Gott Bay beach. #Tiree #Scotland #scape #Bluesky
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visittoscotland.bsky.social @visittoscotland.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
This afternoon I am providing an updated web page covering the important and #historic town of #Paisley in SW #Scotland which is well known for the 'Paisley Pattern':https://www.nigelsphotoblog.co.uk/2019/04/paisley.html
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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Chris Bryant MP being more patronising than usual which is quite a feat.
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Ian Dunt @iandunt.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
I could quote pretty much this entire article by @mjrobbins.com on the bizarre psychology of the AI apocalypse freaks, but you should just read it instead. Such a relief to see someone express my feelings so eloquently. martinrobbins.substack.com/p/the-ai-apo...
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womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
UK textile artist Rachel Wright creates artworks using machine embroidery on calico with various fabrics #WomensArt
Pictorial textile artwork featuring a view looking down on a lighthouse in a swirling sea
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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 26/09/2026
Hooray! Long may they plummet😆
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Marion Davis @mariondavis.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Great idea. Help for low income families while enabling the better off to increase their contribution to a wellbeing society.🔻🔻🔻
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UCU Edinburgh @ucuedinburgh.bsky.social · 25/09/2026
Amazing turn out from students and staff at the University of Edinburgh, in protest at senior management's greed and manufactured cuts. This is what solidarity looks like - as our campaign of industrial action begins this coming week in protest at the cuts. www.ucuedinburgh.org.uk/blog/student...
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900+ at inaugural Student & Staff Assembly! — UCU Edinburgh
More than 900 students and staff gathered for the inaugural Student-Staff Assembly on Thursday 24 September.
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