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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · 1d

I wrote something for Time Magazine (that sounds so cool) on why the Government needs to get out of its defensive crouch quickly time.com/7326397/uk-s...

Britain's Keir Starmer Is Running Out of Time

The Labour government must start being bold and delivering quickly or it will keep haemorrhaging support, writes Anand Menon.

time.com

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Tim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 4d

Am sending this to Mrs Tim, who (possibly because she's the most voracious reader of fiction I've ever met) would, I know, revert back to "chaotic evil" in a heartbeat were I ever to relax my eternal vigilance.

Jane @localnotail.bsky.social · 8d

Chaotic evil!

*librarian hard stare*

Bookmark alignment chart meme

lawful good = book ribbon
neutral good = sentence pointer book strap
chaotic good = scrap paper, receipts

lawful neutral = e-book
true neutral = proper bookmark
chaotic neutral = use a plant leaf

lawful evil = memorising the page number
neutral evil = leaving the book face down
chaotic evil = dog ear (page corner turned over)

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Tom Clark @tom-clark.bsky.social · 6d

In one crisp para — & the 2 charts he highlights — @chrisgiles.ft.com bursts a huge number of “welfare” myths www.ft.com/content/ee67...

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 14d

The Bishop of Birmingham has written to the Shadow Justice Secretary Robert Jenrick about his comments about Handsworth

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Omar Khan @omaromalleykhan.bsky.social · 14d

I know statistics are poorly understood and are misused. But facts matter

Between the 1991, 2001, 2011 and 2021 Census *every* ethnic group in the UK has become *less* geographically segregated and *all* groups, majority and minorities, are more likely to interact with people not like them

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Social Work History Network @socwkhistory.bsky.social · 21d

This day in social work history ⏳

30th September 2013: Olive Stevenson, social worker and academic, died. Stevenson was part of Maria Colwell inquiry, and was a founding editor of @BJofSW. See @CommunityCare recent tribute: www.communitycare.co.uk/2024/08/07/a...

'A true doyen of social work': the life and influence of Olive Stevenson - Community Care

Professors David Howe, June Thoburn and Ray Jones reflect on Olive Stevenson's influence on the social work sector and their careers.

www.communitycare.co.uk

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · Sep 15

My column in tomorrow's paper:

Starmer and Badenoch are handling the far-right march all wrong

A look back to the days of Enoch Powell suggests a better model

www.ft.com

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Alex Andreou @sturdyalex.bsky.social · Sep 11

I need you to understand what this country feels like right now for those of us who look different. I'm sitting here, trying to plan for Saturday, make sure I don't even need to go to the corner shop for milk, like it's Christmas Day or lockdown. Why? Because I live near where Yaxley-Lennon will 1/

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Carl Purcell @carlpurcell.bsky.social · Sep 4

I think it’ll also turn off many of the lifelong Labour voters they want to attract

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Anand Menon @anandmenon.bsky.social · Sep 1

The Government is doing its best at the moment to imply it has no problem with the ethnonationalism now rearing its ugly head. And I don't understand why. 1/5

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National Children's Bureau @ncb.org.uk · Aug 27

We've been made aware that some people taking part in racist protests targeting asylum seekers, refugees and migrants also claim to be working with us: this is false and we are appalled at the use of our name to promote something so completely at odds with our values.
Our statement: buff.ly/coxyenv

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Craig Calcaterra @craigcalcaterra.bsky.social · Aug 26

I’ve said it before but reading all the medieval history books I’ve been reading lately has been so comforting. Makes you realize that there have always been mad and incompetent kings and they almost always die in ignominy and everyone piles shit on them for centuries after they’re gone.

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James Ball @jamesrball.com · Aug 26

It’s incredibly notable today that Labour doesn’t want to say anything against the *aim* of Farage’s policies.

But: where has the government been all summer? Was there even an *attempt* to push any other political stories? Farage and the online right had a totally clear stage for immigration.

Sam Freedman @samfr.bsky.social · Aug 26

Two points worth noting on the Farage stuff today.

1. The Tories have completely ceded the August opportunity to get publicity when govt slows down to Reform. Nothing to suggest they're not headed fast towards oblivion.

2. Labour look even more lost than before. Paralysed with indecision and fear.

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Sathnam Sanghera @sathnam.bsky.social · Aug 26

"Are asylum seekers the biggest political issue in Britain?" Asks radio 4. "We interview man who is determined to make it the biggest issue in Britain. And make it a headline every morning until it definitely is"

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Jonathan Portes @jdportes.bsky.social · Aug 26

Very important work by @lgilbert.co comprehensively dissecting and demolishing the myth spread by politicians and "thinktanks" that recent migrants are likely to be a drain on public finances.

www.laurenpolicy.com/p/are-recent...

Are recent immigrants a "ticking time bomb" for British public finances?

At a few recent policy events, I keep hearing that dependents on visas are a Problem.

www.laurenpolicy.com

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Aug 26

Reform UK, which has a grand total of four MPs, was just given an uninterrupted platform for an hour and a half on the BBC and Sky News channels, in order to talk about its plans for mass deportations

When was the last time the Greens (with four MPs) or the Lib Dems (with 72) were given the same?

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Carl Purcell @carlpurcell.bsky.social · Jul 28

We’re not racist but…

Carl Purcell @carlpurcell.bsky.social · Jul 14

They told me everyone was on strike in the 1970s

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Adam Bienkov @adambienkov.bsky.social · Jun 19

There may come a day when the BBC puts on air one of the other 29,999 headteachers currently estimated to be working in UK schools, but that day is not today

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Beth Humphreys 🌺 @producrgrl.bsky.social · Jun 18

#handsoff
#nokings
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Carl Purcell @carlpurcell.bsky.social · May 22

Our reflections on several decades of regulatory reform that have aimed to address failings in the provision of care for children and young people and develop the children's residential care workforce @hscwru.bsky.social
www.celcis.org/application/...

www.celcis.org

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Carl Purcell @carlpurcell.bsky.social · May 7

Get on with ‘fixing’ social care this year. How?

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Social Work History Network @socwkhistory.bsky.social · Apr 15

This day in social work history ⏳

15th April 1912 - Campaigner Barbara Robb born in Yorkshire. Robb campaigned for rights of older people, was a founder of AGEIS, and editor of Sans Everything: A Case to Answer (1967), that included chapters and input from social workers.

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Parody Keir Starmer @parodypm.bsky.social · Apr 13

Nigel Farage thinks it's OK for him to earn £571,585 in six months from 'second jobs', but tells Laura Kuenssberg that public sector staff should not be allowed to work from home.
#BBCLauraK

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jamelle @jamellebouie.net · Apr 8

if you want to bring back the prosperity* and security of mid-century american life then you need high rates of unionization, a generous social insurance state, and widespread, freely available education. www.msnbc.com/opinion/msnb...

Opinion | The manufactured nostalgia of Trump’s tariffs

Those who credit manufacturing jobs for a glorious past America mistake correlation for causation.

www.msnbc.com

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