Charlotte Thompson grrrr
@charlottethompson.bsky.social
Pissed off elderly remainer.
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The fact you have to say "any compassionate employer" is the point. Not every employer is compassionate!
'Making grief contractual would be the death of common sense. Any compassionate employer would give a worker the time needed to recover from the loss of a close friend or family member' | ✍️ Martin Samuel
Making grief contractual would be the death of common sense
Any compassionate employer would give a worker the time needed to recover from the loss of a close friend or family member
www.thetimes.com
December 12, 2025 at 1:25 PM
The fact you have to say "any compassionate employer" is the point. Not every employer is compassionate!
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All the photography in this week's Economist Britain section is by Martin Parr
December 12, 2025 at 2:42 PM
All the photography in this week's Economist Britain section is by Martin Parr
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Growth, yes we want growth! We just don't want the essential workers needed to make that happen in case it upsets the bigots.
Latest monthly visa application figures are out.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
Skilled workers? Still dropping.
Health & care workers? Still dropping.
Slow clap.
December 11, 2025 at 9:24 PM
Growth, yes we want growth! We just don't want the essential workers needed to make that happen in case it upsets the bigots.
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Our information system is deeply broken.
I'm not going to lie. I find these numbers staggering. Why would you not? Is it not free for NHS frontline workers?
December 11, 2025 at 10:03 PM
Our information system is deeply broken.
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It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
December 12, 2025 at 3:40 AM
It's fitting that the cover on AI mindlessly apes an earlier creation and also displaces workers while elevating Silicon Valley plutocrats.
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Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
December 12, 2025 at 7:23 AM
Is the tide turning? New post on my Brexit & Brexitism Blog. Renewed talk of a customs union may well come to nothing, but rapidly changing geo-politics mean the UK needs urgently to face up to the failure of the entire Brexit ‘strategy’: chrisgreybrexitblog.blogspot.com/2025/12/is-t...
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Honored to win a British Journalism Award with @joesinft.ft.com for our investigative doc on Russia’s executions of Ukrainian POWs. Thanks to @pressgazette.co.uk for bringing light to this important issue. Russian forces are still executing Ukrainian troops — because as we showed, it’s state policy.
December 12, 2025 at 7:25 AM
Honored to win a British Journalism Award with @joesinft.ft.com for our investigative doc on Russia’s executions of Ukrainian POWs. Thanks to @pressgazette.co.uk for bringing light to this important issue. Russian forces are still executing Ukrainian troops — because as we showed, it’s state policy.
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I used to work for an American company and there was always the possibility of moving out there.
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
NEW: Five years of social media history is only a fraction of what the US Government will shortly demand of overseas visitors.
The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
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The full requirements will end tourism in the United States.
Below is the full, mind-blowing list.
🚨THEY. WANT. YOUR. DNA.🚨
1/
December 12, 2025 at 7:30 AM
I used to work for an American company and there was always the possibility of moving out there.
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
You honestly couldn't pay me enough to even try to visit there now
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Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
December 12, 2025 at 8:04 AM
Re-posting with alt text because the post accompanying this is obviously wrong, it's clearly a picture of a woman on a Crosscountry train having found a place to sit on the floor and read, her coffee cup beside her, folks queuing for the loo behind her
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I’d be willing to bet Richard Madeley is paid more in real terms than he was paid in 2008.
Richard Madeley "How realistic is it for any profession to expect to be paid in real terms what they were paid in 2008?"
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
The UK is the 6th largest economy in the world & the rich have never been richer, but Madeley thinks the rest of us should just accept being poorer #GMB
December 11, 2025 at 7:31 AM
I’d be willing to bet Richard Madeley is paid more in real terms than he was paid in 2008.
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Paul is right, there was very much an urge to Stick It to the Elites, which prevented reconciliation?
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Well that would have meant missing out on all the gloating
December 9, 2025 at 9:44 PM
Paul is right, there was very much an urge to Stick It to the Elites, which prevented reconciliation?
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Also I mean large parts of every British city in the 50s were literally bombsites
Liverpool's fine but the conditions in which the Beatles grew up in the 1950s were far more materially deprived than we think of as England today. Like, my dad is a decade younger, more middle-class, and he didn't live in a centrally heated house till his 20s.
Every shot of Liverpool makes it look like the most miserable place on earth. It seems cold and damp even in summer.
December 10, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Also I mean large parts of every British city in the 50s were literally bombsites
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The answer: 70-80% of social care workers in the UK were born here
December 10, 2025 at 4:43 PM
The answer: 70-80% of social care workers in the UK were born here
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I don't know about the overall politics but "Oh I don’t want to wipe someone's bum” is an astonishingly tactless thing for a politician to say, unbelievable really
This by @umakumaran.bsky.social is good - and a example of exactly how Labour should be taking on the Greens; on values, direct and on Labour territory. Taking them seriously.
Polanski’s snobbery exposes the Greens’ hollow populism - Labour’s Uma Kumaran
The Greens talk progress but Zack Polanski only delivers put-downs, says Labour MP for Stratford and Bow Uma Kumaran
www.standard.co.uk
December 10, 2025 at 4:28 PM
I don't know about the overall politics but "Oh I don’t want to wipe someone's bum” is an astonishingly tactless thing for a politician to say, unbelievable really
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"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:52 AM
"And tonight in 'Cutting off your nose to spite your face'...."
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The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.
Starmer urges Europe’s leaders to curb ECHR to halt rise of far right
Exclusive: PM calls for members of European convention on human rights to allow tougher action to protect borders
www.theguardian.com
December 10, 2025 at 6:43 AM
The thing I still can't forgive Corbyn for is the generational harm he caused by enabling Brexit. When Starmer is gone, hopefully soon, I will feel the same way about the profound harm he has caused by making it palatable for the Far Right to ditch human rights norms. It will be his shameful legacy.
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While focus is often solely on asylum, and small boat crossings in particular, it's important to remember that Labour's hostililty against all migrants is harming not only individuals, but the whole country, with an estimated loss of £10.8billion, and zero actual benefits.
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
Tighter visa rules will cost UK up to £10.8bn
Home Office assessment shows impact of latest changes to immigration regime over next five years
www.ft.com
December 10, 2025 at 8:05 AM
While focus is often solely on asylum, and small boat crossings in particular, it's important to remember that Labour's hostililty against all migrants is harming not only individuals, but the whole country, with an estimated loss of £10.8billion, and zero actual benefits.
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
www.ft.com/content/2b60...
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So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
This Is What a Digital Coup Looks Like | Carole Cadwalladr | TED
YouTube video by TED
www.youtube.com
December 9, 2025 at 10:29 PM
So today I found out that my TED talk ‘This is What a Digital Coup Looks Like’ was TED’s most watched talk of the year.
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
It’s sort of amazing & terrifying. Because this *is* what a digital coup looks like.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=TZOo...
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The interesting thing really is how few people have changed their minds? Like you'd expect the Settled Will of the public to solidify and people to come to terms with it. Apparently not?
I found this today (from Peter Kellner/YouGov) which answers part of your query.
December 9, 2025 at 9:28 PM
The interesting thing really is how few people have changed their minds? Like you'd expect the Settled Will of the public to solidify and people to come to terms with it. Apparently not?
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Reform is also more hostile to the institutional foundations of the European system
Interesting that the BBC will call National Rally "Far Right" (in an article about Bardella meeting Farage) - when they would never use that term for Reform. Their policies are very similar. If anything Reform's are more authoritarian.
December 9, 2025 at 11:11 PM
Reform is also more hostile to the institutional foundations of the European system
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I already accepted that I wouldn't be visiting the US any time soon. I'll survive.
December 10, 2025 at 6:45 AM
I already accepted that I wouldn't be visiting the US any time soon. I'll survive.
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"the balcony was added in the 1930s" www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
Forbidden love: Verona restricts access to Juliet’s balcony
Outraged tourists shouted ‘Shame!’ when officials worried about overcrowding cut numbers and began charging at the supposed setting of Shakespeare’s tragic play
www.thetimes.com
December 10, 2025 at 7:57 AM
"the balcony was added in the 1930s" www.thetimes.com/world/europe...
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Out of interest, I just checked my Facebook feed. I had to scroll through 86 posts before I saw one from someone I know. (shout out to @groomb.bsky.social whose post it was!)
My Facebook feed no longer has anything from people I know. Instead it's 99% AI slop videos of "trains floating on canal boats having accidents in which someone falls into the water". It's horrible, mainly because I can't stop watching them on repeat and the algorithm knows the darkness of my soul.
November 25, 2025 at 12:12 PM
Out of interest, I just checked my Facebook feed. I had to scroll through 86 posts before I saw one from someone I know. (shout out to @groomb.bsky.social whose post it was!)
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Seen in this light, the government's new immigration policy and rhetoric feels somewhat...lacking in humility
December 9, 2025 at 12:02 PM
Seen in this light, the government's new immigration policy and rhetoric feels somewhat...lacking in humility