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Anna McShane @annacmcshane.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

The Children's Wellbeing and School Bill passed last night, but as @stephenkb.bsky.social notes in his @financialtimes.com imes.com Inside Politics newsletter, it fails to tackle schools' major issue: poor recruitment and retention. In fact, reducing academy freedoms could worsen it.

https://www.ft.com/content/221aef6d-2aa6-4058-a6f4-026fafb10471

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Ian Birrell @ianbirrell.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

This is shameful from a party that pretended to have a plan. We’ve seen at least 17 white papers, green papers & state reviews of social-care funding this century. Now Labour is kicking reform into long grass with another review. We know the issues. We need urgent action www.bbc.com/news/article...

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National Care Service plans in pipeline for 2028, say ministers - BBC News

The government announces first steps to creating a National Care Service - but the final report is several years away.

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Tomos Doran @portraitinflesh.bsky.social · 27/12/2024

Actual apartheid, that is, not the BDS propaganda kind. Then there's ethnic cleansing, which less cautious members of Israel's far right openly long for. These are all ugly outcomes. I have never heard a defence of the settlement enterprise that does a thing to address these fundamental points.

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Toby from Bristol @tobyolds.bsky.social · 25/11/2024

I'm not necessarily agreeing with Aaron that we're all victims of patriarchy and capitalism - but his observation about the left pointing out how capitalism and patriarchy effect men in abstract, but failing to do so with actual individuals is spot on.

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Gareth Watkins @garethwatkins.bsky.social · 24/11/2024

Okay, potentially long thread here in response that I'm titling MEN: WHAT THE PROBLEM WITH THEM IS AND WHY THEY'RE LIKE THAT The central problem that the vast majority of straight (and most gay, bi etc.) men have is that their demand for sex vastly exceeds any possible means of 'supplying' it...

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Andy @mayj.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

The irony about that angst is that (in wealthy countries) the birthrate is positively correlated with gender equality, sharing of chores etc Odd that the people stressing about the birthrate aren't pushing for more gender equality

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Mecha-Herz @mechaherz.bsky.social · 20/09/2024

Great points here, but I do wonder if there might be a significant portion of men who will simply never be appealing to truly emancipated women, no matter how much good-intentioned work they put into themselves.

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