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sianushka.bsky.social @sianushka.bsky.social · 29/04/2026
From today, no one in England and Wales will be criminalised for ending their own pregnancy
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 24/04/2026
NEW: People with the greatest housing needs are waiting months or even years *in the highest priority bands* of social housing registers In some areas, people in the highest priority band get social housing after average waits of more than two years By me: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
politicshome.com
Families In Greatest Need Of Social Housing Wait Years In Some Areas, Data Reveals
A data investigation by The House has revealed that those with the greatest needs are being forced to wait years for social housing, leaving famili...
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Roland Smith @rolandmcs.bsky.social · 14/04/2026
Every reference to 'welfare' ever should have 'including pensions' or 'excluding pensions' in parentheses next to the word. All interviewers/articles should clarify at first use whether the word includes or excludes. Interviews should be stopped if unclear. Because frankly it's getting tedious.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 15/04/2026
Because of course. www.theguardian.com/environment/...
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$30m an hour: big oil reaping huge war windfall from consumers, analysis finds
Exclusive: Climate action blockers including Saudi Arabia, Russia and major fossil fuel firms set to make extra $234bn by end of 2026
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 17/03/2026
I am part of this beautiful project to honour women. Seeing women sign up to make the stars is very moving.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 16/03/2026
Trump with the audacity to talk about anything 'only appropriate'
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
Very proud to be part of this project.
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
The names of 19 women believed to have been killed by their sons since #IWD25 were read out by @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social y/day. @femicidecensus.bsky.social research showed almost one in 5 women killed by men since #IWD25 were suspected victims of matricide. www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
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Sons were suspects in nearly one in five cases of women killed by men in UK in past year
Figures recorded by Femicide Census in past 12 months indicate highest rate of matricide in 16 years
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
This was an immense day. Talking about so many topics that affect women. The people smashing windows are beyond pathetic.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 10/10/2025
Yes!!
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of the children’s services funding formula halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government grants. By me, for Politics Home: www.politicshome.com/news/article...
politicshome.com
London Councils Face Losing Half Their Share Of Children's Services Funding
Some of London’s poorest areas could see their share of funding for children’s services halved under Labour’s plans to reform local government gran...
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
Me in August: I think we'll see news articles fairly soon about the weird grades students got in their English Language GCSEs. Something's gone wrong. The Observer in October: observer.co.uk/news/nationa...
observer.co.uk
Novice examiners lead to huge rise in queries over grades
English language results improve by up to three grades after challenges from teachers, who warn of ‘erratic’ marking
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Robert Wright @reporterrwright.ft.com · 03/09/2025
There's something obscene about this kind of rhetoric. North Korea has endured periods of mass starvation, has thousands of political prisoners and carries out brutal executions of those who fall foul of the regime. It ignores the horrific reality for North Koreans to compare it to the UK.
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
Read our detailed response to the #BertinReview here and look out for the FOI report by our #WomenFirst project team, which will be shared in full very soon, on our Women First page: filia.org.uk/women-first 🔗 www.filia.org.uk/latest-news/...
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FiLiA’s statement on the Bertin Review and the Government response to it — FiLiA
FiLiA's detailed response to the Bertin Review published last week, in which we drew on the experiences shared by Women with direct experience of the industry, and we continue to push for them to be c...
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 03/09/2025
FiLiA’s #WomenFirst FOI report on Local Authority response to prostitution recommended prostitution should be part of Gov't & LA VAWG strategies. In yesterday's Westminster Hall debate on porn, prostitution & its impact on VAWG, we were glad to hear @jessphillipsmp.bsky.social confirm it would be.
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Rob Ford @robfordmancs.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Will be digging into the weeds of these results some more in coming days, here's one graph to ponder - average shares for Reform and Lib Dems by share of graduates in the wards. The education divide looms ever larger...
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Anthony Zacharzewski @anthonyzach.be · 02/05/2025
David Cameron destroyed the UK’s place in Europe to try to prevent this, less than a decade ago. Amazing.
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SEND Warrior Mum making a difference! ( same as Twitter!) @sendwarriormum.bsky.social · 01/05/2025
A county council has reimbursed a total of £26,475 to parents who used private educational psychologists due to a backlog. Surrey County Council paid out to 27 families of children with SEN who had to go private between the 2023 summer term and May 2024. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
bbc.co.uk
Private educational psychologist assessments refunded by council
Families went private due to a lack of qualified professionals at Surrey County Council.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 25/04/2025
I am on a train. Listening to someone playing I-spy. Truly a game designed to make boredom more boring.
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
'Yet the voices advocating for better daycare and housing for mothers faded away as the anti-abortion movement tightened its alliance with the Republican party.' #abortion #TrumpsAmerica #AbortionIsHealthcare #abortionrights #ReproRights www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-i...
theguardian.com
How idea of charging women with murder infiltrated the anti-abortion movement
‘Abolitionists’ have migrated out of the fringes and moved toward the center of movement alongside Republicans’ penchant for punishment
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AudreySuffolk MBE @audreysuffolk.bsky.social · 24/04/2025
Ive written about the risk of "taking sides" when approaching equality act compliant decision making www.linkedin.com/posts/audrey...
linkedin.com
I keep hearing people talk about “taking sides” in equality issues. But… | Audrey Ludwig
I keep hearing people talk about “taking sides” in equality issues. But here’s the thing: Equality law and practice shouldn’t be about choosing sides. It’s about getting it right. Lawfully, fairly a...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 23/04/2025
One of the most shocking things I have read for a while: t.co/lg46ijHLDF
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Soraya Nadia McDonald @soraya.press · 17/04/2025
"In an earlier post, she wrote: "As for the inevitable death, if I die, I want a loud death, I don't want me in a breaking news story, nor in a number with a group, I want a death that is heard by the world, a trace that lasts forever, and immortal images that neither time nor place can bury."
euronews.com
Photographer Fatima Hassona killed ahead of Cannes documentary debut
The Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassona, killed along with ten family members in an Israeli air strike on her home in northern Gaza, is the star of a documentary due to be screened at the Cannes film festival next month.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 18/04/2025
I feel so impressed that she is not standing for this kind of abuse and at the same time I am furious on her behalf that after everything she has been through she now has to go through this too.
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River @riverlorien.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Likely to lose PIP: 23,000 with cancer, 38,000 with MS & neuropathic diseases, 214,000 with arthritis, 38,000 with cardiovascular disease, 45,000 with respiratory diseases, 11,000 with cerebral palsy & neurological muscular diseases And their unpaid (family) carer will lose Carer's Allowance
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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
NEW: Thousands of people with cancer, cardiovascular diseases and respiratory diseases, and more than 200,000 people with arthritis are among the 1.3 million whose disability benefits are at risk from planned cuts, according to FOI data By me, for @bigissue.com www.bigissue.com/news/social-...
bigissue.com
1.3 million ill people could lose PIP under Labour's disability benefit cuts
Labour's benefit reforms could see thousands of people with cancer and more than 200,000 people with arthritis lose their PIP payments.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
Screaming headlines about avocado toast and lattes followed by screaming headlines about how you should embrace debt. The media embraces so much idiocy on its way to working for clickbaits.
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J Keen @jkeen1213.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Certainly worth some thought.
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
Absolutely brilliant thread. I particularly like the changing blue. Nice work.
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The New York Times @nytimes.com · 11/04/2025
Adolf Hitler's “Mein Kampf” is still on U.S. Naval Academy shelves. “I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings” and “Memorializing the Holocaust” are not. An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office led to a purge of books that are critical of racism — but preserved volumes defending white power.
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Who’s In and Who’s Out at the Naval Academy’s Library?
An order by Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth’s office resulted in a purge of books critical of racism but preserved volumes defending white power.
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NPC @thinknpc.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
💥 We're hiring! We are looking to fill two exciting new roles here at NPC. Including: 👉 Principal Consultant: Systems Change 👉 Principal Consultant – Effective Philanthropy Would like to help individuals and organisations maximise their impact? Learn more: www.thinknpc.org/about-npc/wo...
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David Challen @davidchallen.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
A serving Met police officer has been charged with four counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one of sexual assault. PC Dion Arnold, now suspended, was remanded in custody and will appear at Guildford crown court on 1 May.
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Serving Met police officer charged with rape and other sexual offences
PC Dion Arnold charged with four counts of rape, two counts of assault by penetration and one of sexual assault
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
It’s a month since the administration detained and disappeared a green card holder, a lawful permanent resident. We cannot allow this to be normalized or forgotten.
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CNN @cnn.com · 08/04/2025
Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiment within federal and state governments may derail emerging and cutting-edge vaccines that are now awaiting regulatory approval in the United States – essentially leaving those vaccines in limbo
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Anti-vaccine sentiments may derail vaccines already awaiting FDA approval, experts fear | CNN
Concern is growing among public health experts that anti-vaccine sentiments within federal and state governments may derail emerging and cutting-edge vaccines that are now awaiting regulatory approval...
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CNN @cnn.com · 07/04/2025
The Supreme Court has paused a court-imposed midnight deadline to return a Maryland man mistakenly deported to El Salvador back to the US
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Supreme Court pauses midnight deadline to return man mistakenly deported to El Salvador | CNN Politics
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Dustin Moskovitz @moskov.goodventures.org · 07/04/2025
October ‘24: he’s not serious about the tariffs February ‘25: he’s not serious about the tariffs, it’s too crazy March ‘25: ok now there is a date but it is just negotiating leverage April ‘25: ok he did it but he’ll roll them back right May ‘30: these tariffs can’t last forever, that’d be insane
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 08/04/2025
This thread is making my head ache
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Two stories coming in the newsletter tonight: - North Carolina is proposing a total abortion ban (just two years after passing their 12-week 'compromise') - The new solicitor general believes that some kinds of contraception are 'abortifacients'
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John Scalzi @scalzi.com · 07/04/2025
Everyone raised on the AP Style Guide is having a moment with this one, thank you @ellecordova.bsky.social
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
Every line in this article is horrifying. www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
theguardian.com
‘I didn’t start out wanting to see kids’: are porn algorithms feeding a generation of paedophiles – or creating one?
More than 850 men a month are arrested for online child abuse offences in England and Wales. They come from every walk of life: teachers, police officers, doctors, TV presenters. And the numbers are r...
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 07/04/2025
75%
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
And none of this is a surprise. We knew this is what he does. And he still got voted in.
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 05/04/2025
WHAT THE F**K!
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Sarah Murphy @13sarahmurphy.bsky.social · 04/04/2025
Brexit has never looked quite so ruinously insane as it does right now. And it’s always been idiotic. Alone, outside the EU, needing to improve our relationship with our own continent but also terrified of the wrecking-ball lunatic in the White House. Cornered by our own ‘sovereign’ stupidity.
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I spoke to a South Carolina woman today who is miscarrying - her fetus has no heartbeat - but the state's ban is preventing doctors from taking action. She has to walk around with a dead fetus for another week so she can get a FOURTH ultrasound. This is what bans do.
jessica.substack.com
Her Fetus Has No Heartbeat—They Still Won't Give Her An Abortion
South Carolina's ban is torturing a 31-year-old mom *right now*
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Mehdi Hasan @mehdirhasan.bsky.social · 03/04/2025
“There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’” My myth-busting piece for The Guardian today arguing that it is factually inaccurate & totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ & are automatically ‘criminals’. I bring receipts:
theguardian.com
There is no such thing as an ‘illegal immigrant’ | Mehdi Hasan
It is a factually inaccurate and totally, utterly wrong to say that undocumented people are ‘illegal’ and are ‘criminals’
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FiLiA @filiacharity.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
A third former South #Yorkshire police officer has been arrested as part of an investigation into child sexual exploitation in #Rotherham. The ex-constable, aged in his 50s, was arrested on Monday on suspicion of raping a teenage girl in the town in 2004. 🔗⬇️ www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
theguardian.com
Third ex-police officer arrested in Rotherham child sexual exploitation inquiry
Former officer with South Yorkshire force arrested on suspicion of raping teenage girl in 2004
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
This Texas bill wouldn't just make it a felony to take a teen out-of-state for an abortion—but to "fund" an out-of-state abortion for a teen. In other words, giving your 17 year-old niece gas money could land you in prison. legiscan.com/TX/text/SB23...
legiscan.com
Texas SB2352 | 2025-2026 | 89th Legislature
Bill Text (2025-03-25) Relating to prohibiting transporting or funding the transportation of an unemancipated minor for an abortion; providing a civil penalty; creating a criminal offense. [Referred t...
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Jessica Valenti @jessicavalenti.bsky.social · 01/04/2025
The organization that serves all of Mississippi had their funding frozen because they put out a statement opposing racism in the wake of the murder of George Floyd. Millions of dollars for low-income patients - gone today because they opposed racism
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NeallM @neallm.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
Laughing at the new Monopoly "expansions" being marketed with the catchphrase "shorten the game with Monopoly Expansions" Even they know it's a boring game.
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