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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 3h

“Over 13,000 people slept rough in London in 2024-25…
..on average at least one child in every classroom in London is homeless.”

The #Labour Party is a neoliberal authoritarian waste of space
As is Keir Starmer and his whole Cabinet

A leaked memo, a Maga-style hat and a trail of broken pledges – it’s Labour’s great housing betrayal | Aditya Chakrabortty

Ignore the bombast: Steve ‘build, baby, build’ Reed’s boast looks likely to end in targets more pathetic than they are now, says Guardian columnist Aditya Chakrabortty

www.theguardian.com

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 4h

With Trump cancelling US aid budgets the rest of the rich world should step up, not follow suit

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Jolyon Maugham KC @goodlawproject.org · 4h

Excuse me but, what the f*** is the point of targets to build homes that only the wealthy can afford? How does it help anyone who is not a property developer? And why does Labour care more about property developers than families? liveapp.inews.co.uk/category/398...

Leaked memo reveals Labour plan to slash affordable homes target

A requirement for developers to build affordable housing in London is set to be cut from 35% of new homes to 20%, in a move councils fear will spread across Britain

liveapp.inews.co.uk

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 4h

@cardiffcyclecity.bsky.social
@cardiffcouncil.bsky.social
Cardiff still has far too many 1m wide cycle lanes squashed into the edge of narrow car lanes along with the drains and slippy double yellow lines
They are dangerous for many reasons , more than having no lane marked at all

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RSPB Action @rspbaction.bsky.social · 4h

Thank you to supporters who’ve been campaigning for nature-friendly farming so far.

Your voices help keep this vital issue on the agenda.

Learn more about why backing farmers who protect nature matters so much 👇
www.rspb.org.uk/helping-natu...

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

The Polly Toynbee who told us to hold our noses & vote for Blair, then merrily joined in the political crucifixion of Corbyn?
The Toynbee who consistently produced opinion pieces implying NHS consultants were workshy & greedy when every review showed they worked way over contracted hours?
Sod off.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 22h

Sorry - Blackwells paperback edition!
(I’m in UK)
Political & media annihilation of the left has enabled it too - attitudes/values that were mainstream left are now labelled as radical left craziness
Same thing here with UK Labour Party - economically firmly neoliberal, & ever more authoritarian

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Andrew Cutting @andrewcutting.coe.int · 1d

The European Convention on Human Rights is being misrepresented in the UK, says former Supreme Court President Lady Hale👇

🔗 www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/home... via @the-independent.com

“It seems so short-sighted. I’m sorry, I’m really, really worried about it.”

#ECHR #OurRightsAndFreedoms

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

Sarah Kendzior wrote this in 2021
Pity not enough people listened to what she had to say
America going bad could sink the whole world

Sarah Kendzior @sarahkendzior.bsky.social · 3d

Www.hidinginplainsightbook.com

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Dr Seán DOOLAN 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 🇮🇪 @sdinpraxis.bsky.social · 1d

The slender-billed curlew was once thought to be fairly widespread. It was a migratory species that bred in central Asia and wintered in Europe, North Africa and the Middle East.

There have been no sightings since the mid-1990s. This month it's been declared officially extinct. ☹️

The Conversation UK @uk.theconversation.com · 2d

Why the loss of this species shines light on the global extinction crisis.

Slender-billed curlews are officially extinct – here’s why the loss of these migratory birds really matters

Why the loss of this species shines light on the global extinction crisis.

tcnv.link

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

And it literally does say admissions on your own website the link above takes us to

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 1d

Well say it out loud then

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

That isn’t what it says
Eg:
Asking to raise the admissions cap isn’t campaigning for a secular education system.
Pressing to shut down illegal schools isn’t a campaign for secular education system - that’s a safeguarding issue, & would need attention whatever was happening in the state sector

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

We know faith based education divides communities
We’ve an example of it from N. Ireland where segregation of Protestant & Catholic children from early childhood fed powerfully into sectarianism & strife
Having faith based Catholic, Protestant, Jewish, Muslim & etc schools is both daft & dangerous

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

Why not a campaign to end faith based state education??
So all state schools are secular

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

But yes please Reeves - raise taxes

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

The Polly Toynbee who told us to hold our noses & vote for Blair, then merrily joined in the political crucifixion of Corbyn?
The Toynbee who consistently produced opinion pieces implying NHS consultants were workshy & greedy when every review showed they worked way over contracted hours?
Sod off.

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anita72.bsky.social @anita72.bsky.social · 2d

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MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 2d

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

Brilliant

MariaevaJ (Formal Tribel) @mariaevaj.bsky.social · 2d

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

Here we go again

wienerholocaustlibrary.org/2021/02/09/p...

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

I rest my case

Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 2d

Should have used blue

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 3d

This is an incredibly powerful poem by Warsan Shire about why people seek asylum
No one ever really wants to leave their home
“No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land.”

From Home by Warsan Shire
No one leaves home unless home is the mouth of a shark. You only run for the border when you see the whole city running as well. The boy you went to school with, who kissed you dizzy behind the old tin factory, is holding a gun bigger than his body. You only leave home when home won't let you stay.
No one would leave home unless home chased you. It's not something you ever thought about doing, so when you did, you carried the anthem under your breath, waiting until the airport toilet to tear up the passport and swallow, each mournful mouthful making it clear you would not be going back.
No one puts their children in a boat, unless the water is safer than the land. No one would choose days and nights in the stomach of a truck, unless the miles travelled meant something more than journey ...
No one would leave home unless home chased you to the shore. No one would leave home until home is a voice in your ear saying - leave, run, now. I don't know what I've become.

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Môr Leidr @bartiddu.bsky.social · 4d

Hahahaha