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The Guardian @theguardian.com · 1d

Majority of family court cases in England and Wales feature domestic abuse, watchdog says

Commissioner’s review found 87% of cases uncovered physical, psychological or sexual abuse of a family member Nearly 90% of cases before the family courts in England and Wales show evidence of domestic abuse, a watchdog has disclosed. Physical, psychological or sexual abuse of a member of the family or household was uncovered in 87% of cases, according to a review ordered by the domestic abuse commissioner, Nicole Jacobs. Continue reading...

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 1d

Open another tab…why not open another tab……you will surely not regret Opening Another Tab

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Postcard From The Past @pastpostcard.bsky.social · 4d

I know what he means about dying a thousand deaths.

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 4d

Y’all mind if the bean has a little sauce

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 5d

The crew of the increasingly desperate Franklin expedition, frozen in the Arctic with dwindling hopes of survival: Is God here captain? Is any God?

The cruel Tuunbaq, mercilessly stalking the ice for its prey:

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 9d

An astronaut, looking at the Earth: “Wait, it’s all social care obligations?”
Behind them, another astronaut, drawing a gun to shoot them in the back: “Always has been.”

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 8d

(Credit where credit is due - I pinched this off Reddit www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal...)

God bless France

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 8d

It’s happened again

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John Oxley @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk · 11d

The "lanyard class" should almost always be parsed as an attack on women who work, and the enforcement of norms that make workplaces better for them.

George Monbiot @georgemonbiot.bsky.social · 11d

This is his repeated attacks on what he calls the "lanyard class". Who are the terrible people who wear lanyards? Doctors & nurses, care workers, teachers, managers, administrators, secretaries. The people who hold society together, who keep everything running, who do the jobs he wouldn't stoop to.

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Owen Winter @owenwntr.bsky.social · 24d

Keep seeing the meme (in response to @timharford.ft.com) that White British Londoners are no less anti-immigration than the rest of the country, they are just "outnumbered". It's not true:

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 24d

ban the box. No more screen time if we are to be so tasteless

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · 26d

Fri is 50yrs since Fawlty Towers first aired. To mark the occasion we asked Brits: what is your favourite sitcom?

1. Friends
2. Only Fools & Horses
3. Big Bang Theory
=4. Gavin and Stacey
=4. Fawlty Towers
=4. The Office
=4. Modern Family
=4. Not Going Out

Full list: yougov.co.uk/entertainmen...

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 26d

Wearing Docs for the first time this autumn, walking like I’m doing through Monster Mash

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Renewal @renewaljournal.bsky.social · 28d

NEW ISSUE: Renewal Vol. 33 No. 2

Published amidst far-right mobilisation and a Reform surge, the new issue of Renewal (guest co-edited by @sachahilhorst.bsky.social) features activists, journalists, and academics analysing the radical right threat and debating how social democrats can respond

Volume 33, Issue 2

A quarterly journal of politics and ideas, committed to exploring and expanding the radical potential of social democracy.

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 29d

www.newstatesman.com/politics/202...

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 29d

Disagree w her on plenty but the contempt for Diane Abbott demonstrated by a seemingly endless number of far lesser people than her is a long-running source of shame for Labour. A canker at the core of the party & emblematic of the underhanded way this clique have sought to run things

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 29d

Main concern obviously the vile content of these messages but someone whose entire role was contingent on intelligent decision-making opting to send this stuff on a work server says rather a lot about the calibre of people at the top of gov right now. If he’s the ‘best brain’ no wonder we’re cooked.

Jessica Elgot @jessicaelgot.bsky.social · 29d

Whatever you think of these messages, the reality is this story and Paul Ovenden's subsequent resignation has provoked pure fury from long-serving Labour aides. Many saying they do not believe Starmer should have accepted his resignation.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

Senior Starmer adviser quits over offensive Diane Abbott messages

Departure of political strategy director Paul Ovenden is yet another setback for PM after Mandelson and Rayner exits

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · 29d

Good day for the markets?

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · Sep 13

Periodically opening Strava to give kudos to everyone on my feed like an indulgent but distant patriarch

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Lottie @sellottie.bsky.social · Sep 11

Walking into Cable Cafe with a towel round my shoulders like Rocky

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 10

For both normative and 'it makes my job so much harder' reasons, I really think governments shouldn't appoint people where it is really hard to stretch out commentary on what they have done beyond 'obviously he has to resign'.