Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialJonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · 08/09/2026The Chief Rabbi speaks for Netanyahu, Ben-Gvir and their apologists in this country. Ed Miliband speaks for me and many other British Jews. 27809209
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 08/09/2026He definitely doesn’t speak for me 020
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suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 17/08/2026The new Prime Minister is writing a "10-year plan" for the UK. The arts & culture MUST be part of it. I've signed @campaignforthearts.org's petition urging @andyburnham.bsky.social to revitalise the arts – to revitalise the whole nation 🌱 Join me: www.campaignforthearts.org/petitions/10-year-plan/campaignforthearts.orgPrime Minister – put the arts in your 10-year plan for the UK | Campaign for the ArtsSign our petition urging the UK Government to build a country where the arts are available from childhood, accessible to all and thriving everywhere. 020
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 08/08/2026Just finished Madeleine Thien’s “The Book of Records”. Absolutely brilliant work. A fantastic novelist who is really worth your time (though I think this one, in which she writes genre for the first time time, will be more divisive among her fans!) 3211
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialThe Future Governance Forum (FGF) @futuregovforum.bsky.social · 04/08/2026How could Andy Burnham do immigration differently? FGF’s @bethgardiner-smith.bsky.social sets out how Burnham can improve things in a @politicshome.bsky.social article, read Beth’s ideas for transforming the state to renew the nation 🔽 @siennarodgers.bsky.social www.politicshome.com/opinion/arti...politicshome.comHow Andy Burnham could do immigration differentlyAndy Burnham arrived in Downing Street with a promise to do politics differently. 046
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDavid Oliver @mancunianmedic.bsky.social · 29/07/2026I don't think that is an "easy answer" - it it too simplistic there are bigger questions - 1 e..g social care is currently based on eligibility criteria with high thresholds and so heavily rationed and limited to people with high levels of need. Very different from universal NHS 4155
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026Yes brilliant. And seems that no government will find a way out of the mess if journalists suffocate policy options at birth with headlines in scare quotes. The options have to be given political breathing room. It’s immature & irresponsible. Today it was The Times but they all bloody do it 000
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 28/07/2026I have no expertise in social care funding but I have joined battle with the system on behalf of someone I love & I despair at a press corps determined to suffocate the debate by making option generation & appraisal politically impossible. Yes you Times journalists with your ‘death tax’ headlines 001
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialVictoria Derbyshire @vicderbyshire.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I wrote this 👇 open.substack.com/pub/vicderby... 461136233
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I invite you to try and get this entitlement. Councils are so strapped they avoid paying for residential care. My mum (advancing dementia) plainly wasn’t safe living alone. Offered us an extra visit by the carers she was already hounding out of the flat. The system is designed to wait for disaster 020
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026Kafkaesque does not begin to describe it. People who have not done battle can have no idea. I have worked in and around the NHS for much of my career. I had no idea. I do hope you found some help for your mum. Solidarity is all I can say. 1150
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I would add - also had ‘mum’ skin in this game - in order to be eligible for any of these ‘schemes’ someone has to have the time/emotional resilience to make sense of the rules/fill in forms/chase decisions for years to get ‘help’ of unreliable quality that is often tangentially connected to need 1311
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 27/07/2026I have a modest proposal for a new tax. It involves a deck of cards and a monkey throwing darts. Here are the rules: 41885384
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 24/07/2026If there is a ‘debate’ can we avoid the abstraction. Stop presenting it as a Gordian knot of incomprehensible & unsustainable costs. Instead storytelling about what this actually looks like for families. A complete lottery of astronomical cost for unreliable quality and it could be coming to you. 010
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 16/07/2026And all the women in public life where there is apparently nothing to be done about the daily torrent of death and rape threats that have now become so normalised that it’s not even news? 020
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 07/07/2026Thank you for this. It is compelling 010
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialChris Kendall @ottocr.at · 07/07/2026If you read one thing today, this week, this year, read this. ht @samueljohnson.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy thegrimhistorian.substack.com/p/has-americ...thegrimhistorian.substack.comHas America Crossed the Asshole Threshold?Civilizations can carry a surprising number of parasites and live. But there’s a line — Rome crossed it, the Gilded Age toed it, and for the first time in history, we can measure it. 106950
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 06/07/2026It’s perfect. Extra points for calling a maltipoo Lucifer!!! 000
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSarah Owen MP @sarahowen.org.uk · 01/07/2026Ben Cullen, a leading figure of the "Raise the Colours" campaign, will stand trial for three separate charges regarding a total of 78 indecent images of children. I have only seen this covered in local newspapers, so far. Grim as it is, it needs wider coverage www.oxfordmail.co.uk/news/2624087... 861309894
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialCaitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Am racking my brain to think of ways we can all keep the pressure and heat on this story. Meta & Mark Zuckerberg - one of the richest men in the world - are putting unfathomable legal and financial pressure on whistleblower Sarah Wynn-Williams. Pretty sure most people are on her side - not their's 19354138
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialLuke Piper @lukepiper.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I've met many people who can't afford to get ILR now nevermind on the other side of these proposals. I don't think many know - especially the all knowing 'comments' section of the Times - that it costs close to £3500 per person to get ILR. 55718
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAdam Schwarz @adamjschwarz.bsky.social · 27/06/2026I thoroughly recommend supporting Our Second Home — an outstanding organisation doing pioneering work to support young refugees in the UK. More donations = more camp places for vulnerable young people. Every £ donated this week will be DOUBLED by PostcodeSociety. donate.biggive.org/campaign/a05...donate.biggive.orgOur Second Home - the UK's refugee youth movement – Big GiveOSH supports young people with refugee backgrounds to build communities, become leaders, and flourish into adulthood in the place they … 13418
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialChristabel Cooper @christabelcoops.bsky.social · 26/06/2026Extraordinary credit to Sadiq Khan for pushing through this deeply controversial policy. This is what can happen when politicians are prepared to stick to their principles. 20983268
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialAlan Rusbridger @arusbridger.bsky.social · 20/06/2026When is a riot not a riot? When is the grandson of Jewish emigres who fled Hitler someone to be “extremely wary” of? When @GBNEWS is involved. app.prospectmagazine.co.uk/story/73892/...app.prospectmagazine.co.ukThe GB News obsession with immigration even extends to antisemitic tropes, and no one is stopping itOne presenter invited her followers to be wary of the grandchild of Jewish émigrés 912347
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Of course one should think about addressing the root causes of broader unrest in the UK but right now the government needs a very different plan to deal with the pogroms and the race-war crew. You don't stop that lot by regenerating the high street 41254
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialDorian Lynskey @dorianlynskey.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If I were Andy Burnham, watching Starmer's hopelessly impotent response to the national emergency caused by fascist agitators at home and abroad, I would see both an opportunity and a necessity to do things very differently 1939393
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026This is no more about the details of immigration policy than the progroms my great great grandparents fled were about Jews committing crimes. It's straightforward racist violence and it needs the strongest possible response. 241851398
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialSam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · 10/06/2026Everyone on X and elsewhere who called for a violent response should be charged with incitement. Everyone involved in the pogrom should be locked up with exemplary sentences. Govt should make it clear that will be the response in future anywhere else. Enough. 10556041589
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialJames Murray @james-bg.bsky.social · 02/06/2026Enjoyed writing this for @iandunt.bsky.social excellent substack. Labour does have a genuinely inspiring vision and impressive track record. It's called net zero and if the government talked about it more it might start to improve its fortunes. iandunt.substack.com/p/guest-post...iandunt.substack.comGuest Post: Labour's Net Zero triumphIn the face of frenzied right-wing attacks, this government has successfully executed one of the most ambitious climate change projects in the world. It's time to give credit where it's due. 1122084
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 18/05/2026Often struck by how voters seem knowingly to accommodate plainly incoherent, scarcely credible promises of what politicians will ‘do’ from those who (for good or ill) present a believable way of ‘being’ as a leader. Is the problem less about seeming polished and more about seeming shape shifting? 000
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Completely agree. Utterly disgraceful. BoD certainly doesn’t represent me either. 010
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 10/05/2026Antidote to general misery. Thousands of people of all ages are currently walking through my local woods in support of North London Hospice. A man (in his later years) resplendent in full superman costume shepherding the walkers & almost tearful with pride. £90K raised. Let’s just be this country. 010
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 29/04/2026Make childhood immunisation mandatory 000
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialNa'amod @naamoduk.bsky.social · 12/04/2026Over 1,000 Jews in the UK have called on our institutions to name Israeli apartheid for what it is and take a stand against its injustices. Join them and add your name to the open letter. forms.gle/JDHQorh6Ypg5... 27754
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialThe Guardian @theguardian.com · 02/04/2026Israel’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli Novaktheguardian.comIsrael’s death penalty law marks a new phase in its dehumanisation of Palestinians | Yuli NovakA government that openly embraces violence against Palestinians has now enshrined into law a policy of lethal force, says B’Tselem’s executive director, Yuli Novak 1315975
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Mixed in amongst the usual groups I noticed lots of small community groups - local swimming clubs and choirs and the like - who had seemingly come to say ‘no to racism and hate and division’ In many ways the most hopeful part of the march. 040
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 28/03/2026Despite what BoD would have everyone believe, it does not in fact represent the full spectrum of Jewish opinion. It certainly does not, for example, speak for me. Nor I imagine for many in the reasonably sizeable Jewish bloc that I joined on today’s march. 111
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 27/02/2026I entirely agree. Parliament would hugely benefit from more representatives who bring her life experience and perspective. 000
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 24/02/2026This is a really helpful and even-handed diagnosis of how we got here and distillation of the proposals and their risks. I get that the devil is in the detail but if you were advising gov- in broad principle does this seem like the right approach or would you tackle it profoundly differently? 031
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 23/02/2026I realise that you aren’t someone I actually know but I did so feel your loss and am now ludicrously delighted to see that you have a beautiful new puppy.so.amso.am - This website is for sale! - so Resources and Information.This website is for sale! so.am is your first and best source for information about so. Here you will also find topics relating to issues of general interest. We hope you find what you are looking for... 040
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialJanine Gibson @janinegibson.ft.com · 21/02/2026This felt urgent and it is as powerful and galvanising as maddening and incredible. How did we get here? Why has big tech turned against women by author and campaigner Laura Bates as.ft.com/r/9a009af2-d...as.ft.comHow tech turned against women[FREE TO READ] As AI-generated sexualised images proliferate and app-facilitated abuse spreads, we are sleepwalking into a new age of gender inequality. It is time to regulate properly 612069
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 13/02/2026What a remarkable woman! A study in integrity and moral clarity and … I want to say courage but it feels like perhaps words like ‘brave/courageous’ just piles pressure onto survivors of abuse. Anyway she is exactly right. 020
suerubenstein.bsky.social @suerubenstein.bsky.social · 06/02/2026No idea how this might find traction compared to the mixed medieval/Darwinian current approach but there is a ‘crazy’ world in which parties actively manage their talent - tackling the cookie cutter route into politics, seeking & nurturing talent from unexpected sources, developing capability etc 010
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialOtto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 02/02/2026Why isn't this a major news story? 11520961092
Reposted by @suerubenstein.bsky.socialColin Yeo @colinyeo.bsky.social · 02/02/2026If civil servants and ministers spent as much time using the powers they already have rather than dreaming up new ones then they wouldn't be in the mess they are in today. Discuss. 1161