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Former social care Service Director. Chair of gyros.org.uk. Foodbank volunteer. Learning Tai Chi, classical guitar and pickleball.

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Disability Rights UK @disrightsuk.bsky.social · 8h
"Social care for Disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it?" Read the @guardian story here: www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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Social care for disabled adults is in as much crisis as support for elderly people – so why is the government silent about it? | John Harris
Working-age adults such as my son, who is autistic, face an unreliable system, yet ministers talk only of a national care service for older people, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 27/09/2026
Tory ex-ministers face serious questions over migrant centre chaos, inquiry hears
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 22/09/2026
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Black Tesla employees accuse company of fostering racial discrimination in major trial
Lawyers say Black employees at Tesla experienced ‘rampant racism’ that was left unchecked for years at their flagship factory in California
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
Are the Tories making plans for the dead to keep working?
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Staff slept while patient killed at NHS mental health unit
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Shocking findings about the East London Mental Health Trust at Newham Hospital and the staff who failed patients there and lied leading to neglect and death of a patient.
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
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Warning: our democracy won’t survive the death of reading. Read on if you still can | John Harris
While fascists protest in UK ports and purvey nonsense and poison online, ever fewer people have the perspective or analytical tools to challenge them, says Guardian columnist John Harris
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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Applicants for UK citizenship charged more than five times the admin cost
Fee of £1,709 compares with an estimated administrative cost of just £324, according to Home Office data
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 10/09/2026
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‘Fundamentally unfair’: Burnham must overhaul migration reforms, says TUC general secretary
Paul Nowak says changes to immigration rules risk overstretching social care and fuelling far-right sentiment
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Princess’s story: the case that highlights scourge of illegal care provision
Child was sent to live in 11 different Airbnbs or hotels and two ‘barren and inhospitable’ houses, as companies profited
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
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Councils pay more than £125m a year placing vulnerable children in illegal care homes in England
Exclusive: Booming industry of businesses profit from shortage of beds for most at-risk children
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 03/09/2026
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Private equity owns 11 of England’s 20 biggest children’s care providers, research finds
Investigation comes amid growing calls for an end to ‘obscene’ profit-making in care sector
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 01/09/2026
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‘Alarm bells were going off’: parents tell of ordeal at Send school closed down after abuse allegations
Annette and Kevin Maxwell say children with special needs have become moneymaking tool for private companies
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Davenant 📸 @marcdavenant.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
‘I don’t usually give out advice or recipes, but you must let the person looking at the photograph go some of the way to finishing it. You should offer them a seed that will grow and open up their minds.’ - Robert Doisneau, Paris, 1987. Photo by Peter Adams. I agree wholeheartedly.
Photo of a man sitting at a table with a glass of wine
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Prem Sikka @premnsikka.bsky.social · 17/08/2026
Billionaire Google Co-Founder Pumps $102m To Oppose California Wealth Tax, 5% On Assets Above $1bn. Imagine if they did the same to fight poverty. All over the world, Super-rich buy politicians, collect subsidies, lax laws, dodge taxes, cause most pollution. It is People v the Super-Rich.
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Billionaire Google Co-Founder Pumps $102 Million Into Fighting California Wealth Tax | Common Dreams
"Sergey Brin would rather spend $100 million to fund a shady opposition campaign than simply pay his fair share in taxes so millions of Californians don’t lose their healthcare."
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
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Westminster council threatens Charing Cross soup kitchen with closure
Conservative authority says site is not safe for vulnerable people charity serves or general public
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A.K.B. @picalily.bsky.social · 07/08/2026
Farage sounds like he would like Victorian conditions with none of the benefits 😂
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the3million @the3million.bsky.social · 02/08/2026
Monique Hawkins, acting chief executive of the3million, said the impact of the Home Office’s retrospective review was devastating for many. "People applied to the EU settlement scheme in good faith...by building their lives in the UK and putting down roots." www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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EU citizens in UK get letters telling them post-Brexit residency rights were given ‘in error’
After years of building lives in UK, potentially hundreds of thousands of EU citizens are being told they have no right to remain
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 31/07/2026
Parents sue school over 'inhumane' calming rooms after BBC report
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Otto English @ottoenglish.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
When they started putting lead in petrol way back in the 1920s ... they KNEW that leaded petrol was lethal and that it would have unbelievable consequences on the environment and on people's health. But BIG OIL didn't give a frick and neither did its investors and they put lead in petrol. 1/3
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Dr. Evil Says Scientists (Mike Myers)
ALT: Dr. Evil Says Scientists (Mike Myers)
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 30/07/2026
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‘You have to sit quietly until you die’: The families failed by England’s social care system
Carers tell of their struggles to get loved ones the support they need, and the emotional and financial toll caring takes on their own lives
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 28/07/2026
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Families in London temporary housing told they cannot use in-built air conditioning
Exclusive: Two children taken to hospital during heatwaves after residents told units in glass-fronted block ‘not offered as amenity’
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 26/07/2026
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How the Met police spent £2.5m hiding spycop from former partner
Spycops inquiry has revealed how Helen Steel was secretly monitored in her search for undercover officer who deceived her into relationship
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 25/07/2026
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Existing care workers could be exempt from UK’s tough new immigration rules
Exclusive: Andy Burnham thought to be considering waiving stricter right to remain rules for people already working in the sector
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 23/07/2026
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Three speeches on a single day signaled a dying American democracy | Robert Shpiner
Stephen Miller warned of a leftwing ‘cancer’ threatening civilization. As a critical care doctor, I have a response to his diagnosis
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Peter Geoghegan @petergeoghegan.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
🔴 For the past year @lucasamin.bsky.social and I have been investigating Palantir in the UK What we found was a company with unrivalled political access, selling a product many data experts in the NHS don’t use, and don’t rate Please read and share democracyforsale.substack.com/p/its-just-a...
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"It's just a waste of time": inside Palantir's £330m NHS failure
Our new investigation reveals the problems with Palantir’s NHS tech - and the unrivalled political access that fuelled the firm’s march into the British state
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 14/07/2026
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‘We are dying little by little here’: asylum seekers at mercy of Home Office hotel closures
Legal challenges launched over accommodation ‘adequacy’ as UK government closes more asylum hotels
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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‘We plant belonging’: how nature charities and asylum seekers work together in UK countryside
Environmental and refugee groups have joined forces to benefit lives and wildlife in Wales and elsewhere
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 13/07/2026
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More than 16,000 refugees unable to reunite with families in UK, says Refugee Council
Suspension of family reunion route has left many stuck in conflict zones or using people smugglers to reach safety
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 10/07/2026
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This thinktank exposed fat cats and obscenely high pay. Guess what has happened to it? | Polly Toynbee
The High Pay Centre revealed the excesses of CEO wages. But then anti-diversity winds blew in from across the Atlantic, says Guardian columnist Polly Toynbee
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Paul Lewis @paullewismoney.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
Only the innocent pay bit.ly/3QY8Rpz the developers who built the flats with dangerous cladding and the freeholders who own the building fabric including the cladding have no liability. It is the leaseholders who just rent 100m^3. of space who must pay to replace it
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The forgotten cladding crisis: flat-owners facing £71,000 bills
Residents living in blocks under 11m have been left behind — until today, when government funding was announced. But who the £60m pot will go to is uncertain
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
ICYMI: We published Alex Piletska's breakdown of the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026, now making its way through Parliament. It's the fifth immigration-related Act in five sessions — and the draconian measures from last year's White Paper are now taking legislative form. Worth a close read.
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What’s in the Immigration and Asylum Bill 2026? - Free Movement
The Bill announced in the King’s Speech on 13 May 2026 has now been published and is beginning its slow passage through Parliament. It is the fifth
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 09/07/2026
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Less drugs, less care, less food: how aid cuts have hit Uganda’s 2m refugees
Africa’s largest refugee population has seen rations and healthcare slashed as funding levels drop
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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UK housebuilders have far too much power. Now a £4.5bn lawsuit could change that for good | Peter Apps
A legal case on behalf of some 700,000 people against the country’s biggest housebuilders could be a catalyst for much-needed industry reform, says Inside Housing’s Peter Apps
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 08/07/2026
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Disability benefits in England and Wales not fit for purpose, Timms review to find
Exclusive: Landmark review by disability minister will call for ‘dehumanising’ assessment system to be redrawn
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Caitlin Moran @mscaitlinmoran.bsky.social · 01/07/2026
Am 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
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 29/06/2026
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Doubling leave to remain timeframe for UK care workers ‘cruel’, say campaigners
Experts and activists back Mike Tapp’s proposal for care worker exclusion that led to row with Shabana Mahmood
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 27/06/2026
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At last, an economic policy we can all get behind – doubling the royal family’s funding | Marina Hyde
But with rumours about a certain workshy Windsor circulating this week, are we actually encouraging joblessness with an overly generous safety net, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Free Movement @freemovement.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
The new borders inspector's first report is scathing: asylum decision-making quality is dire, staff recruitment and training are terrible, and morale is rock bottom. We've looked at what this means for anyone navigating or advising on the asylum system right now.
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New borders inspector publishes damning report on quality of asylum casework - Free Movement
In his first report as the new Chief Inspector of Borders and Immigration, former Immigration Services Commissioner John Tuckett has heavily criticised the
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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 26/06/2026
At last, an economic policy we can all get behind – doubling the royal family’s funding | Marina Hyde
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At last, an economic policy we can all get behind – doubling the royal family’s funding | Marina Hyde
But with rumours about a certain workshy Windsor circulating this week, are we actually encouraging joblessness with an overly generous safety net, asks Guardian columnist Marina Hyde
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Asylum Matters @asylummatters.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
These harmful camps don't just fail refugees - they fail communities and taxpayers too. The cost of this cruelty is eye-watering. Instead of warehousing refugees in retraumatising military camps - house people in humane accommodation within communities. #CommunitiesNotCamps
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Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @london.gov.uk · 26/06/2026
This is remarkable.
Bar chart which shows y-axis running 0-8000, and x-axis showing years 2019 and 2024. For 2019, a light orange bar runs up to just over 6000, with a darker orange running up to 8000. For 2024, a green bar runs up to 4000, with a dark green running to about 5000. The text "40% lower" is on the lighter green bar. Text at the top of the graphic reads "Estimated air pollution deaths are down by around 40%. New analysis estimates deaths associated with air pollution in London reduced substantially between 2019 and 2024." Text at the bottom of the graphic reads "Note: darker shading shows estimated ranges. Data based on a comparison of estimated mortality burden using updated methods and a scenario-based analysis where only air pollution changes. Source: london.gov.uk/aqmortality". The Mayor of London logo sits in the bottom right-hand corner.
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Dan Sohege @danielsohege.bsky.social · 26/06/2026
@alfdubs.bsky.social remains one of the staunchest defendants of refugee rights. He is, as usual, absolutely correct here. I won't hold my breath, but Burnham should absolutely rip up Starmer and Mahmood's entire legacy of hostile immigration and asylum policies. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...
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Remove home secretary Mahmood and rip up her asylum plans, says Alf Dubs
Exclusive: Labour peer who fled Nazis as a child says Andy Burnham has chance to ‘correct mistakes’ on refugees
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Cerulean Man 🐝 🏳️‍🌈 🌹 🐶 @ceruleanman.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Here we are 11 years on from Kirkup's Morcambe Bay Report into perinatal deaths, 4 years after the Ockenden Shrewsbury & Telford perinatal deaths. Now Ockendon & Nottingham. Why has nothing changed? Why does the NHS kill mothers and babies? Its as simple as that. www.theguardian.com/society/live...
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Ockenden report live: largest maternity review in NHS history to be published
Senior midwife Donna Ockenden investigated stillbirths, neonatal and maternal deaths, and babies or mothers who suffered brain damage and other injuries
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Live News Reporting @livenewsreporting.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
Former midwife Donna Ockendon shares her thoughts on the maternity care review findings. Watch live: www.livenewsreporting.com/stream/fo…
Donna Ockendon speaking at a podium
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 24/06/2026
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More than 500 mothers and babies died or were harmed at ‘toxic’ Nottingham NHS trust, report finds
Ockenden inquiry finds ‘bullying’ and ‘cruel’, dismissive attitude to women contributed to avoidable deaths
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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‘Truly horrific’: the stories of five people affected by the NHS maternity scandal
Some see publication of the Nottingham report as a landmark moment, others as bittersweet and traumatic
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
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Report on Nottingham NHS maternity scandal to reveal ‘horrendous’ failings
Insider indicates Ockenden inquiry has uncovered appalling behaviour including racism toward mothers
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tonydailide.bsky.social @tonydailide.bsky.social · 20/06/2026
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How Refugee Week film festival brings migrants’ experience home
From one hostile environment to another, the documentaries and dramas ranging from Nigeria and Syria to British immigration give vivid life to an experience that can feel very remote
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