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Robyn M (They/Them)

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Non-binary Masters student. Love learning, esp History, all the Arts(!), Sociology, & Science. Artist, book addict, & fledgeling sewist 🪡 Homeless teens-30s. AuDHD & Disabled. Always curious. Birdsong = joy 😊 🌈 ❤️

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The BMA @bma.org.uk · 29/04/2025
Attendees at the #RDconf last Saturday voted on an emergency motion to show their opposition to the Supreme Court ruling on the definition of a woman. Read the motion below 👇 BMA-wide policy is set at the Annual Representative Meeting (ARM) in June 2025.
Emergency motion on the Supreme Court ruling defining the term 'woman' from RDC conference 2025
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Prof Katherine Schofield 🇬🇧🇦🇺🇪🇺 @katherineschof8.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
My husband has taught human reproduction and development to the Cambridge medics for over three decades. When people start banging on about "only two biological sexes" he starts with "which sex: genetic, hormonal, or gonadal"? Biological sex is not binary. www.scientificamerican.com/article/sex-...
scientificamerican.com
Sex Redefined: The Idea of 2 Sexes Is Overly Simplistic
Biologists now think there is a larger spectrum than just binary female and male
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
The stat at the end of this story is heartbreaking and enraging www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
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Irregular migrant crossings into Europe fall 30% in first quarter of 2025
Human rights groups say drop is partly due to EU policies that turn blind eye to rights abuses in countries such as Libya and Tunisia
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George Takei @georgetakei.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
I see it. I have lived it. 83 years ago, the U.S. government turned upon a group of its own citizens and residents and sent them to internment camps without due process. I was there among them. American fascism is back. It is here. It is now.
A tweet by Sarah Longwell (@SarahLongwell25
) reads: "He’s threatening media companies who are critical of him. He’s talking about sending Americans to foreign prisons. He’s signing executive orders to investigate former staff members who spoke out against him. Don’t you see what’s happening here?"
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Nathan Kalman-Lamb @nkalamb.bsky.social · 14/04/2025
One of hundreds of people abducted by ICE and sold to slavery in El Salvador was a 19 year old with no criminal record in the US or Venezuela and no tattoos of any kind. An ICE kidnapper who grabbed him outside his house said, "He's not the one." The other said, "Take him anyway." So they did.
Wilmer only found out his son had been detained after receiving a phone call on March 15 from his nephew, Luis, who lives with them. That morning was their last time together; they had gone around the corner to do their laundry. Later that day, Wilmer said that his son met with a friend to get help with some errands at the American Red Cross. He learned this from Luis, who looked at the situation from inside the apartment: when his son was on his way back, just steps from his home when ICE agents stopped him. “The officers grabbed him and two other boys right at the entrance to our building. One said, ‘No, he’s not the one,’ like they were looking for someone else. But the other said, ‘Take him anyway.'”

That moment marked the beginning of Wilmer’s search for answers — answers he’s still waiting for.
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T. Ryan Gregory 🇨🇦 @tryangregory.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
www.cidrap.umn.edu/covid-19/stu...
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Studies: 1 in 7 US working-age adults report long COVID, with heaviest burden on the poor
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Nicole Micheroni @nicolemicheroni.bsky.social · 12/04/2025
Some personal news: the Department of Homeland Security has given me, an immigration lawyer born in Newton, Massachusetts, seven days to leave the U.S. Does anyone know if you can get Italian citizenship through great-grandparents?
Email from DHS revoking parole, unnamed recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 1Email from DHS revoking parole, unknown recipient, received by Nicole Micheroni. Part 2
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Cate Young @ninjacate.blacksky.app · 11/04/2025
oh you mean like every other time they've tried this? everywhere else in the world?
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
I know getting into a physical bookshop isn’t always accessible for disabled readers so I’m very happy there’s also the option of getting a signed copy online. Also, please make my shooting hand pain from 200 signings worth it.
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Dr Rachel Clarke @drrachelclarke.com · 10/04/2025
Yes this Labour govt is financially incentivising NHS hospitals (with huge deficits) to cut patient care & game waiting lists. No-one can possibly pretend that giving unlimited financial bonuses to hospitals to remove patients from lists isn't fraught with risk. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
Hospitals in England offered unlimited bonuses for taking patients off waiting lists
Exclusive: Cap on payments for patients removed from lists scrapped amid warnings about waits for cancer care
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David Roberts @volts.wtf · 10/04/2025
A Florida schoolteacher -- an 11 year veteran -- refused to deadname a trans child in her class. She's been fired for it.
washingtonpost.com
Florida teacher loses job for calling student by preferred name
It’s the first known dismissal stemming from the conservative campaign to limit schools' recognition of transgender identity.
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Rory Cellan-Jones @rorycj.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
Join me for a live conversation today at 11am at the @VirtualVillageHall!🏠 I’ll be telling the story of #sophiefromromania - and also talking about #Parkinsons and tech. RSVP below:👇🏼 Facebook: fb.me/e/2Bqub5qOS YouTube: www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0ov...
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Utterly disgusting. There is absolutely no way any Afghan woman should be returned to the Taliban having sought asylum, but particularly someone who has fought for human rights. It is tantamount to a death sentence. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Afghan rights defender told she faces ‘no risk’ from Taliban as Home Office denies asylum
Woman who worked with western governments in her home country before fleeing the Taliban told to return
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Elizabeth Jacobs, PhD @elizabethjacobs.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Two months ago, I hypothesized that RFK Jr. would hire people to manipulate data to attempt to fraudulently “prove” that vaccines cause autism. Then he hired David Geier, an unethical fraud who has had numerous papers retracted. Then Dr. Marks left the FDA and this is what he had to say:
Screenshot from Rawstory that reads: 'Very scary': RFK sought out data that doesn't exist to back anti-vax agenda
By Matthew Chapman
April 4, 2025 6:31PM ET
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
Every tax avoidance scam has an enabler - a lawyer or adviser who devises or promotes it to would-be tax evaders. The numbers of those prosecuted has plummeted and @HMRCgovuk admits it misled parliament by claiming the annual peak was 29 when it was 16 bit.ly/3XKXGkd
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HMRC prosecutes less than five tax evasion enablers in a year
Legal actions against facilitators stand at next to nothing – and new figures differ wildly from those previously given
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Kelly @broadwaybabyto.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
“I’m worried about H5N1 in patients who are being treated in hospitals where there are also many patients with seasonal flu because this creates opportunity for reassortment, which could produce a pandemic-capable H5N1” Can we have mandatory masking in healthcare now? Clean air? Infection control?
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Christopher Webb @cwebbonline.com · 05/04/2025
THIS IS TERRIFYING‼️ Dr. Peter Marks, former head of vaccines at the FDA, just had his last day—forced to resign or be fired because he wouldn’t lie about vaccines. He gives a chilling warning: the U.S. is unprepared for biowarfare—because the response team has been gutted.
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Susie Dent @susiedentwords.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Word of the day is ‘quiddler’ (18th century): one who focuses on unimportant issues while avoiding the important ones, or who fiddles/plays golf while Rome burns.
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Reuters @reuters.com · 02/04/2025
The judge who barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in France's 2027 presidential election is under police protection after facing death threats and having her home address shared online, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said reut.rs/4cf6cht
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Judge who barred France's Le Pen gets police protection following threats
The judge who barred far-right leader Marine Le Pen from running in France's 2027 presidential election is under police protection after facing death threats and having her home address shared online, a source with direct knowledge of the matter said.
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Naomi Klein @naomiaklein.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This is, in large part, pandemic revenge. As far as these oligarchs are concerned, all science does is tell them stuff they cannot do. They can't keep spewing carbon. They can't keep businesses open as usual when millions are dying. They have concluded that research is the enemy of profit.
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Denise Wheeler @denisedwheeler.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
Corey Booker still going strong after 20+ hours. Constituents told him to do more and he listened. History in the making as we witness the unstoppable dedication of an elected official at our most darkest hour. Watch him live on Youtube right now! 🔥💙 @booker.senate.gov
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Live: Speaking on Trump, Musk, and America’s Moral Moment on the Senate Floor | Senator Cory Booker
YouTube video by Senator Cory Booker
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Chris Geidner @chrisgeidner.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
This story is enraging, as many have noted. www.theatlantic.com/politics/arc...
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An ‘Administrative Error’ Sends a Maryland Father to a Salvadoran Prison
The Trump administration says that it mistakenly deported an immigrant with protected status but that courts are powerless to order his return.
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Danielle Beckman @daniellebeckman.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
"We only have data from five years, but researchers worry about the long-term ramifications of the pandemic." THIS. Results from multiple labs, including ours, point to SARSCoV2 increasing the risk of dementia. But we only have 5 years of data, and science needs time. #LongCovid #NeuroCovid
‘Something was wrong with my brain’: How covid leaves its mark on cognition. Five years after the pandemic began, the neurocognitive effects of long covid are numerous and troubling. And some of these cognitive losses may extend to people who quickly recovered.
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Mike Galsworthy @mikegalsworthy.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
“President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term.” Of course. We all knew it. 🤷🏻‍♂️ Everything else he’s done so far in this term has been copy-paste from the Ye Olde Fascist Takeover Manual, so this will probably barely register in the media.
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Trump won’t rule out seeking a third term in the White House, tells NBC News ‘there are methods’ for doing so
President Donald Trump said in a Sunday-morning phone call that he was “not joking” about a third term, adding that “it is far too early to think about it.”
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Rajesh Thind @rajeshthind.bsky.social · 30/03/2025
www.ft.com/content/2197... ‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders
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‘I still have nightmares’: the tourists shackled and jailed for weeks at US borders
Visitors suffer hostile treatment since Donald Trump’s return to the White House
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Dr Duncan Robertson @duncanrobertson.bsky.social · 28/02/2025
"People will die... but we will never know." That's quite a chilling sentence when you think about it.
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Michael Hobbes @michaelhobbes.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
We have had nearly two decades of panic about Free Speech on Campus and not a single case, not even the ones they made up, were as bad as what's happening now
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
You think the arbitrary arrest of political dissenters cannot happen in the UK? It already does. www.quaker.org.uk/news-and-eve...
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Quakers condemn police raid on Westminster Meeting House
Police broke into a Quaker Meeting House last night (27 March) and arrested six young people holding a meeting over concerns for the climate and Gaza.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 28/03/2025
“I hope the government has the NHS prepared for these proposed cuts. Because stress makes many health conditions worse.” James Waterson charts the destruction of lives caused by austerity in all its guises. @northeastbylines.co.uk
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The UK democide of the disabled
Spring budget unveils 'Austerity 2.0' with fresh cuts to disability benefits—history warns of deadly consequences
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Brian Kahn @blkahn.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
Not to add to the bad news but...
bloomberg.com
Arctic Sea Ice Shrinks to Record Winter Low as Earth Heats Up
The Arctic Ocean likely had the smallest winter ice cover in 47 years of satellite records this season, with just 5.53 million square miles of sea ice covering the region at its peak on March 22.
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Seth Abramson @sethabramson.bsky.social · 27/03/2025
This image will go down in infamy: Kristi Noem using abused El Salvadoran prisoners—some of whom she illegally deported in the dark of night, without due process—as props in a Trump ad in which she sports a $60,000 Rolex These men have already been left in a hole to die—was that not enough for her?
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Robert Hutton @roberthutton.co.uk · 27/03/2025
If only he had spent the entire election campaign saying loudly and clearly that this was his plan, there might have been some clue that he had a plan to do this. bsky.app/profile/mims...
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Brent Toderian @brenttoderian.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
“I hope you’re sitting down. For that six month period (April-Sept), the number of airline tickets booked between Canada and the United States is down anywhere from 71.4% to 75.7%.” onemileatatime.com/news/airline...
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Airline Demand Between Canada & United States Collapses, Down 70%+
Future flight bookings between Canada and the United States are down by over 70% year-over-year in the summer months. WOW.
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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
By me 👇
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Dom Ervolina @dominicervolina.com · 26/03/2025
Her name is Rumesya Ozturk, she is a Turkish national and a PhD student at Tufts Currently her whereabouts are unknown, the reason for her arrest is unknown, and ICE has not responded to a judge's request for further information We are the baddies More here: www.bostonglobe.com/2025/03/26/m...
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Alice Roberts @profaliceroberts.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
I’m finding it very hard to understand the stance of the Royal Society here. Science is part of society, not separate from it, existing in some strange metaphysical bubble. I look across the Atlantic, aghast at the damage being done to science and scientists. www.theguardian.com/technology/2...
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Royal Society decides not to take disciplinary action against Elon Musk
Exclusive: Fellows argue Musk has violated code of conduct but council believes investigation ‘could do more harm than good’
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David Ho @davidho.bsky.social · 26/03/2025
"'Their personal phones are all hackable, and it’s highly likely that foreign intelligence services are sitting on their phones watching them type the shit out,' the former White House official warned."
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'It's so unbelievable': Cyber world stunned over war planners using Signal
Regardless of app security, experts say communicating the military plans of the U.S. government in a non-classified space creates a massive security vulnerability.
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George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 25/03/2025
In defiance of international rules, our used tyres are exported to India, to be pyrolysed at vast cost to workers' health & air quality. The government sits on its hands. At @fightingdirty.bsky.social, we want to mount a crowdfunded challenge. Could you help? 🧵 stop-uk-tyre-exports.raiselysite.com
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Stop UK tyre exports for burning
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Tanya Marlow @tanyamarlow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
Beware the latest Office for National Statistics questionnaire about employment, which has several odd, leading questions that are very narrow and offer no clarification. Looks like trying to prove that people too ill to work aren’t ’motivated’ to look for work or need extra qualifications.
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Tanya Marlow @tanyamarlow.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
It appears that even on their supposedly neutral ONS survey they cannot compute for someone highly qualified, highly motivated, very sick and disabled person on ESA working very few hours of ‘worthwhile’ meaningful work very sporadically for little pay, even though the system is designed for that.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
“I can’t sleep, I’m so scared.” My report in tomorrow’s Guardian on the disability benefit cuts “domino effect”: losing PIP will see unpaid carers lose their benefits too - pulling away two main strands of a family’s income at once. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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‘I can’t sleep, I’m so scared’: disabled people face benefit cuts domino effect
Three people tell how knock-on impact of losing Pip on carer’s allowance and other benefits will affect their families
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onion person @junlper.beer · 23/03/2025
just found out about this. if you are distributing information under this government be very careful
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 24/03/2025
And with Labour's "review" of Access to Work already predicted to focus on cuts, in addition to those already being made and further restrictions on PIP, this only gets worse. Cutting funding and support doesn't help people get into work. Increasing it can. #r4today www.thetimes.com/article/8f1f...
Disabled people forced to turn down jobs over 9-month wait for support

More than 60,000 disabled people are yet to receive assistance to enter or remain in the workforce despite Labour's pledge to get more people into employment

Matilda Davies, Data Journalist

Monday March 24 2025, 12.01am, The Times

More than 60,000 disabled people are facing waits of more than nine months to receive support to enter or remain in the workforce.
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Jenny Cohn @jennycohn.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
“One young man sobbed when a guard pushed him to the floor. He said, ‘I’m not a gang member. I’m gay. I’m a barber.’ I believed him. *** He “began to whimper,” as his head was roughly shaved, “folding his hands in prayer as his hair fell.” He “asked for his mother & cried as he was slapped again.”
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What the Venezuelans Deported to El Salvador Experienced
Exclusive photos of the arrival of Venezuelan detainees deported from the U.S.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 22/03/2025
Don’t let any one tell you that cutting disability benefits is about making “savings.” www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
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Councils and NHS could face millions in extra costs due to disability benefit cuts
Government plans for Pip cuts will drive up costs for local authority social care services and NHS, campaigners warn
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Adam Kinzinger @adamkinzinger.substack.com · 21/03/2025
This is insane
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Ilan Schwartz @germhuntermd.bsky.social · 20/03/2025
How firm is the hold of antivax beliefs? From the parents of the 6 year old unvaccinated child who died of measles: “Don’t do the shots,” the girl’s mother said. Measles, she added, is “not as bad as they’re making it out to be.” She noted that her four other children all recovered…
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“This is austerity dressed up as reform, where the government cuts the money disabled people need to live on in order to balance the books, while claiming it’s all being done to help them.” My col. on Labour’s sweeping disability cuts and mark of shame. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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These cruel benefit cuts will rob security from so many – but Labour will lose something crucial too | Frances Ryan
The worst reforms since George Osborne will teach voters that politicians really are all the same. Is it worth it? asks Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Fionna O’Leary @fascinatorfun.bsky.social · 19/03/2025
“Brexit has created a “mind blowing” nearly two billion extra pieces of paperwork for businesses - enough to wrap around the world 15 times. If they were all laid end to end they would also reach to the moon and half way back again” Tory / Labour hard Brexit. apple.news/AjeIrSVWjShu...
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Brexit created ‘mind blowing’ 2bn extra pieces of paperwork - enough to wrap around world 15 times — The Independent
Liberal Democrats call on Sir Keir Starmer to negotiate a bespoke UK-EU customs union to free businesses from excessive red tape
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 18/03/2025
At the heart of every attack on disability benefits is the myth disabled people “get perks”: a free car, loads of cash, a life off work. It misrepresents the reality of disability, whilst exploiting low wages and high living costs to make the public envy people in daily pain.
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