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Chaminda Jayanetti

@cjayanetti.bsky.social

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Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist. I like good things and I don't like bad things.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 9d

Labour MPs who voted against welfare cuts this summer have warned that plans to change disability benefit assessments could trigger another mass rebellion

Others called for a vote to be delayed until a review into the assessments is complete

By me, for Big Issue: www.bigissue.com/news/social-...

Labour faces another mass rebellion over reforms to universal credit

Welfare secretary Pat McFadden plans further reforms to the benefits system, expected to include abolishing the work capability assessment.

www.bigissue.com

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Sunder Katwala (sundersays) @sundersays.bsky.social · 1h

From Robert Jenrick's video - in which he did not see a single other white face on a brief trip to Birmingham, despite his video showing that he did.

"He must have been walking around Handsworth with his eyes closed" writes Dan Cave

www.birminghamdispatch.co.uk/a-notorious-...

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Lizzie Dearden @lizziedearden.bsky.social · 2h

If you wondered why Nigel Farage turned up in US Congress in September speaking about "freedom of speech", this story has the answer

His appearance was orchestrated by a powerful American anti-abortion group that is trying to increase its influence in the UK by influencing the free speech debate

Jane Bradley @bradleyjane.bsky.social · 5h

NEW: How a U.S. anti-abortion group has quietly positioned itself as a powerbroker between the Trump administration and Nigel Farage’s Reform UK.

Latest investigation w Elizabeth Dias.
www.nytimes.com/2025/10/13/w...

They Helped Topple Roe v. Wade. Now Their Sights Are Set on Britain.

www.nytimes.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1h

Interesting thing with this piece is that while she flags the VAT rise, her main issue actually seems to be the added costs imposed by the private school itself

Also, with "high net worth" individuals complaining about costs, my first reaction is that I want to see where their money goes

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 1h

"one of the few high profile people" lmao (a) there's loads of them but (b) you like him because he's a cunt and you like a cunt if he's your cunt

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Stephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 1h

Today's newsletter, on the implicit and explicit promises that Labour made and now must choose between breaking:

Which promise should Labour break?

To fix spending problems the UK needs to raise taxes on median earners

www.ft.com

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 2h

oh has he finally been cancelled? would have been nice if the rabid anti-Semitism had done it but we'll take the win

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Emily ✨🎃 @emilyoram.bsky.social · 4h

Good morning, somehow this has only just come up on my instagram but it’s well worth 30 seconds of your time.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 10h

don't make me set Alan Beattie on you

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

just to see what happens.

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

actually get Mr Beast to hold a citizens assembly on which 10 million people we're kind of chill with killing

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

oh btw I think that old Wikipedia football quiz has now turned up as a daily quiz on the Guardian app (which I don't actually have)

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

and then end up concluding that exterminating people is good actually

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

usually by *carefully* choosing which experts "guide" them. but I'm not sure what would happen in this era of Grey Insanes

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

lol. I think their broad-based selection criteria guards against that, but ofc in reality they're often promoted as a thinly-veiled way to gain some sort of political cover for predetermined progressive ends...

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

I'm just like... you absolutely do not need to study philosophy to understand the most basic morality to apply in your day to day life or career. just, like, don't be a dick.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

who are the most prominent philosophers alive today? Jordan Peterson? Slavoj Zizek? Whatever apologias Noam Chomsky's dribbling out? cmon guys this is worse than modern jazz

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

same same

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

"he flagellates himself with the dildo of self-loathing"

here's an AI image that we actually do need

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

yeah it's absolute inadequacy and self-hatred

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

all the more reason to Khmer their asses

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

I don't know what my Falling Down moment will be but my Pol Pot moment will be philosophy degrees

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 13h

lmao of course he was

brasidas @brasidas.bsky.social · 19h

Anyone who claims that Silicon Valley would be better with more humanities education has to grapple with the fact that Peter Thiel was a philosophy major.

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Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

I'll have you know I no longer post animal genitals (ran out of good ones)

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

shaking their heads so people know they don't agree with it

Chaminda Jayanetti @cjayanetti.bsky.social · 15h

it'll be you who unexpectedly rediscovers it months from now when you look back through your saves, not me...

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