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The heart of all the strange happenings. History, left-wing politics, Doctor Who ✨ Edinburgh, Scotland. They/them. Anti-AI. I don't (knowingly) repost or follow anyone who uses it.

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Association for Scottish Literature @asls.org.uk · 17/06/2025
Brown burn water dropping Between the grey stones, The lapse and the murmur, The bright overtones Of cuckoo and curlew… —Dorothy Margaret Paulin (1904–1982) from Springtime by Loch Ken, & other poems (J.H. Maxwell Ltd., 1963) #poem #poetry www.scottishpoetrylibrary.org.uk/poem/gallowa...
A Galloway Burn in June
Dorothy Margaret Paulin

Brown burn water dropping
Between the grey stones,
The lapse and the murmur,
The bright overtones
Of cuckoo and curlew
And faraway trill
Of a lark; great blue shadows
Stride over the hill:
Breeze and bird-call are blended
With murmur of bees;
Sun and wind stroke the grasses
And finger the trees.
Is it sunlight or greenlight?
This shimmer of leaves;
Is it seeing or dreaming,
The dapple that weaves
Across the brown water
That murmurs and spills
Through the grey stones forever
Among the green hills?
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 11/06/2025
A groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiences German investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online. www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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A groundbreaking documentary on ME/CFS is now available to international audiences
German investigative documentary on ME/CFS, Chronically Ill – Chronically Ignored, is now available for international audiences online.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 09/06/2025
A young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cuts Gigi, a resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency, just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money' www.thecanary.co/uk/news/2025...
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A young disabled person just shamed Treasury secretary Darren Jones over DWP PIP cuts
A young, disabled resident of Treasury secretary Darren Jones's Bristol constituency just took him to task over calling DWP PIP 'pocket money'
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Dutchscientist (the real one) @dutchscientist.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Publish more of this transphobic garbage from this bigoted "journalist" and keep on wondering why you have to keep begging for money on every webpage.
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Dr. Ceallaigh S. MacCath-Moran @csmaccath.com · 31/05/2025
Free to download from the publisher until June 13th. Grab it while you can, #AcademicSky!
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Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
Cambridge Core - European Studies - Natural and Supernatural in Early Medieval England
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Dr Ella Hawkins @ellamchawk.bsky.social · 29/05/2025
Today is National Biscuit Day, and it’s about time that I populated this account with biscuit (cookie) sets from the past few years. Here are some of my favourites. 🧵 First up, a set inspired by the delicious designs of William Morris and John Henry Dearle.
A set of eight rectangular cookies arranged on a square white plate against a dark wooden background. Each cookie is inspired by a wallpaper design by Morris & Co. The patterns represented feature different floral and leaf shapes in shades of baby blue, soft pink, leafy green, mustard yellow, cream, and dark grey.
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EuropeanPowell @europeanpowell.bsky.social · 26/05/2025
BlackRock’s corporate creep just hit a new low. They’re suing UnitedHealth in the US for giving “too much care” to patients after the CEO’s murder—because it hurt their profits. Thread
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Effin' Birds @effinbirds.com · 24/05/2025
A painting of a bird next to the words "did you think I would just forget about all that shit you did?"
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Stop Funding Heat @stopfundingheat.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
This week it was announced that the UK's Daily Telegraph - which is notorious for publishing climate science denial & climate misinformation - will be sold to Redbird Capital, a company which has invested millions in fossil fuels... www.theguardian.com/media/2025/m... /1
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Consortium led by RedBird Capital agrees to buy Telegraph for £500m
Deal with US private equity company will end two years of uncertainty over future of titles
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Lorna @florilegia.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
I’ve just finished @goingmedieval.bsky.social’s excellent The Once and Future Sex, and I’m here to recommend it to you all: it’s engaging, interesting, and the final chapter is a call to recognise and challenge the patriarchal structures around us. This passage particularly resonated with me:
To tell ourselves that we are the newly liberated, women-respect-ing heroes is to ignore millennia of women who got up, did their jobs, took care of their kids, and were every bit as engaged in and integral to society as men were.
We obfuscate these women and their history if we tell a story about ourselves rather than the past. The stories that we tell about the history of women and work, like those about beauty standards and sex, show us in the best possible light but often have very little to do with history. If we are to confront these false narratives, we first have to make room in our minds for the factual story of women and work. Only then can we begin to understand why our narrative differs so much from the reality, and what we are avoiding when we write it.
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Mark Pickens @airshipwriter.bsky.social · 24/05/2025
Trying to make it illegal to stop fracking, and therefore our environment will continue to degrade, oh and don’t forget the water crisis that fracking causes. Oppose this bill. Sign and share resist.bot/petitions/PT...
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Vote NO on H.R. 26
Text SIGN PTBXLE to 50409 to send this to your officials.
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Clive Lewis MP @labourlewis.bsky.social · 19/05/2025
1/2 Cuts to support for disabled and long-term sick people would be devastating and are absolutely wrong on their own terms. But their effect is more pernicious than that, as I explain in this excerpt from a speech I gave to an anti-disability benefits cuts demo in Norwich recently.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
BREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zero Liz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie. @rachelcdailey.bsky.social has the story www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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BREAKING: new DWP figures show PIP fraud is still virtually zero
Liz Kendall thinks people are 'taking the mickey' out of the DWP - but once again, her own figures on PIP show this is a lie
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Labour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate. 75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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Labour MP raises the epidemic of male suicide. Here's how Finland halved its rate.
75% of UK people who die by suicide are men. But in Finland, the country halved its suicide rate through a national strategy
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monaco @blandsoft.net · 14/05/2025
pretty cheeky to try to conflate the Labour Party with the labour movement, which hasn't been meaningfully represented by the party in a long, long time
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Withywindle @withywindle.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
Their obsession with this tactic fascinates me. I'm in a left-leaning constituency and in 2019 I got an "Only Labour can stop the SNP" leaflet through the door, when a week earlier I'd got the SNP leaflet that - unlike Labour's - promised an opposition to austerity. Why would I want to stop that?
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Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Labour Right sabotaged every general election since Miliband. They didn't want to be in government. That's partly why we had Tories for 14 years. When Cameron won again in 2015, he was really surprised. He quit soon after the Brexit vote.
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
A few years ago, Keir Starmer suggested Jeremy Corbyn wasn't pro-immigration enough. Now Starmer sounds like Enoch Powell. The most dishonest frontline politician in UK democratic history 👇 www.owenjones.news/p/starmers-e...
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Starmer's Enoch Powell impression shows he's the most dishonest politician in our history
Compare to what Keir Starmer was saying just a few years ago
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Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Whoa! Starmer has lost the centrists! Ian Dunt has turned on Starmer! 😮 We need an official investigation. Everything, money, influence, media. How did Mr People's Vote become no rejoin? How did Mr Socialist I Support Corbyn become Mr Fascist I Will Compete With Tories for Reform voters?
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Rose Schmits @roseschmits.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Finally got around to writing to my mp
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Stop Propaganda/Hype News - Redress the Balance @stoppropagandahype.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
In the early 80s the SDP Liberal Alliance was at 50% in the polls. But the media didn’t spend day after day saying Roy Jenkins or David Steel were certain to walk into no.10. That’s the difference now. Propaganda on an industrial scale. Sign the petition petition.parliament.uk/petitions/71...
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Petition: Ensure plurality of political coverage across UK broadcast media at all times
We want to ensure that a plurality of views from all political parties in Westminster are represented and the nations parliaments are heard all year round, not just election times. The rules for cover...
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Dr Robert Bohan @robertbohan.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Are you a scientist or other relevant academically qualified expert? Please join other experts & sign this letter confirming the fact that sex is not binary, to the UK Minister for Women & Equalities ▪️Please repost so everyone is aware & share with any expert you know:
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Biology is not binary: a letter from biologists, doctors, and other experts to Bridget Phillipson, Minister for Women and Equalities
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Amy Rae Hill @amyraehill.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Oh! And another neat tool I love to share is Kiln Share. If you don't have your own kiln you can locate individuals in your area who rent them out
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Kiln Share – Kiln Rental Near Me
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Owen Jones @owenjones.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
Keir Starmer is primarily known for two things - kicking pensioners and disabled people. Absent of any vision for the country, he's paving the way for Nigel Farage to end up in No. 10. New post: www.owenjones.news/p/labour-hea...
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British Fantasy Society @britfantasysoc.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
David and Robin are joined by the very insightful and entertaining @justinleeanderson.com to discuss his wealth of experience of the publishing industry, providing great insight on various topics, in particular treatments of Politics and Religion in SFF longstoryshortbfs.podbean.com/e/long-story...
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Long Story Short Ep-3: Politics & Religion in SFF with Justin Lee Anderson | Long Story Short: The Official Podcast of The British Fantasy Society
David and Robin are joined by the very insightful and entertaining Justin Lee Anderson - author of the Eidyn Saga - to discuss his wealth of experience of the publishing industry, providing great insi...
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 22/04/2025
This statement about the transphobic Supreme Court ruling by the UK's Crab Museum (yes a museum about crabs) is better than 99% of the statements I've seen on the topic www.crabmuseum.org/visit 🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀🦀
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Rhianna Pratchett @rhi.bsky.social · 21/04/2025
There are loads of great items from genre creators to bid on. And the auction is organised by the wonderful @laurenbeukes.com and @ngjeannette.bsky.social. Please get bidding! www.32auctions.com/genrefortran...
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Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA
Silent auction 'Genre Creators for Trans Rights in the UK and SA' hosted online at 32auctions.
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Ungagged! @ungagged.bsky.social · 20/04/2025
"Local" Facebook Pages are not always as local as they pretend... some are set up by actors with goals further afield- goals that need angry locals all over Scotland and beyond. Eilidh McIntosh investigates one such page in Clackmannanshire... leftungagged.org/2025/04/19/c...
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A Transparent Attempt to Undermine Public Trust
Eilidh McIntosh - I do this sort of thing in my spare time, but it’s usually far-right botnets originating in Russia or the United States.
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Frances Ryan @francesryan.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
“Disabled women are seen as statistics and stereotypes – reduced entirely to our disabilities, or robbed of the dignity of being believed we have one.” I wrote about Britain’s growing cohort of disabled women and why we need to change the narrative. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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The face of British disability is increasingly young and female. It's time to hear from them | Frances Ryan
My book about disabled women grew in relevance as I wrote it, exposing the heartlessness of proposed harsh benefit cuts, says Guardian columnist Frances Ryan
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Sane Lunatic @sanelunatic.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
"Let other secret societies take the skilled, the hopeful, the self-confident. He'd take the whining resentful ones, the ones with a bellyful of spite and bile, the ones in which venom and vindictiveness were dammed up behind thin walls of ineptitude and paranoia." - Terry Pratchett: "Guards Guards"
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 17/04/2025
The DWP PIP survey on how people spend their money is being sent out. Here's what's in it. For once the rumours are actually true: the DWP survey on how people spend their PIP is arriving in the post. In short: tell them to Fuck Off. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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The DWP PIP survey on how people spend their money is being sent out. Here's what's in it.
For once the rumours are actually true: the DWP survey on how people spend their PIP is arriving in the post. In short: tell them to F Off.
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Kat Tenbarge @kattenbarge.bsky.social · 16/04/2025
Stop making those little AI image generator memes of yourself as a Barbie or a Ghibli character you are enriching evil companies and destroying the planet and this is like one of the easiest things you can just not do
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Matt Mason - One Chaotic Author @chaoticauthor.online · 15/04/2025
Coming this June... Inspired by British 1970s TV horror, Sapphire & Steel, A Ghost Story for Christmas, and creepy Doctor Who stories of the era. The Residents of James Hotel is my latest spine-tingling novelette. 🌈🖤🩶🤍💜 demi rep 🌈📚💙📚👀📢📚😱🩸📚
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Long Covid Advocacy @longcovidadvoc.com · 15/04/2025
📚Suzanne O'Sullivan in her new book 'The Age of Diagnosis' has claimed that Long Covid is psychosomatic There has been ALOT of media attention on this 👉Our contribution on the tropes, techniques & tricks used... www.longcovidadvoc.com/post/the-suz...
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The Suzanne O'Sullivan Show:The Age of Celebrity: Sickeness, Health and Why Doctors Have Gone Too Far
They will tell you that it’s progressive, groundbreaking, science pioneering into unventured territory...
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
The DWP is facing a 'Disability Rebellion' - and it's starting online Disability Rebellion is a brand new inclusive online group gearing up to take on Labour's brutal disability benefit cuts www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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The DWP is facing a 'Disability Rebellion' - and its starting online
Disability Rebellion is a brand new inclusive online group gearing up to take on Labour's brutal disability DWP benefit cuts.
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Ed Poole @edpoole1975.bsky.social · 15/04/2025
It's been confirmed (by their website) that they are trying to do this. So if you are a Green member please find out about your local candidates and support and ask others to support pro Trans rights candidates.
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Scott Santens @scottsantens.com · 13/04/2025
"There is strong evidence of a causal association between growing inequality and the rise of populist authoritarian movements... The one thing that can stop the rise of the far right is the one thing mainstream parties are currently not prepared to deliver: greater equality." TAX WEALTH. DO UBI.
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Rightwing populists will keep winning until we grasp this truth about human nature | George Monbiot
Economic inequality breeds resentment and a desire to get even. That’s what fuels support for even incompetent regimes, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Gentle Wolf @gentlewolf81.bsky.social · 13/04/2025
"The Left wanted to help vulnerable people, and we want to abuse those people." That's what I've seen from right wingers, in my lifetime. Everything else they claimed to stand for has been a lie.
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Katy Montgomerie 🦗 @katymontgomerie.com · 13/04/2025
Also if the left allegedly going too far pushed you to support the right, how much further does the right have to go before they push you to the left, and why hasn't it happened yet?
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Al Jazeera English @aljazeera.com · 13/04/2025
Al Jazeera English TikTok is nominated for Webby awards in the Social - News & Politics category. We need your help to win! Vote for us here ➡️ vote.webbyawards.com/PublicVoting...
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Babs 🩵🐝⌛️🦋🔻 @babs05.bsky.social · 11/04/2025
Labour tried to push through #WelfareCuts bypassing consultation. So now it's going to court. Three firms of solicitors working with disabled people on possible benefit cuts legal cases www.disabilitynewsservice.com/three-firms-... via @johnpring.bsky.social on Twitter x.com/johnpringdns...
Disability News Service
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Three firms of solicitors working with disabled people on possible benefit cuts legal cases
@Dis_PPL_Protest
 @DisRightsUK
 @PublicLawProjct
 @LeighDay_Law
 @BhattMurphy
 @GMCDP
A man with two walking sticks walks in front of a crowd of protesters, with one holding a placard saying 'PIP fraud rates 0% cuts kill'
From disabilitynewsservice.com
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Lyndsey @lyndseydoob.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
UK petitione: Please sign to ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship petition.parliament.uk/petitions/70...
petition.parliament.uk
Petition: Ban fossil fuel advertising and sponsorship
Advertisements encourage the use of products and sponsorship promotes a positive reputation & creates a social licence of trust & acceptability. In 2003 a ban on all tobacco advertising was introduced...
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Covid Action Scotland @covidactionscot.bsky.social · 10/04/2025
Please sign and share this petition: campaigns.scope.org.uk/page/165719/...
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Add your name 📢
Cuts to disability benefits would be catastrophic
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Bodega Cats @bodegacats.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
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Folklore Twitcher @folkloretwitcher.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
9th April #NationalUnicornDay The Lady and the Unicorn is a series of six tapestries, woven in Flanders, using designs created in Paris in 1500. Now on display in the Musée national du Moyen Âge, Paris. Five of the tapestries are said to represent the senses–taste, hearing, sight, smell and touch.
The Dame à la licorne room of the Musée national du Moyen Âge (former Musée de Cluny) - a group of onlookers in a circular lit room featuring the Lady and the Unicorn Tapestries that have been hung side by side.
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The Canary @thecanaryuk.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
A disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts Disabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, PLEASE sign and share this petition. www.thecanary.co/uk/analysis/...
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A disabled person from Liz Kendall's constituency has launched a petition against her brutal DWP cuts
Disabled people who cannot work should not have their DWP benefits cut - yet this is exactly what Labour is doing. So, sign the petition.
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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 08/04/2025
The unkindest cut: what PIP changes mean for torture survivors Torture survivors seeking safety in the UK risk losing vital support due to government plans to restrict disability benefits By Jennie Kermode for @yorkshirebylines.co.uk
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The unkindest cut: what PIP changes mean for torture survivors
Torture survivors seeking safety in the UK risk losing vital support due to government plans to restrict disability benefits
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